Are accident and emergency attendances increasing?

Are accident and emergency attendances increasing?: Pressures on accident and emergency (A&E) departments hit the headlines last week, with the Prime Minister and Leader of the Opposition trading statistics across the despatch box at Prime Minister’s Question Time. But what are the facts about A&E attendances?

Shingles jab for people in their 70s

Shingles jab for people in their 70s: People in their 70s across the UK will be routinely vaccinated against shingles from September 2013. BBC News

See also:

• OAPs to get shingles vaccinations in bid to end almost half of cases The Independent

Are we there yet? Models of medical leadership and their effectiveness: an exploratory study. Final report.

Are we there yet? Models of medical leadership and their effectiveness: an exploratory study. Final report.: This

report from the Health Services Management Centre at the University of Birmingham and The King’s Fund, and funded by the National Institute for Health Research (NIHR), provides a comprehensive and up-to-date picture of the state of medical leadership in NHS trusts today.

• Full report
• Executive summary
• Slideset (by Chris Ham, one of the report authors, summarises the key findings)
• The King's Fund - blogs
• NIHR Service Delivery and Organisation programme - funded projects

A lottery of treatment and care: MS services across the UK

A lottery of treatment and care: MS services across the UK: This report highlights disparities across the UK in access to MS medicines, social care support, employment support and health professionals for people with MS. The findings are based on a survey last year asking people with MS what services they needed and to what extent those needs had been met over the previous 12 months. More than 10,500 adults responded – the largest ever survey of people with MS in the UK.

• Report
• Multiple Sclerosis Society - news

NHS errors 'deliberately hidden'

NHS errors 'deliberately hidden': The NHS has "failed" to hold anyone to account for a large scale financial mismanagement at a local trust, a damning report has concluded. The Daily Telegraph

Every child to get flu vaccine in bid to prevent epidemic

Every child to get flu vaccine in bid to prevent epidemic:
Every child in England and Wales will be vaccinated against flu each year to limit the spread of outbreaks, the Government will announce today. The Independent

New Anonymisation Standard for the publication of health and social care data becomes effective on 30 April 2013

New Anonymisation Standard for the publication of health and social care data becomes effective on 30 April 2013 The last day of April is the first day of a new Anonymisation Standard that applies to all organisations who publish information about publicly-commissioned health and social care activity and outcomes. Health & Social Care Information Centre