East Midlands Ambulance Service prosecutes more attackers than any NHS trust

East Midlands Ambulance Service prosecutes more attackers than any NHS trust East Midlands Ambulance Service has topped the league table for taking legal action against people who have assaulted its paramedics. Northampton Chronicle and Echo

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• Paramedics attacked 83 times last year Northamptonshire Telegraph

Engaging with BME communities: insights for impact

Engaging with BME communities: insights for impact This report highlights ways in which providers and commissioners have developed innovative solutions and approaches to better cater for and engage with BME communities. NHS Confederation

Admissions avoidance and diabetes: guidance for clinical commissioning groups and clinical teams

Admissions avoidance and diabetes: guidance for clinical commissioning groups and clinical teams This report finds that there are tens of thousands of people with diabetes a year who are not receiving the support they need to manage their condition from primary care or do not have sufficient access to specialist diabetes teams once they get to hospital. It calls on the NHS to do more both to prevent diabetes-related hospital admissions and to make hospital stays shorter. Diabetes UK

Avoiding unhappy returns: radical reductions in readmissions, achieved with volunteers

Avoiding unhappy returns: radical reductions in readmissions, achieved with volunteers This research finds that almost 150,000 older people had no support on returning home from hospital and for those that did get some kind of help, approximately 20 per cent didn’t receive continuing support. This report contains a summary of the achievements of the Hospital 2 Home scheme in Leicestershire service in it's first year, finding that over 600 older people have been supported, with very low readmission rates to hospital among those who used the scheme. Royal Voluntary Service

NHS struggle to meet £20bn savings target hits elderly hardest

NHS struggle to meet £20bn savings target hits elderly hardest Knee and hip replacement operations and cataract removals fall to lowest level for five years as patients left longer in pain.

Patients are being denied knee replacements and cataract removals as the NHS struggles to meet its £20bn savings target, official data has revealed.

Cancer: two in three patients will survive by end of decade

Cancer: two in three patients will survive by end of decade The number of people dying from breast, prostate and bowel cancer will almost halve by 2020, new figures suggest. The Daily Telegraph

Social workers invaded my body and stole baby, says mother forced to have caesarean

Social workers invaded my body and stole baby, says mother forced to have caesarean Mother who had forced caesarean section before being told baby would be taken into care accuses social workers of stealing her baby. The Independent

Equivalent of 20 classrooms-full of children take up smoking every day in UK, according to research

Equivalent of 20 classrooms-full of children take up smoking every day in UK, according to research

The equivalent of 20 classrooms-full of children take up smoking every day in the UK, new research has estimated, as doctors urged local authorities to view cutting smoking rates as “a child protection issue”. The Independent

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• '20 classrooms of kids' a day take up smoking NHS Choices