Disabled and frail people in Northamptonshire ‘put to bed at teatime’ by home helpers

Disabled and frail people in Northamptonshire ‘put to bed at teatime’ by home helpers Disabled and frail people are sometimes being put to bed at 5pm to fit in with home help schedules, an independent report says. Northampton Chronicle and Echo

Care in England 'not good enough'

Care in England 'not good enough' The chief inspector of adult social care at the Care Quality Commission tells the BBC "too much awful care" is happening in England. BBC News

More paramedics quitting NHS jobs

More paramedics quitting NHS jobs Increasing numbers of paramedics are leaving NHS ambulance services, with senior staff saying crews are under greater pressure to meet demand. BBC News

Mental health: A start of a long journey?

Mental health: A start of a long journey? Mental health targets: A start of a long journey? BBC News

See also:

• Policy paper: Mental health services: achieving better access by 2020 Department of Health
• VIDEO: Mental health care 'must be instant' BBC News
• NHS mental health care in crisis: 'There is no hope for people like me' The Guardian
• 'It's a national scandal': 15 stories which show the state of mental health The Guardian

UK sending 750 troops to tackle Ebola

UK sending 750 troops to tackle Ebola The UK is sending 750 military personnel to Sierra Leone to help deal with the deadly Ebola outbreak, the Ministry of Defence says. BBC News

See also:

• VIDEO: Ebola outbreak: Your questions BBC News
• Ebola 'likely to arrive in UK' as pressure builds on Government to introduce airport screening The Independent
• Healthy boy barred from UK school amid Ebola 'hysteria' The Daily Telegraph
• UK government seeks to reassure public over Ebola risk The Guardian

Drop in hospital admissions attributable to smoking for adults aged 35 and over

Drop in hospital admissions attributable to smoking for adults aged 35 and over The number of hospital admissions of adults aged 35 and older estimated to be attributable to smoking(2) dropped to 460,900(3) in 2012/13, according to statistics released today by the Health and Social Care Information Centre

Face of UK medicine is changing, says GMC

Face of UK medicine is changing, says GMC The face of medicine in the UK is changing, with women breaking into traditionally male areas such as surgery and emergency medicine and more doctors than ever coming to work here from Europe. The GMC

See also:

• The State of Medical Education and Practice 2014 The GMC

As NHS strike looms, Guardian survey shows scale of anger on pay | Anna Bawden

As NHS strike looms, Guardian survey shows scale of anger on pay | Anna Bawden Health workers reveal their discontent as three years of real-terms wage cuts and increased pressure hit home.


Why are NHS staff going on strike?
NHS strike: will you take action over pay? Poll

Seething unrest over pay threatens to undermine David Camerons bid to present the Tories as defenders of the NHS, an exclusive Guardian survey of heathcare professionals has found.

Asked: Do you think that NHS staff are paid appropriately?, nearly three-quarters (73%) of respondents answered no. Many among the 1,700 Guardian healthcare network members who took part in the survey feel that for the large amounts of stress, responsibility and social value, NHS staff are hugely underpaid. Pay is now frozen for the next four years while our MPs get 11%. Is their contribution to society so much greater than someone who works for the NHS? one responded. Continue reading... The Guardian

Judge rules that anorexic woman cannot be force-fed

Judge rules that anorexic woman cannot be force-fed A chronically ill woman suffering from anorexia nervosa wrote an impassioned letter to a judge asking for her treatment to be withdrawn so she could spend her final days “doing nice things”, it has emerged. The Independent