Wednesday 16 April 2014

Nurse struck off after taking £30

Nurse struck off after taking £30 A senior nurse who was working at St Andrews Hospital is struck off after taking £30 from his employee. BBC Northamptonshire

MPs meet new KGH chief executive

MPs meet new KGH chief executive The area’s three MPs have said a meeting with Kettering General Hospital’s new chief executive last week went well. Northamptonshire Telegraph

How is the NHS performing? April 2014

How is the NHS performing? April 2014 This is the eleventh in a series of quarterly monitoring reports which aims to provide a regular update on how the NHS is coping as it grapples with the evolving reform agenda and the more significant challenge of making radical improvements in productivity. It highlights that the NHS has had no real rise in spending between 2010/11 and 2013/14, yet despite this, in broad terms the NHS has continued to provide services to a growing population and to maintain the quality of those services. However, our survey finds that there is deepening pessimism about the ability of the NHS to make ends meet financially, particularly in 2015/16. The King's Fund

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Two sides of the same coin: Balancing quality and finance to deliver greater

Two sides of the same coin: Balancing quality and finance to deliver greater A crucial issue facing the NHS today is how the health service can balance the imperative to provide better care with the need to reduce costs overall. NHS Confederation

Under 16s 'shut out of safe havens'

Under 16s 'shut out of safe havens' Children suffering a mental health crisis in England are being forced into police custody because 35% of NHS "places of safety" ban under 16s, figures suggest. BBC News

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Warning over bowel cancer screening

Warning over bowel cancer screening Bowel cancer screening uptake needs to improve, campaigners say, after figures showed just half of people eligible in England come forward for the test. BBC News

Pay, conditions and care quality in residential, nursing and domiciliary services

Pay, conditions and care quality in residential, nursing and domiciliary services How do pay and conditions for workers in residential, nursing and domiciliary care services relate to the quality of care they provide? Care workers do demanding work for low pay, and social care services are being delivered in an increasingly challenging environment, yet service users, their carers and families have increasing expectations about service quality and care workers’ skills and attributes. Joseph Rowntree Trust

Barely half of those eligible for NHS Health Check actually getting it

Barely half of those eligible for NHS Health Check actually getting it Only eight local authorities have met the targets set by Public Health England. OnMedica

Four lessons for the NHS on how to manage an ageing workforce

Four lessons for the NHS on how to manage an ageing workforce With plans to raise the state pension age to 70, the health service has to tackle a variety of challenges

In his Autumn statement last year, the chancellor of the exchequer set in motion plans to raise the state pension age to 70 for today's young people, on course to be the highest in the world. The question of whether people will need to work longer in the future is pretty much settled but there is still a lack of clarity about what work will be like for older workers of the future and how managers will oversee increasingly ageing workforces.

Answering the question of how to extend working life made a significant advance when the NHS Working Longer Review group reported the preliminary findings of its investigation into the impact of higher pension ages on the delivery of health services. This is the largest review of working practices in relation to age undertaken in the UK.Continue reading... The Guardian

NHS faces strike threat as 500,000 healthcare staff to be balloted

NHS faces strike threat as 500,000 healthcare staff to be balloted Unison and Unite confirm staff ballot over possible strike action following Jeremy Hunt's decision to axe 1% pay rise

The NHS is bracing itself for a strike after its largest union voted to ballot its members over industrial action to protest against the axing of health staff's planned 1% pay rise.

Unison, which represents 400,000 NHS personnel including about 100,000 nurses, decided on Tuesday to ballot over strike action or action short of a strike.Continue reading... The Guardian

Hospital bed shortage exposed

Hospital bed shortage exposed UK has second lowest number of beds per person in Europe, report shows, as NHS overcrowding breaches safety limit and raises risk of superbugs. The Daily Telegraph

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