Corby urgent care centre group seeks legal challenge Campaigners trying to save the existing service at Corby’s Urgent Care Centre have launched a fundraising bid to gain a judicial review into the decision to alter the service.
The Urgent Care Centre in Cottingham Road has been under intense scrutiny since the health body Corby CCG, which plans and pays for the borough’s health services, said the current service provision was not right for the town.
Bosses want to keep the facility open, but make it a pre-booked appointment-only service to ease pressure on local GPs and create extra slots for people who find it difficult to get an appointment at their own surgery. There will continue to be x-ray services but observation bays will be scrapped. The geographical base at Cottingham Road is also currently up for negotiation. Northamptonshire Telegraph
Friday, 16 March 2018
Northamptonshire County Council 'should be scrapped'
Northamptonshire County Council 'should be scrapped' Cash-strapped Northamptonshire County Council should be scrapped, according to a government report.
The report, ordered by Local Government Secretary Sajid Javid, recommends "a new start" which is "best achieved by the creation of two new unitary councils".
Council leader Heather Smith resigned following the report's publication.
Northampton North MP Michael Ellis called the management of the authority a "national scandal".
He said he was "appalled" by the report, which "makes for chilling reading". BBC Northampton
The report, ordered by Local Government Secretary Sajid Javid, recommends "a new start" which is "best achieved by the creation of two new unitary councils".
Council leader Heather Smith resigned following the report's publication.
Northampton North MP Michael Ellis called the management of the authority a "national scandal".
He said he was "appalled" by the report, which "makes for chilling reading". BBC Northampton
See also:
- Northamptonshire County Council best value inspection Ministry of Housing, Communities & Local Government
- Council response to inspection report Northamptonshire County Council
- BREAKING: Northants County Council leader Heather Smith has resigned Northampton Chronicle and Echo
- Two new councils should be created in Northamptonshire by 2020... all others should be abolished Northamptonshire Telegraph
- Report findings are 'very serious' for Northamptonshire, warns communities secretary Northamptonshire Telegraph
- Northamptonshire County Council says it is working to become a unitary authority Northamptonshire Telegraph
Closing the gap on BME representation in NHS leadership: not rocket science
Closing the gap on BME representation in NHS leadership: not rocket science The Workforce Race Equality Standard (WRES) was introduced in 2015 and aims to address the inequality experienced by staff from a black and minority ethnic (BME) background in the NHS, to ensure they have access to career opportunities and receive fair treatment at work. The King's Fund
Let’s be frank about the NHS
Let’s be frank about the NHS In a guest blog for our NHS and the public project, Laura Fulcher explains how her poor experience as an NHS patient has prompted her to question whether our affection for the NHS as a national institution is blinding us to how it needs to change and improve. The King's Fund
Official Statistics: Children living with parents in emotional distress: 2010 to 2016
Official Statistics: Children living with parents in emotional distress: 2010 to 2016 Public Health England has published an update to four indicators reporting on the ‘proportion of children living with’:
- at least one parent reporting symptoms of emotional distress
- a mother reporting symptoms of emotional distress
- a father reporting symptoms of emotional distress
- both parents reporting symptoms of emotional distress
Pharmacists funded to work in care homes in England
Pharmacists funded to work in care homes in England NHS England is planning to fund the recruitment of 240 pharmacists and pharmacy technicians to work in care homes to try to cut down on unnecessary medicines taken by the residents.
Care home residents often have one or more long-term health conditions, with some prescribed 10 or more medicines.
Trials have shown that pharmacists reviewing medicines reduced their use and improved patients' quality of life.
In one trial, an annual drug cost saving of £249 per patient was seen. BBC News
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Care home residents often have one or more long-term health conditions, with some prescribed 10 or more medicines.
Trials have shown that pharmacists reviewing medicines reduced their use and improved patients' quality of life.
In one trial, an annual drug cost saving of £249 per patient was seen. BBC News
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NHS accused of fuelling rise in opioid addiction
NHS accused of fuelling rise in opioid addiction Doctors warn the NHS is fuelling an addiction crisis because of an increase in the prescribing of powerful painkillers.
Nearly 24 million opioids, such as morphine, were prescribed in 2017 - equivalent to 2,700 packs an hour.
A drugs counsellor and former user told the BBC the NHS was "creating drug addicts".
The Royal College of GPs said doctors would not prescribe opioid painkillers as a "quick fix".
Opioids such as morphine, tramadol and fentanyl are super-strength painkillers, which can be highly addictive and can kill if misused. BBC News
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Nearly 24 million opioids, such as morphine, were prescribed in 2017 - equivalent to 2,700 packs an hour.
A drugs counsellor and former user told the BBC the NHS was "creating drug addicts".
The Royal College of GPs said doctors would not prescribe opioid painkillers as a "quick fix".
