Monday 18 June 2012

Diabetes Week 2012: New diabetes risk check service launched in ... - AboutMyArea


AboutMyArea


Diabetes Week 2012: New diabetes risk check service launched in ...
AboutMyArea
The service, which is provided by Northamptonshire Healthcare NHS Foundation ... health services for the county from NHS Northamptonshire from 1 April 2013.

Northampton Chronicle and Echo

Ten Northampton General Hospital staff left with £790k pay-off - Northampton Chronicle & Echo


Northampton Chronicle & Echo


Ten Northampton General Hospital staff left with £790k pay-off
Northampton Chronicle & Echo
Ten members of staff have been given average pay-offs of £79000 each after they were made redundant by Northampton General Hospital. Northampton Chronicle and Echo

New recommendations on public health funding published

New recommendations on public health funding published:
For the first time, from 2013, public health funding will be ring fenced and protected with local authorities taking the lead for improving health. This will help to drive up local efforts to maintain and improve the public’s health and wellbeing.
The Department of Health has committed to ensure that no local authority will lose out under the new grants for 2013/14. So local areas will either receive equivalent funding or be better off under the new funding arrangements. NHS Networks

Consultation deadline extended on proposals to secure shared decision-making

Consultation deadline extended on proposals to secure shared decision-making:
The consultation on detailed proposals to secure shared decision-making and choice for patients has been extended to Friday 31 Aug.
Some organisations have expressed real interest in the consultation while stating their need for additional time to undertake discussion meetings with their members before submitting a formal response. By extending the deadline for this secondary consultation, the aim is to ensure that everyone who wishes to respond will have sufficient time to do so.
The consultation proposes a model of shared decision-making all along the patient pathway, which should be relevant irrespective of patients’ conditions, their clinical pathway or progress along it. The model indicates where patients would be expected to have more say in decisions about their care in primary care; before a diagnosis; at referral to secondary care; and after a diagnosis had been made.
It asks a small number of focussed questions to seek views on:
  • whether we have identified the right areas as well as the right levers for making sure our proposals will give patients more opportunities to make shared decisions about their care and treatment, all along the pathway
  • whether our proposals are realistic and achievable
  • whether we have missed any key issues
  • whether we have identified the right means of delivering our proposals.
Respond to the online consultation
Read Liberating the NHS: No decision about me, without me – Further consultation on proposals to secure shared decision-making
Department of Health

Department of Health extends NHS 111 roll out deadline

Department of Health extends NHS 111 roll out deadline: Government extends date for implementation of 111 non-emergency service by 'up to six months'The government has extended the deadline for the roll out of NHS 111 to make sure areas have enough time to plan for the service.The announcement follows criticism of 111 by the British Medical Association and other unions, as well as pressure from clinical commissioning groups (CCGs) and private firms.In a letter to CCGs Jim Easton, national director for improvement and efficiency at the Department of Health ...Kings Fund Health News

Independent report calls for "major cultural shift" to improve dignity in care

Independent report calls for "major cultural shift" to improve dignity in care: Commission presents final report as joint work gets underway to turn recommendations into action. NHS Confederation Press Release

Nine to five culture in NHS has devastating impact

Nine to five culture in NHS has devastating impact: The full extent of the "nine to five" culture in the NHS is disclosed today in research which shows startling differences in levels of emergency treatment at weekends.Telegraph health News

British population is getting too fat for the planet

British population is getting too fat for the planet: UK responsible for 3 per cent of flab despite representing 1 per cent of world's people, research shows.Telegraph Health News

NHS is 'failing' mental health patients

NHS is 'failing' mental health patients:
Three-quarters of people suffering from mental illness do not have access to treatments which would improve their lives and save billions of pounds every year, experts warn today. Independent Health News

RCN says NHS 111 is pause needed

RCN says NHS 111 is pause needed: The Royal College of Nursing has reiterated its call for a pause before the move from NHS Direct to NHS 111 services in England.

Advice for RCN members during BMA industrial action

Advice for RCN members during BMA industrial action: The RCN has published guidance for nursing staff (Word 4KB) who may be affected when members of the British Medical Association (BMA) take industrial action on Thursday 21 June.