A fifth of GPs offering emergency care only as doctors strike

A fifth of GPs offering emergency care only as doctors strike:
A fifth of GP surgeries will only see emergency patients and some routine hosptial appointments have been postponed as doctors’ strike tomorrow. Evening Telegraph

Quality improvement through clinical communities: eight lessons for practice

Quality improvement through clinical communities: eight lessons for practice:

The authors of this paper review and analysis literature in order to provide practical lessons on how to
improve the quality of healthcare by using clinical community-based
approaches. NHS Networks

Doctors start industrial action

Doctors start industrial action: The first industrial action by doctors for almost 40 years is under way, as medics boycott non-urgent care in a dispute over pensions. BBC News

Research fills in Map of Medicine

Research fills in Map of Medicine: About half of GPs and a quarter of community staff are using the care pathways tool Map of Medicine, new research suggests. EHI News

Emergency preparedness during transition

Emergency preparedness during transition: The following Dear Colleague Letter has been published by the Department of Health 'Maintaining NHS emergency preparedness, resilience and response staff capability during transition'. This letter provides direction of how resilience to respond to incidents must be maintained during transition. CASH News

Reaping the strategic rewards of revalidation

Reaping the strategic rewards of revalidation: NHS leaders gathered to hear the strategic benefits of implementing revalidation, on the first day of the NHS Confederation’s annual conference and exhibition. NHS Employer News

Personal health budget pilots: fifth interim evaluation report

Personal health budget pilots: fifth interim evaluation report:
The fifth interim independent evaluation report about the personal health budget pilot programme has been published by the personal health budgets evaluation (PHBE) team.
 
The report is based on interviews with 52 budget holders and 13 carers and suggests that there is widespread potential for personal health budgets to lead to improvements in health and wellbeing.
 
The report highlights that the role of information, advice and support is vitally important. It identifies some challenges, and work continues to explore these in more detail, to develop methods to overcome them and help the NHS to deliver personal health budgets in the longer term. Department of Health

Supporting recovery in mental health

Supporting recovery in mental health: The Implementing Recovery through Organisational Change project is a new approach to helping people with mental health problems that aims to change how the NHS and its partners operate so they can focus more on helping those people with their recovery. NHS Confederation

Financial pressure in NHS 'worst seen' NHS managers warn - Telegraph.co.uk

Financial pressure in NHS 'worst seen' NHS managers warn - Telegraph.co.uk:

Telegraph.co.uk

Financial pressure in NHS 'worst seen' NHS managers warn Telegraph.co.uk Cinderella services like learning disabilities, mental health for children, some diagnostic services and physiotherapy which are not scrutinised as closely as ... NHS chiefs gloomy about care prospectsFinancial Times Health group warns NHS is 'tanker heading for iceberg'Manchester Evening News Today in healthcare: Tuesday 19 JuneThe Guardian all 136 news articles »

RCN seeks members’ views on NMC council

RCN seeks members’ views on NMC council: The Royal College of Nursing is seeking feedback from members before responding to a Department of Health consultation on reducing the size of the Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC) ruling council.