Friday, 21 November 2014
KGH boss: All key services will continue
KGH boss: All key services will continue The future of accident and emergency, maternity, paediatrics and general surgery are to continue at Kettering General Hospital in the long term. Northamptonshire Telegraph
Intelligent monitoring: trusts that provide mental health services
Intelligent monitoring: trusts that provide mental health services The Care Quality Commission has ranked Trusts providing mental health services into priority bands based on levels of concern which will help inform the inspection process.
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- Northamptonshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust intelligent monitoring report Care Quality Commission
- Watchdog ranks mental health trusts BBC News
Midlands CSUs merge
Midlands CSUs merge NHS Greater East Midlands Commissioning Support Unit and NHS Arden CSU have announced plans for a merger. E-Health Insider
My expectations for raising concerns and complaints
My expectations for raising concerns and complaints This vision aims to align the health and social care sector on what good looks like from the user perspective when raising concerns and complaints about health and social care. It also allows measurement of progress so that organisations can determine the action they need to take to improve. Healthwatch, Local Government Ombudsman and Parliamentary and Health Service Ombudsman
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Stories and numbers: there is room for both in understanding patients’ experience
Stories and numbers: there is room for both in understanding patients’ experience There is a widely held view that in understanding the quality of health care, quantitative data – the numbers – represent the facts and are held to be true, while qualitative accounts – stories and descriptions – are thought of as anecdotes with no wider application.
Statistics: Seasonal flu vaccine uptake in healthcare workers 1 September 2014 to 31 October 2014
Statistics: Seasonal flu vaccine uptake in healthcare workers 1 September 2014 to 31 October 2014 Provisional monthly seasonal flu vaccine uptake data for frontline healthcare workers (HCWs), covering cumulative flu vaccinations administered from 1 September 2014 to 31 October 2014. The data is shown at national, geographical area, area team (on behalf of primary care and independent sector healthcare providers) and individual trust level. Public Health England
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- Press release: More than 340,000 healthcare workers take up flu vaccine Department of Health
MPs to debate NHS 'privatisation'
MPs to debate NHS 'privatisation' MPs will debate are to debate a bill which its supporters say will roll back what they see as the creeping privatisation of the NHS in England BBC News
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- Labour NHS bill is 'misguided and disruptive' The Daily Telegraph
2020 vision
2020 vision A week after the National Information Board's long-awaited plan for NHS IT and information was released, it is attracting cautious support; but also raising almost as many questions as it has answered. E-Health Insider
Is growth in ADHD 'caused by marketing'?
Is growth in ADHD 'caused by marketing'? "The global surge in ADHD [attention deficit hyperactivity disorder] diagnosis has more to do with marketing than medicine, according to experts," the Mail Online reports.
But these experts are sociologists, not clinicians, and they present no new peer-reviewed clinical evidence.
That said, they do highlight some interesting interconnected trends about ADHD that are worth attention.
The principal concern of the authors is that ADHD is being medicalised – that is, for a variety of reasons, children who may be simply "naughty" and high spirited are being misdiagnosed with ADHD, and are wrongly being treated with powerful medications such as methylphenidate, better known as Ritalin.
But these experts are sociologists, not clinicians, and they present no new peer-reviewed clinical evidence.
That said, they do highlight some interesting interconnected trends about ADHD that are worth attention.
The principal concern of the authors is that ADHD is being medicalised – that is, for a variety of reasons, children who may be simply "naughty" and high spirited are being misdiagnosed with ADHD, and are wrongly being treated with powerful medications such as methylphenidate, better known as Ritalin.
Exclusive: Half of GPs denied access to cancer scans
Exclusive: Half of GPs denied access to cancer scans CCG-imposed restrictions are preventing up to half of GPs from directly referring patients for cancer diagnostic tests, a GP investigation has revealed. GP Online
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- Editorial: CCGs must commission GP scan access GP Online
- Cancer guidelines may improve diagnosis rates NHS Choices (Behind the Headlines)
- Cancer death rate falls nationally over last decade Health & Social Care Information Centre
Hospitals still letting down many COPD patients
Hospitals still letting down many COPD patients Call for better access to specialist inpatient and rehabilitation services. OnMedica
Rising number of assaults against NHS staff
Rising number of assaults against NHS staff Figures from NHS Protect revealed that in 2013/14, a total of 68,683 physical assaults against NHS staff in England were reported, of which 1,731 were in primary care. OnMedica
New figures on hospital crowding prompt fears of winter crisis
New figures on hospital crowding prompt fears of winter crisis Experts warn hospitals are full to bursting as new figures show record levels of crowding before autumn began. The Daily Telegraph
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Royal Bournemouth Hospital threatens to evict elderly patients
Royal Bournemouth Hospital threatens to evict elderly patients A hospital is threatening to take legal action to evict mainly elderly patients whose relatives refuse to take them home when they are well enough to leave. An official at Royal Bournemouth Hospital said one family had asked staff to “keep hold” of a relative so they could go on holiday to Turkey for two weeks. The Independent
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