Trust revises dementia care plans

Trust revises dementia care plans The NHS trust overseeing dementia care in Northamptonshire launches a revised plan to restructure services. BBC Northamptonshire

See also:

• News: Staff consultation NHFT News
• Twenty six NHS jobs at risk as dementia plans for Northamptonshire resurface Northampton Chronicle and Echo

PODCAST: What is the NHS internal market and is it any good? - The Information Daily

PODCAST: What is the NHS internal market and is it any good? - The Information Daily REALITYBITES is a weekly podcast conversation on healthcare and UK health and care services between Ben Gowland, Chief Executive of the Nene CCG, and Joe Tibbetts, publisher of The Information Daily and HealthCare Innovation Daily.

Go with the flow: matching capacity with demand in hospitals

Go with the flow: matching capacity with demand in hospitals As the pressure on policymakers to find a way of stemming the rise in emergency attendances and admissions is growing ever more acute, Bryan Jones discusses how learning from our Flow Cost Quality programme can help. Health Foundation

Evidence for success: the guide to getting evidence and using it

Evidence for success: the guide to getting evidence and using it This guide offers easy to follow, step-by-step guidance and resources to support organisations to use evidence to influence policy and practice. It also provides guidance on the use of evidence to influence funding and commissioning decisions and highlights other key resources. Knowledge Translation Network

Hospitals seeing more skin cancer

Hospitals seeing more skin cancer The number of people admitted to hospital for skin cancer treatment in England rose by nearly a third in five years, figures show. BBC News

See also:

• Skin cancer referrals up 41 per cent in 5 years The Independent
• Cheap holidays fuel 41 per cent rise in hospital admissions for skin cancer The Daily Telegraph

Patients to set agenda for senior NHS managers

Patients to set agenda for senior NHS managers First ever Citizen Assembly will grill NHS England board on questions set by patients. OnMedica

Why are doctors so reluctant to be leaders in the NHS?

Why are doctors so reluctant to be leaders in the NHS? Many doctors associate leadership roles with a heavier workload, lack of resources and mistrust in management

The NHS needs a leadership revolution

Doctors rarely enter the health service to manage and lead they do so to help patients, to give advice as trusted healthcare professionals. This is an age-old truth but also an increasingly challenging and pertinent one given the central position of medical leadership within the 21st-century NHS. In light of high-profile news regarding care quality and efficiency, as well as increasing management and financial responsibilities for doctors and senior medical professionals, establishing successful leadership is vital to the future of the NHS.

Within this context, and with 58% of respondents from our survey of more than 100 leaders in the NHS having little or no confidence that they have successors in place for medical leadership roles, surely its time to think differently about how we manage medical leadership talent? Continue reading... The Guardian

35,000 patients wrongly struck off GP registers

35,000 patients wrongly struck off GP registers Patients are being denied check-ups and cancer screening after being cut off NHS lists as health authorities botch attempts to update records. The Daily Telegraph