Health spending reforms risk creating complexity for local commissioners: Government reforms to resource allocation risk creating a more complex process with increasingly fragmented decision-making, according to a new report, Improving the allocation of health resources in England, by The King's Fund.
Thursday, 11 April 2013
Shared decision making: whose life is it anyway?
Shared decision making: whose life is it anyway?: It is part of the clinical culture to fix. We train our doctors to find out what’s wrong and then to fix it, our nurses to follow protocols. But what if we taught healthcare professionals that their job is to find out what matters to the patient, to find a solution together that works for the patient and to support them to make it happen? The Health Foundation
Organ donation soars since 2008
Organ donation soars since 2008: The number of people in the UK donating organs after death has increased by 50% in the past five years. BBC News
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Care assistants 'want register'
Care assistants 'want register': Most healthcare assistants in the UK want to see tougher regulation of the profession, a survey suggests. BBC News
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- Healthcare assistants prefer registration Public Service
Caldicott recommends 'duty to share'
Caldicott recommends 'duty to share': The Caldicott2 review of information governance in the NHS recommends a new duty to share information when it is in the interest of the patient. E-Health Insider
Patient complaints focus on the same doctors
Patient complaints focus on the same doctors:
| Half of all complaints are about 3% of doctors OnMedica News |
Working with patients to manage long-term conditions
Working with patients to manage long-term conditions: People Powered Health is an approach that can improve quality of life and save the NHS money.
The health system is going through significant upheaval and crisis provoked by the combined impact of the NHS reforms and the Francis Inquiry. The result is a sense of unease and uncertainty despite the NHS ranking excellently in international terms. At a recent Lord Darzi discussion on primary care, the mood was summed up as: 'Why does it feel so bad, if we're actually doing so well?'
The health system is going through significant upheaval and crisis provoked by the combined impact of the NHS reforms and the Francis Inquiry. The result is a sense of unease and uncertainty despite the NHS ranking excellently in international terms. At a recent Lord Darzi discussion on primary care, the mood was summed up as: 'Why does it feel so bad, if we're actually doing so well?'
Dementia 2013: the hidden voice of loneliness
Dementia 2013: the hidden voice of loneliness: This second annual report on how well people with dementia are living found that over half of the general public believe that people with dementia have a bad quality of life . This was echoed in the feedback from people with dementia with 70 per cent saying they had stopped doing things they used to due because of lack of confidence. The majority of people with dementia also felt anxious or depressed, and a third of people said they’d lost friends after a diagnosis. It calls on commissioners to ensure appropriate support services are available, and urges people and organisations to play their part in helping ensure
their communities are dementia friendly.
their communities are dementia friendly.
End-of-life care improvement fund launched
End-of-life care improvement fund launched: The government has announced a £60m improvement fund for end-of-life care. Healthcare Today
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- Guidance: Hospices Funding Breakdown Department of Health
Inquiry into failings in NHS emergency care
Inquiry into failings in NHS emergency care: MPs are to launch an inquiry into NHS emergency care amid fears that patients are being put at risk by catastrophic failings in the operation of a new 111 helpline.
The Daily Telegraph
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- Paramedics slam new 111 non-emergency phone service The Daily Telegraph
Old before their time: Britons now ageing quicker than their parents
Old before their time: Britons now ageing quicker than their parents:
We are living longer yet growing less healthy. That is the paradoxical conclusion reached by researchers who have found successive generations building up medical problems worse than those faced by their forbears. The Independent
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We are living longer yet growing less healthy. That is the paradoxical conclusion reached by researchers who have found successive generations building up medical problems worse than those faced by their forbears. The Independent
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- Today's adults 15 years 'older' than parents The Daily Telegraph
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