Northampton General Hospital working to improve patient safety with orthopaedic data audit

Northampton General Hospital working to improve patient safety with orthopaedic data audit  Northampton General Hospital has successfully completed the national programme of local data audits to improve patient safety. The registry collects orthopaedic data to provide evidence to support patient safety, standards in quality of care, and overall cost effectiveness in joint replacement surgery. Northampton Chronicle & Echo

News story: Tuberculosis (TB) cases fall by over a third in last 6 years

Tuberculosis (TB) cases fall by over a third in last 6 years New Public Health England (PHE) data released for World TB day show a 9.3% decline in cases of TB in 2017. This represents the lowest rate of TB in 35 years. This contributes to the 38% decline in the number of people with TB in England over the last 6 years.
However, there is still more work to do. TB is one of the leading causes of death worldwide and England has one of the highest rates in Western Europe with just under 5,200 people affected by TB in 2017. Public Health England

IAPT pathway for people with long-term physical conditions and medically unexplained symptoms

IAPT pathway for people with long-term physical conditions and medically unexplained symptoms From April 2018 all CCGs are expected to expand Improving Access to Psychological Therapies by commissioning (IAPT) services integrated into physical healthcare pathways. This document supports this expansion by setting out the treatment pathway that underpins the access and waiting time standards, which all services should seek to measure themselves against. NHS England

NHS boss demands maximum punishment for every violent offence against paramedics

NHS boss demands maximum punishment for every violent offence against paramedics The head of NHS England, Simon Stevens, told a gathering of ambulance service top brass that he wanted to see the authorities take the toughest possible action against members of the public who subject frontline ambulance crews and control room staff to violent acts or abuse while on duty. NHS England

Supporting employees' mid-life career needs

Supporting employees' mid-life career needs As part of the Department for Work and Pensions' Fuller Working Lives strategy (2017), the National Careers Service has teamed up with local enterprise partnerships to trial supporting local employers with their employees’ mid-life career needs. NHS Employers

Housing and health: opportunities for sustainability and transformation partnerships

Housing and health: opportunities for sustainability and transformation partnerships This King's Fund report sets out areas where sustainability and transformation partnerships and emerging integrated care systems can make more of the contribution of the housing sector to improving health. King's Fund
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Theresa May refuses to intervene over man's £54000 NHS cancer bill

Theresa May refuses to intervene over man's £54000 NHS cancer bill Theresa May has refused to intervene in the case of Albert Thompson, the London cancer patient asked to pay £54,000 for treatment despite having lived in the UK for 44 years, as it emerged that there could be tens of thousands of people in a similarly uncertain immigration position.
Thompson, 63, is not receiving the radiotherapy treatment he needs for prostate cancer because he has been unable to provide officials with sufficient documentary evidence showing that he has lived in the UK continuously since arriving from Jamaica as a teenager in 1973. He is unable to pay the £54,000 fee. The Guardian

NHS Trust facing backlash over staff transfers

NHS Trust facing backlash over staff transfers An NHS trust is facing a backlash against plans to transfer more than 2,000 staff to a private company set up to run some of its services. Fears have been raised that the plan by Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust would lead to a “two-tier workforce” with some staff employed on worse terms and conditions than others. Yorkshire Post

Almost half of online GP providers unsafe, warns CQC report

Almost half of online GP providers unsafe, warns CQC report Standards of care at 43% of non-NHS online GP services in England are below required safety levels, according to the CQC. Findings published on Friday reveal a sharp improvement since August 2017, when GPonline reported that more than four out of five online services were considered unsafe by the regulator.

But the quality of online GP services remains far below the standard set by NHS GP practices - of which 89% are rated good or outstanding on safety by the CQC, with just 2% inadequate on this measure. GP Online