Thursday, 8 June 2017
NHS standards and performance: is prioritisation the answer we’ve been looking for?
NHS standards and performance: is prioritisation the answer we’ve been looking for? Our June 2017 quarterly monitoring report (QMR) showed that NHS performance on key access targets over the financial year 2016/17 continued to deteriorate. For the ambulance response time, A&E four-hour waiting time and 62-day cancer treatment targets 2016/17 was the third year in a row that performance was below the standard; for elective waiting times (18 weeks from referral to treatment), it was the first. King's Fund
Ramadan 2017
Ramadan 2017 Useful information and guidance for employers and staff in the NHS during the month of Ramadan. NHS Employers
Homeless babies and starving parents: the poverty seen by doctors
Homeless babies and starving parents: the poverty seen by doctors A survey of 250 paediatricians reveals a shocking return to old-fashioned poverty that will hit future generations
Nearly one in three children in the UK – a total of four million – live in poverty. It’s a statistic that perhaps many people acknowledge is shocking, but they don’t appreciate its implications.
Living in poverty can have all sorts of damaging effects on a child, not least on their health. Poverty makes children sick; those living in the most deprived areas have far worse health outcomes than children from the most affluent. They are more likely to be overweight or obese, suffer from asthma, have poorly managed diabetes and experience mental health problems. Infant mortality is more than twice as high in the lowest socio-economic groups compared with the highest groups. The Guardian
Nearly one in three children in the UK – a total of four million – live in poverty. It’s a statistic that perhaps many people acknowledge is shocking, but they don’t appreciate its implications.
Living in poverty can have all sorts of damaging effects on a child, not least on their health. Poverty makes children sick; those living in the most deprived areas have far worse health outcomes than children from the most affluent. They are more likely to be overweight or obese, suffer from asthma, have poorly managed diabetes and experience mental health problems. Infant mortality is more than twice as high in the lowest socio-economic groups compared with the highest groups. The Guardian
4 out of 5 toddlers not taken to the dentist
4 out of 5 toddlers not taken to the dentist The vast majority of parents fail to take young children to the dentist regularly, official figures reveal.
Some 80 per cent of one and two-year-olds in England did not visit an NHS dentist last year, national statistics show.
The figure was 60 per cent for children aged one to four, according to data from NHS Digital.
This is despite the fact that NHS dental care for children is free. Daily Mail
Some 80 per cent of one and two-year-olds in England did not visit an NHS dentist last year, national statistics show.
The figure was 60 per cent for children aged one to four, according to data from NHS Digital.
This is despite the fact that NHS dental care for children is free. Daily Mail
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