How can we deal with financial pressures in health and social care?

How can we deal with financial pressures in health and social care?:

The financial pressures facing health and social care can be approached in one of two ways. Organisations can adopt a fortress mentality and seek to protect themselves in the current harsh climate, regardless of the impact on others. Alternatively, they can reach out to partner organisations and work towards a whole-system solution, even if this means sacrificing their own interests for the greater good.

UK ovarian cancer treatment lags

UK ovarian cancer treatment lags: Women in the UK are dying unnecessarily of ovarian cancer because treatment lags behind other countries, say experts. BBC News

VIDEO: How health tourists buy GP access

VIDEO: How health tourists buy GP access: Panorama goes undercover to discover how so-called 'health tourists' buy access to free NHS services. BBC News

NHS Employers call for another pay freeze

NHS Employers call for another pay freeze: If health service pay is not frozen for a third year running, the quality of care for patients could suffer Public Service

Two-thirds of carers unaware of telehealth

Two-thirds of carers unaware of telehealth:
A survey by the charity Carers UK as found that health and social care staff are failing to provide carers with adequate information about telehealth technology.
The charity questioned 4,200 and found that almost two-thirds (62%) were still unaware of telehealth technology in helping them care for their ill and disabled loved ones. It also revealed that many carers in the UK have either never been offered telehea... Healthcare Today

Jeremy Hunt: no promises on the NHS ringfence - Spectator.co.uk (blog)

Jeremy Hunt: no promises on the NHS ringfence - Spectator.co.uk (blog):

The Sun

Jeremy Hunt: no promises on the NHS ringfence Spectator.co.uk (blog) In this week's Spectator James Forsyth interviews new Health Secretary Jeremy Hunt about how he will continue Andrew Lansley's legacy on NHS reform. He says his 'burning mission' is to 'demonstrate that we have as much to offer the NHS as Labour ever ... Jeremy Hunt: No cash vow for NHSThe Sun Hunt cautious on NHS spending plansRuncorn and Widnes Weekly News all 47 news articles »

Hundreds of contracts signed in 'biggest ever act of NHS privatisation'

Hundreds of contracts signed in 'biggest ever act of NHS privatisation': Labour says private contracts worth a quarter of a billion pounds have been signed this week

Shared decision making leads to a better patient experience

Shared decision making leads to a better patient experience: With policy documents promoting patient-centred healthcare, Steven Laitner explores how the shared decision making programme is providing tools to help make them reality

Patients being treated 'like medical conditions, not people'

Patients being treated 'like medical conditions, not people': Patients suffer poor care because they are viewed as "medical conditions", Royal College warns. The Daily Telegraph

Abortion: The minister and the moral minefield

Abortion: The minister and the moral minefield:
Maria Miller will have known that her comments yesterday on the abortion time limit would hit a nerve. No other issue generates more hand-wringing than the question of when it is too late to terminate a pregnancy. The Independent

Call for improved ward rounds

Call for improved ward rounds: A nurse should be at every bedside to help improve the quality of ward rounds, according to a joint report by the Royal College of Nursing and the Royal College of Physicians.