The NHS Change Model Twitter Club

The NHS Change Model Twitter Club:

NHS Change Model

The NHS Change Model is a framework for change to help NHS commissioners and providers improve how they go about improvement and deliver NHS goals for quality and value through a common language for change. There is a video on the site that offers an introduction to the model.

The Twitter Club is a regular fortnightly conversation for anyone interested in the Change Model and will be used to help further develop it.

The Twitter Club operates on Wednesdays between 4 and 5 pm and uses the hashtag #NHSchange.

If you are unfamiliar with Twitter, the club page provides an overview on how to set up an account and get started, as well as how to join in the conversation. You can also take the Twitter Tour!

The next event is on Wednesday the 16th of January and the discussion will be on "How can we use and share information to drive change and transformation"

Don't forget you can follow us on Twitter too!

Public consultation on future of hospital will start in spring

Public consultation on future of hospital will start in spring: The future of Kettering General Hospital will be discussed at a public consultation expected to start in late spring or early summer. Evening Telegraph

County to get £57 million grant over two years to improve public health

County to get £57 million grant over two years to improve public health: The Government has announced funding for public health budgets which for the first time will be given to local authorities rather than the NHS to improve health across local communities. Evening Telegraph

Fight against care home expansion continues

Fight against care home expansion continues: Opponents to a plan to significantly expand a rural care home are pledging to continue their fight, after wrongly believing their campaign had been a success. Northampton Chronicle & Echo

Ambulance station plans ‘likely to change’ after delay

Ambulance station plans ‘likely to change’ after delay: The strength of opinion about plans to close ambulance stations in the East Midlands has forced a delay in the final decision. Northampton Chronicle & Echo

Report casts doubt on benefits of joint commissioning

Report casts doubt on benefits of joint commissioning: The study, carried out by professors at the University of Birmingham for the National Institute of Health Research, warns that new financial pressures will make joint commissioning and joint working even harder in the future.

Hunt – we must expose NHS care failings

Hunt – we must expose NHS care failings: The Health Secretary Jeremy Hunt has called for the NHS to be inspected and rated Ofsted-style Public Service

Sickness absence: learning from the devolved nations

Sickness absence: learning from the devolved nations: The report, “Work as a health outcome in the devolved nations: How Scotland, Northern Ireland and Wales tackle sickness-related worklessness” details schemes that are making progress on reducing sickness absence. NHS Employers

£5.45 billion budget for local public health services

£5.45 billion budget for local public health services:

Funding ring-fenced for two years Related items from OnMedica Formula aims to aid local authorities on public health services funding Public health fears escalate Doctors’ leaders call for more regulation on public health Hunt praises GPs for ‘extraordinary dedication’ Budget may lead to 'slash and burn' cuts for NHS

Developing supportive design for people with dementia

Developing supportive design for people with dementia: This publication marks the completion of 26 Enhancing the Healing Environment (EHE) schemes in 23 NHS acute, community and mental health hospitals in England to improve the environment of care for people with dementia. This publication seeks to provide practical, value-for-money examples to encourage and inspire staff and their organisations to provide an environment of care that better supports people with dementia.

• Report
• Enhancing the Healing Environment project
• The King's Fund - publications

Britain's stress levels rising

Britain's stress levels rising: A study by the Mental Health Foundation has highlighted the principal reasons behind rising stress levels in Britain as money and job worries.
Almost six out of 10 people who responded to the survey by the charity said their life had become more stressful in the past five years. Chief executive Andrew McCulloch said the findings suggested that many people were not managing their stress levels and treating it as a... Healthcrae Today

New strain blamed for record norovirus outbreak

New strain blamed for record norovirus outbreak: The emergence of a new Australian strain of norovirus – the 'winter vomiting bug' – has featured in most newspapers today. The Daily Telegraph reports that the new strain is to blame for the record number of cases of the virus seen this winter, which it terms a 'severe norovirus season'.

NHS transplantation 'safe from German-style scandal'

NHS transplantation 'safe from German-style scandal': Organ transplantation on the NHS is safe from the kind of scandal currently rocking Germany, one of the Britain's top transplant surgeons has said. The Daily Telegraph

Haemorrhagic fever carried by UK rats: scientists

Haemorrhagic fever carried by UK rats: scientists: The potentially deadly hantavirus has been found in rats in the UK for the first time, scientists have confirmed after a man was diagnosed with the disease. The Daily Telegraph

Flu activity update: 10 January 2013

Flu activity update: 10 January 2013: Latest figures from the Health Protection Agency (HPA) up to 6 January 2013 show that flu activity remain at similar levels to those reported in the previous week based on a number of indicators, including GP consultation rates in England and the proportion of calls to NHS direct.