NGH introduces new measures to learn from patients' experience
Former patients and their families shared their experience of care at the hospital and were invited to share their thoughts on what might make every patients' care a positive experience. A random selection of 26 patients who were inpatients in May were invited to attend the event with their families.
NGH News
Monday, 8 August 2016
New framework for transformation of care for people with learning disabilities
New framework for transformation of care for people with learning disabilities
A new core skills education and training framework has been launched to help improve the care health and social care staff deliver to people with learning disabilities.
Developed in partnership by Health Education England (HEE), Skills for Health and Skills for Care, the framework sets out the core skills and knowledge that are common and transferable across different types of service provision. It also provides guidance and standards for the delivery of training to develop required skills and knowledge, and achieve desired learning outcomes.
NHS Networks
A new core skills education and training framework has been launched to help improve the care health and social care staff deliver to people with learning disabilities.
Developed in partnership by Health Education England (HEE), Skills for Health and Skills for Care, the framework sets out the core skills and knowledge that are common and transferable across different types of service provision. It also provides guidance and standards for the delivery of training to develop required skills and knowledge, and achieve desired learning outcomes.
NHS Networks
Mind launches workplace wellbeing index
Mind launches workplace wellbeing index
Mind has released a new wellbeing index for workplace health. The tool is designed to help employers work out what they are doing well and identify gaps where they could support their employees more with mental health issues.
NHS Networks
Mind has released a new wellbeing index for workplace health. The tool is designed to help employers work out what they are doing well and identify gaps where they could support their employees more with mental health issues.
NHS Networks
Britons under-report calorie intake, study suggests
Britons under-report calorie intake, study suggests
Britons are under-reporting their daily calorie consumption - potentially misleading policymakers attempting to curb obesity, a report suggests.
BBC News
Britons are under-reporting their daily calorie consumption - potentially misleading policymakers attempting to curb obesity, a report suggests.
BBC News
GMC set to toughen up PLAB test for overseas doctors
GMC set to toughen up PLAB test for overseas doctors
The Professional and Linguistic Assessments Board (PLAB) test will become 'more rigorous' from next month following an overhaul by the GMC to both the written and practical parts of the test.
GP Online
The Professional and Linguistic Assessments Board (PLAB) test will become 'more rigorous' from next month following an overhaul by the GMC to both the written and practical parts of the test.
GP Online
NHS has spent more than £1.75m on homeopathy, despite admitting there is 'no good-quality evidence it works'
NHS has spent more than £1.75m on homeopathy, despite admitting there is 'no good-quality evidence it works'
Exclusive: The NHS has spent more than £1.75 million on homeopathy ingredients over the last decade, despite its own guidelines stating- 'There is no good-quality evidence that homeopathy is effective as a treatment for any health condition'.
Independent
Exclusive: The NHS has spent more than £1.75 million on homeopathy ingredients over the last decade, despite its own guidelines stating- 'There is no good-quality evidence that homeopathy is effective as a treatment for any health condition'.
Independent
A future of mobile-centric healthcare could save lives
A future of mobile-centric healthcare could save lives
Tech innovations can help patients self-manage their conditions and keep track of older people as well as those in care homes
Picture the scene: an elderly woman with bronchitis is overcome by breathlessness while out for an afternoon shop. Instead of ignoring the problem, she immediately turns to her mobile phone, which is measuring her breathing rate and integrating that reading with other personal health data. The program decides that she needs a GP consultation within two hours, books it at a local walk-in centre and even tells her which bus to catch.
Far from being science fiction, this kind of scenario represents the kind of reality the NHS must work towards, says Sir Bruce Keogh, NHS England’s medical director. With spiralling costs, demand increases and staffing issues squeezing existing resources, a future of mobile-centric healthcare would increase efficiency – and maybe save lives.
A few well-thought-out and correctly aimed interventions will do far more than a scattergun introduction of funky toys.
Tech innovations can help patients self-manage their conditions and keep track of older people as well as those in care homes
Picture the scene: an elderly woman with bronchitis is overcome by breathlessness while out for an afternoon shop. Instead of ignoring the problem, she immediately turns to her mobile phone, which is measuring her breathing rate and integrating that reading with other personal health data. The program decides that she needs a GP consultation within two hours, books it at a local walk-in centre and even tells her which bus to catch.
Far from being science fiction, this kind of scenario represents the kind of reality the NHS must work towards, says Sir Bruce Keogh, NHS England’s medical director. With spiralling costs, demand increases and staffing issues squeezing existing resources, a future of mobile-centric healthcare would increase efficiency – and maybe save lives.
A few well-thought-out and correctly aimed interventions will do far more than a scattergun introduction of funky toys.
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