Redrawing the health and social care architecture: exploring the role of national bodies in enabling and supporting the delivery of local health and care services

Redrawing the health and social care architecture: exploring the role of national bodies in enabling and supporting the delivery of local health and care services

This research finds that 70 per cent of NHS staff in England do not understand the role of the national bodies in the healthcare system. The report calls for the government to clarify the roles of these bodies and move to a more devolved system where local areas are given more accountability and responsibility. It also suggests that local areas should be given the power to raise funds for their regional health service. PricewaterhouseCoopers
Report
PricewaterhouseCoopers - press release

• NHS staff want reform of healthcare system Onmedica

National Child Measurement Programme shows increased obesity prevalence in primary schools

National Child Measurement Programme shows increased obesity prevalence in primary schools

The prevalence of obesity has risen from 9.1 per cent in 2014-15 to 9.3 per cent in 2015-16 for children in reception (2) and from 19.1 per cent to 19.8 per cent for those in year 6.
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• Child obesity rising again, NHS report reveals Guardian

Making personal budgets dementia friendly: a guide for local authorities

Making personal budgets dementia friendly: a guide for local authorities 

Alzheimer’s Society has produced a personal budgets guide of easy and cost-effective actions councils can take to improve the personal budgets process for people with dementia and their carers. The aim of this is to help local authorities deliver person-centred care.

Alzheimer's Society

Guide

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Alzheimer's Society - news

Managing workload

Managing workload

We all work in fast-paced environments, where there are tight deadlines that regularly need to be met. Do your to-do piles only ever seem to get bigger, your inbox only ever become fuller and do you seem to have an ever decreasing amount of time to complete your work in?

NHS Networks

Health is more than NHS doctors, nurses and hospitals

Health is more than NHS doctors, nurses and hospitals

Are we in danger of seeing our health too much in terms of ambulances, hospitals and GP surgeries and not the bigger picture of how we live? 

BBC News

Health scare

Health scare

Given the complexity of antibiotics resistance, what should we do to tackle the problem? 

BBC News

Ebola adapted to easily infect people

Ebola adapted to easily infect people

Ebola dramatically adapted to infect human tissues with ease in the first few months of the Ebola outbreak.

BBC News

Researchers discover new method of spotting tumour cells in blood

Researchers discover new method of spotting tumour cells in blood

The new method of spotting tumour cells in the blood, discovered by researchers at Queen Mary University of London, is still in its early stages but could soon revolutionise treatment. 

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