NICE diabetes guidance backs GP referral to lifestyle programmes

NICE diabetes guidance backs GP referral to lifestyle programmes NICE has updated its 2012 guidance on preventing type 2 diabetes to put greater importance on lifestyle-change programmes to promote healthier diets and exercise in high-risk patients. GP Online

See also:

• Diabetes test for everyone over 40 revealed by officials Mail Online
• More than a million people should be offered lifestyle tips as a way to avoid type 2 diabetes NICE

Childhood vaccines may go into one jab

Childhood vaccines may go into one jab A technology that could eventually see every childhood vaccine delivered in a single injection has been developed by US researchers.

Their one-shot solution stores the vaccine in microscopic capsules that release the initial dose and then boosters at specific times.

The approach has been shown to work in mouse studies, described in the journal Science. BBC News - Health

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• 'Super injection' delivers several doses of drug at once The Daily Mail

Number of written complaints about NHS increases 4.9 per cent

Number of written complaints about NHS increases 4.9 per cent There were 208,400 written complaints received by the NHS during 2016/172 - up 4.9 per cent on the previous year, NHS Digital figures released today show. The figures mean on average 571 written complaints were made every day.

The report, entitled Data on Written Complaints in the NHS, 2016/17, shows numbers of complaints about both primary and secondary care. NHS Digital

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• Complaints about primary care surge amid pressure on GPs GP Online

NHS efficiency map

NHS efficiency map Healthcare Financial Management Association -This map promotes best practice in identifying, delivering and monitoring cost improvement programmes in the NHS. It contains links to a range of tools and guidance to help NHS bodies improve their efficiency. The map is split into three sections: enablers for efficiency, provider efficiency and system efficiency. It highlights the successes some NHS providers have had in delivering specific efficiency schemes and provides sign-posts to existing tools and reference materials. It also includes updated definitions for different types of efficiency. King's Fund - Health Management and Policy Alert

Specialised Commissioning: Service development policy and methods

Specialised Commissioning: Service development policy and methods The service development policy which sets out NHS England’s approach for making decisions about which new treatments and interventions to routinely commission, and the approach used for updating existing service specifications, or creating new ones. NHS England

Corby Avon supports baby unit with employee-voted donation

Corby Avon supports baby unit with employee-voted donation Staff based at Corby’s Avon Cosmetics have voted to donate their £5,000 community award to a cause close to their hearts. The Special Care Baby Unit (SCBU) at Kettering General Hospital was nominated by Avon employees at its Corby site through their Associates Choice scheme. SCBU is a neonatal intensive care unit which looks after the welfare of newborn babies, mainly those born premature or who require some form of special high dependency or intensive care nursing. Northamptonshire Telegraph

Policy paper: Health Service Safety Investigations Bill

Policy paper: Health Service Safety Investigations Bill The draft bill proposes setting up the Health Service Safety Investigations Body (HSSIB).

The HSSIB will conduct investigations which focus on learning from patient safety incidents in the NHS, to reduce health care harm and improve patient care.

The draft bill allows the HSSIB to conduct investigations using ‘safe space’. ‘Safe space’ is a set of legal powers that prevent the HSSIB from disclosing the information it gathers in the course of an investigation. Gov.UK

Northampton General Hospital reveals new £7,500 patient dementia garden

Northampton General Hospital reveals new £7,500 patient dementia garden A garden at Northampton General Hospital has undergone a makeover as part of an ongoing Do It For Dementia campaign to make the environment as dementia-friendly as possible. Formerly a grassy bank, the therapy garden now has raised flower beds, which means that patients can touch and smell the plants without having to bend if they have mobility limitations. Northampton Chronicle and Echo