Opioids such as morphine, tramadol and fentanyl are super-strength painkillers, which can be highly addictive and can kill if misused. BBC News
See also:
- Practice Level Prescribing in England: a summary NHS Digital
- GPs will not prescribe opioids as a 'quick fix' solution, says RCGP Royal College of General Practitioners
- Prescription rises inevitable as patients live longer, says College Royal College of General Practitioners
- NHS figures reveal the 20 drugs dished out most The Daily Mail
- NHS 'creating drug addicts' as figures show surge in prescriptions for powerful opioid painkillers The Daily Telegraph
The GMC pursued Hadiza Bawa-Garba – and is losing doctors' respect
The GMC pursued Hadiza Bawa-Garba – and is losing doctors' respect Loss of confidence in the General Medical Council will diminish its ability to protect patients and support medics
The issues around the case of junior paediatrician Dr Hadiza Bawa-Garba and the death of six-year-old Jack Adcock have dominated headlines recently, and will continue to do so for some time. Seven years after Jack’s death as a result of negligence while in the care of specialists at Leicester Royal Infirmary, the case remains controversial.
It’s truly a sad event, catastrophic on all sides: for the parents, the continued media attention ensures that their grief continues; for the trainee who had always aspired to be a doctor, her dream is in tatters.In the eyes of many doctors, it is catastrophic, too, for regulator the General Medical Council (GMC), which has taken a trainee to court to remove her right to practise as a doctor. Continue reading... The Guardian
The issues around the case of junior paediatrician Dr Hadiza Bawa-Garba and the death of six-year-old Jack Adcock have dominated headlines recently, and will continue to do so for some time. Seven years after Jack’s death as a result of negligence while in the care of specialists at Leicester Royal Infirmary, the case remains controversial.
It’s truly a sad event, catastrophic on all sides: for the parents, the continued media attention ensures that their grief continues; for the trainee who had always aspired to be a doctor, her dream is in tatters.In the eyes of many doctors, it is catastrophic, too, for regulator the General Medical Council (GMC), which has taken a trainee to court to remove her right to practise as a doctor. Continue reading... The Guardian
The NHS needs a reliable source of income. Here’s where to find it | Norman Warner and John Oldham
The NHS needs a reliable source of income. Here’s where to find it | Norman Warner and John Oldham From properly taxing tech giants to levies on property owned by overseas firms – there are ways to fund our health service
Our NHS is nearly 70 years old. Like many older people it has developed some chronic conditions. It hasn’t changed its model for delivering services sufficiently since Nye Bevan’s day to meet the massive changes in demography, complex disease profiles and the expectations of those it serves.
But even if it became much more efficient and worked more effectively with its sister service, adult social care, this would not resolve a fundamental problem. This is that in today’s world a tax-funded, pooled-risk healthcare system such as the NHS that is free at the point of clinical need requires a more generous funding system than we currently provide or are contemplating. The inconvenient truth for politicians and public alike is that if, as a country, we want an NHS of the kind we like, we have to agree collectively on a more generous and reliable funding system.
The health and care system needs to work more effectively with patients to co-produce better health and wellbeing Continue reading... The Guardian
Our NHS is nearly 70 years old. Like many older people it has developed some chronic conditions. It hasn’t changed its model for delivering services sufficiently since Nye Bevan’s day to meet the massive changes in demography, complex disease profiles and the expectations of those it serves.
But even if it became much more efficient and worked more effectively with its sister service, adult social care, this would not resolve a fundamental problem. This is that in today’s world a tax-funded, pooled-risk healthcare system such as the NHS that is free at the point of clinical need requires a more generous funding system than we currently provide or are contemplating. The inconvenient truth for politicians and public alike is that if, as a country, we want an NHS of the kind we like, we have to agree collectively on a more generous and reliable funding system.
The health and care system needs to work more effectively with patients to co-produce better health and wellbeing Continue reading... The Guardian
New thinking is required to create desperately needed new antibiotics. We must act now
New thinking is required to create desperately needed new antibiotics. We must act now Put yourself, for a moment, in the shoes of a pharmaceutical company boss.
You face a big decision about where to direct your R&D budget. Both options require multi-billion pound investment over 10 to 15 years in cutting-edge but high-risk research.
You could focus on cancer drugs where competition is fierce but prices predictably high and market size easy to forecast.
Or, you could choose to develop new antibiotics; drugs essential to modern medicine, but with a peculiarly unpredictable market, often low prices and breakthrough products likely to be reserved for only a handful of hardest-to-treat patients.
The dilemma cuts to the heart of the tricky yet crucial question of how to fix the dysfunctional antibiotics market. The Daily Telegraph
You face a big decision about where to direct your R&D budget. Both options require multi-billion pound investment over 10 to 15 years in cutting-edge but high-risk research.
You could focus on cancer drugs where competition is fierce but prices predictably high and market size easy to forecast.
Or, you could choose to develop new antibiotics; drugs essential to modern medicine, but with a peculiarly unpredictable market, often low prices and breakthrough products likely to be reserved for only a handful of hardest-to-treat patients.
The dilemma cuts to the heart of the tricky yet crucial question of how to fix the dysfunctional antibiotics market. The Daily Telegraph
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