GP super-practice to run 'front door' at busiest A&E in England A GP super-practice is set to take over the the busiest emergency department 'front door' in the NHS. University Hospitals of Leicester NHS Trust working with the three Leicester, Leicestershire and Rutland CCGs appointed the Corby-based GP super-practice Lakeside Healthcare. GP Online
Wednesday, 11 November 2015
The Care Collapse: The imminent crisis in residential care and its impact on the NHS
The Care Collapse: The imminent crisis in residential care and its impact on the NHS Research assessing the state of the residential care industry, including an analysis of its future financial viability.
We do not believe it is an understatement to say that Britain’s residential care sector is in crisis. Providers are being faced with an unsustainable combination of declining real terms funding, rising demand for their services, and increasing financial liabilities. Our research projects a funding gap of over £1 billion for older people’s residential care alone by 2020/21, which could result in the loss of around 37,000 beds. This is greater in scale than the collapse of Southern Cross in 2011, which affected 31,000 older people.
Given the perilous state of the industry, there is no private sector provider with the capacity to take in the residents who would be affected by the loss of other providers’ beds. Consequently we believe the worst outcome is the most likely: that the vast majority of care home residents will end up on general hospital wards. We project that if all these care home lost beds were to flow through to hospitals in this way, the annual cost to the NHS would total £3 billion. ResPublica
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We do not believe it is an understatement to say that Britain’s residential care sector is in crisis. Providers are being faced with an unsustainable combination of declining real terms funding, rising demand for their services, and increasing financial liabilities. Our research projects a funding gap of over £1 billion for older people’s residential care alone by 2020/21, which could result in the loss of around 37,000 beds. This is greater in scale than the collapse of Southern Cross in 2011, which affected 31,000 older people.
Given the perilous state of the industry, there is no private sector provider with the capacity to take in the residents who would be affected by the loss of other providers’ beds. Consequently we believe the worst outcome is the most likely: that the vast majority of care home residents will end up on general hospital wards. We project that if all these care home lost beds were to flow through to hospitals in this way, the annual cost to the NHS would total £3 billion. ResPublica
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Empower staff to improve staff engagement
Empower staff to improve staff engagement Learn how the George Eliot trust greatly improved its staff engagement scores by letting staff create the vision and values of the organisation. Case study from NHS Employers
‘Outdated stigma’ preventing parents from seeking life-saving mental health support
‘Outdated stigma’ preventing parents from seeking life-saving mental health support New survey reveals that new parents are experiencing depression or anxiety without professional support because they feel too afraid to seek help. Royal College of Nursing
NHS pay: 50,000 earn £100,000 or more
NHS pay: 50,000'earn £100,000 or more' There are more than 50,000 people in the NHS who earned more than £100,000 in 2013-14, an investigation by the Taxpayers' Alliance and Daily Mail shows. BBC News
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Exclusive: GMC on track to hit three-year GP revalidation target
Exclusive: GMC on track to hit three-year GP revalidation target The GMC is on track to hit its target of revalidating all GPs who were on its register in December 2012 by the end of March 2016, official statistics suggest. GP Online
HCA International Limited could be forced to sell one of its hospitals due to market dominance, says watchdog
HCA International Limited could be forced to sell one of its hospitals due to market dominance, says watchdog Competition watchdog says its market dominance means insurance firms are being overcharged. The Independent
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- Private healthcare market investigation: provisional findings and remedies Competition and Markets Authority
End the macho culture keeping women from the top of NHS
End the macho culture keeping women from the top of NHS It is not long hours or work-life balance fears that keep women from seeking senior roles but the behaviour of white men in grey suits
Women make up the majority of the healthcare workforce, and there are more women than men in junior positions in NHS finance, yet they are still underrepresented in the senior financial ranks, and especially on boards. While women are slowly smashing the glass ceiling across other industries why is it that women in the NHS sometimes struggle to reach the top? For a fluid organisation that prides itself on moving with the times, it is disappointing to see.
Balanced boards, whether that’s relative to experience, background, race or gender, mean better boards, and an organisation should always reflect the people it serves. Yet there seems to be a growing acceptance that women, while excelling in their professional careers and proving to be equally capable as their male counterparts, are still falling short of reaching the top echelons of the UK healthcare system. Continue reading... The Guardian
Women make up the majority of the healthcare workforce, and there are more women than men in junior positions in NHS finance, yet they are still underrepresented in the senior financial ranks, and especially on boards. While women are slowly smashing the glass ceiling across other industries why is it that women in the NHS sometimes struggle to reach the top? For a fluid organisation that prides itself on moving with the times, it is disappointing to see.
Balanced boards, whether that’s relative to experience, background, race or gender, mean better boards, and an organisation should always reflect the people it serves. Yet there seems to be a growing acceptance that women, while excelling in their professional careers and proving to be equally capable as their male counterparts, are still falling short of reaching the top echelons of the UK healthcare system. Continue reading... The Guardian
Gay men need clear information about ‘chemsex’, not messages about morality | Marco Scalvini
Gay men need clear information about ‘chemsex’, not messages about morality | Marco Scalvini When health professionals and the media talk about gay sex as an emergency health issue, they may actually encourage risky behaviour.
In the past week the public has been alerted to “risky behaviours” among gay men in London. Triggered by an editorial in the BMJ, the media has been warning of the “dangers of chemsex”, an activity labelled an “increasing risk to public health”. While there is undoubtedly an issue here, we need a strategy for dealing with the dangers of chemsex that works, rather than one that appears to favour transmitting a moral message instead of offering straightforward information.
Drug abuse and HIV continue to present profound challenges, but a climate of moral panic is counter-productive Continue reading... The Guardian
In the past week the public has been alerted to “risky behaviours” among gay men in London. Triggered by an editorial in the BMJ, the media has been warning of the “dangers of chemsex”, an activity labelled an “increasing risk to public health”. While there is undoubtedly an issue here, we need a strategy for dealing with the dangers of chemsex that works, rather than one that appears to favour transmitting a moral message instead of offering straightforward information.
Drug abuse and HIV continue to present profound challenges, but a climate of moral panic is counter-productive Continue reading... The Guardian
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