Thursday 18 January 2018

VIDEO: Go behind the scenes with Northamptonshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust

VIDEO: Go behind the scenes with Northamptonshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust Northamptonshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust (NHFT) is offering a closer look at local healthcare with its #weareNHFT video online. NHFT has launched a video and magazine to give people a glimpse of some of the behind the scenes work going on across hospitals and within the community.

It is part of the on-going #weareNHFT campaign to demonstrate the values and work of the dedicated staff across the trust. Northamptonshire Telegraph

KGH marks 10 years of life-saving bowel screening

KGH marks 10 years of life-saving bowel screening Kettering General Hospital is celebrating 10 years of providing a life-saving bowel screening service which has found almost 800 cancers.

The trust went live with its first bowel screening patient in December 2007 when it became the screening centre for the Leicestershire, Northamptonshire and Rutland area as part of a national scheme to introduce bowel cancer screening across the country. Northamptonshire Telegraph

Guidance: The wellbeing of 15-year-olds: analysis of the What About YOUth? survey

Guidance: The wellbeing of 15-year-olds: analysis of the What About YOUth? survey A report highlighting associations between health behaviours, other self-rated life factors (such as bullying and body image) and wellbeing. Public Health England

The Hidden Cancer - The Need to Improve Blood Cancer Care

The Hidden Cancer - The Need to Improve Blood Cancer Care This report makes important recommendations on how to make improvements and ensure that we all work together to raise awareness of blood cancer. It is also a call to the Government and NHS to ensure that blood cancers and needs of blood cancer patients are properly addressed. All-Party Parliamentary Group on Blood Cancer

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No homes for nurses: how NHS land is being sold off to build unaffordable homes

No homes for nurses: how NHS land is being sold off to build unaffordable homes This report examines the NHS sites that have been sold under the Government’s public land sale programme. These include hospitals, community health centres and other health service infrastructure that have been identified as surplus by the NHS. It compares the homes planned on these sites to the average wages of NHS key workers. New Economics Foundation

Pressure 'easing' on busy A&E units

Pressure 'easing' on busy A&E units Pressures on busy A&E units have begun to ease in England, but hospitals still remain over-crowded, NHS figures show.

Latest weekly data up to last Sunday showed the number of times ambulances have been delayed waiting outside A&E fell by nearly a quarter to 12,500.

Bed closures due to the vomiting bug norovirus have also fallen.

But NHS England warned the cold snap expected to hit the north of England over the next few days could lead to an increase in illnesses. BBC News

East of England ambulance delays kill 20, says MP

East of England ambulance delays kill 20, says MP Twenty people died after ambulance delays over 12 days when a trust failed to move into its highest state of emergency, an MP has said.

Labour's Clive Lewis told the Commons senior managers wanted to move East of England Ambulance Service Trust to so-called REAP 4 on 19 December.

Mr Lewis said the decision was not taken until 31 December.

The trust said it experienced "significant pressure" over the winter period. BBC News

Minister for loneliness appointed to continue Jo Cox's work

Minister for loneliness appointed to continue Jo Cox's work A minister for loneliness, a project first started by the late MP Jo Cox, has been announced by Downing Street.

Tracey Crouch said she was proud to take on the "generational challenge" to tackle an issue affecting about nine million UK people, young and old.

The 42-year-old said she would work across political parties in the role.

The Commission on Loneliness was first set up by Ms Cox, who was killed before the EU referendum.

A 2017 report said loneliness was as harmful to health as smoking 15 cigarettes a day. BBC News

Family doctors working 'beyond safe levels', says GPs' leader

Family doctors working 'beyond safe levels', says GPs' leader As doctors describe dealing with up to 70 patients a day, college warns of risks to public health

GPs across Britain are working above safe levels because of relentless and unmanageable workloads, leading doctors have warned. Continue reading... The Guardian

Half of England's care home providers failing the elderly

Half of England's care home providers failing the elderly Half of England’s major care home providers are failing their elderly residents in at least a quarter of their properties, say researchers. For some, the proportion is even higher. The Daily Mail