Monday 5 June 2017

Bosom buddies: Northampton women start peer support group for breast cancer survivors

Bosom buddies: Northampton women start peer support group for breast cancer survivors Three Northampton breast cancer survivors have registered a charity and provide local peer support group to help others who have been diagnosed with the disease. Northampton Chronicle and Echo

General election 2017: who will be most generous to the NHS?

General election 2017: who will be most generous to the NHS? You might think that comparing the parties’ offers on the funding of the NHS would be a straightforward job. Surely nothing more than a little arithmetic, based on pounds, pence and growth rates.

Alas no. Though everyone promises more money, the parties start (and finish) counting the extra money from different years, include different elements of health spending and use different methodologies to tot up the numbers. I will try to set out the key measures of what the parties have offered, based on their headline manifesto commitments combined with public and private clarifications to fill in some of the gaps. Taking them in the order in which they were released. King's Fund

One in seven practices in Scotland has a long-term GP vacancy

One in seven practices in Scotland has a long-term GP vacancy One in seven practices in Scotland has at least one GP post that has been vacant for six months or longer, a BMA poll reveals. GP Online

A trauma doctor tells of staff flooding into work as casualties arrived

A trauma doctor tells of staff flooding into work as casualties arrived Royal London hospital consultant explains the mass casualty plan that brought in extra staff and facilitated multiple operations

Malik Ramadhan is a doctor and the divisional director of emergency care and trauma at the Royal London Hospital, where 12 casualties from the London Bridge attacks were taken. He was one of scores of doctors, nurses and other staff who were called into work on Saturday night to treat those injured. He spoke to Denis Campbell. The Guardian

The NHS needs a culture shift if it truly wants to put patient safety first | Richard Vize

The NHS needs a culture shift if it truly wants to put patient safety first | Richard Vize The Healthcare Safety Investigation Branch may be good for patients and staff, but will it tackle a piecemeal approach and design safety into the NHS?

The launch of the Healthcare Safety Investigation Branch (HSIB) marks an opportunity for substantial improvement in patient safety. But there may be fears that it will provide a veneer of progress, while the wider system still fails to tackle the root causes of safety problems. The Guardian