KGH scores well in children’s services review

KGH scores well in children’s services review Kettering General Hospital has received a positive review of the services it provides for children in a new report. Northamptonshire Telegraph

Child and adolescent mental health services (CAMHS) and schools link pilot scheme

Child and adolescent mental health services (CAMHS) and schools link pilot scheme The pilot schemes will test the impact of joint training of linked staff in school settings and local NHS funded child and adolescent mental health services (CAMHS) to improve care and ensure timely, appropriate referrals. Expressions of interest need to be submitted by 31 July 2015. A national roll-out of the scheme is planned for next year. NHS England

Focus on: international comparisons of healthcare quality - what can the UK learn?

Focus on: international comparisons of healthcare quality - what can the UK learn? This report explores how quality of care in the UK has changed over time, making comparisons with 14 similar countries. It considers performance against 27 of the OECD’s Health Care Quality Indicators, discussing both what international comparisons can tell us about healthcare in the UK, and the value of such comparisons as a means of assessing performance. Nuffield Trust & the Health Foundation

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• Nuffield Trust - press release

Doctors' life-saving role on 7/7

Doctors' life-saving role on 7/7 Doctors' life-saving role after 7/7 bus bombing. BBC News

See also:

• London bus bomb: GPs reflect 10 years on from 7/7 blast in Tavistock Square GP Online

Up your game or risk erosion of your freedoms, foundation trusts warned

Up your game or risk erosion of your freedoms, foundation trusts warned Performance to be rated on sliding scale for first time, pledges Monitor. OnMedica

Ministers consider shelving personal liability cap for long-term care costs

Ministers consider shelving personal liability cap for long-term care costsSenior figures in the social care sector say the idea of ‘pausing’ cost cap, due to be brought in next April, is being discussed urgently in Whitehall

Ministers are considering shelving the promised introduction of a cap on personal liability for the cost of long-term care, after council leaders asked for the funding set aside for it to be used instead to ease the crisis in day-to-day services for elderly and disabled people.

In a letter to the health secretary, Jeremy Hunt, and the chancellor, George Osborne, a copy of which has been seen by the Guardian, the newly Conservative-led Local Government Association says: “It would be deeply damaging to press ahead with a costly and ambitious reform programme if the very foundations of the system we are reforming cannot be sustained.” Continue reading... The Guardian

Elderly care in England is 'unacceptable in a civilised society', says leading charity

Elderly care in England is 'unacceptable in a civilised society', says leading charity The state of elderly care in England is “unacceptable in a civilised society”, the country’s leading charity representing older people said, as figures reveal more than a million now get no help at all for basic care. The Independent

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• Over a million older people struggling to cope at home with zero care Age UK

Budget 2015: George Osborne urged to reverse public health cuts that will leave services 'gutted'

Budget 2015: George Osborne urged to reverse public health cuts that will leave services 'gutted' George Osborne must use Wednesday's Budget to reverse £200m of planned cuts to public health spending that will leave services, “gutted”, the leader of Britain’s doctors’ union has said. The Independent