New target for campaign to Save Corby Urgent Care Centre services

New target for campaign to Save Corby Urgent Care Centre services Campaigners trying to ensure that Corby Urgent Care Centre keeps all its vital services are celebrating after hitting their initial fundraising target.

The Save Corby UCC online campaign group were trying to raise £2,500 to launch a judicial review. Northamptonshire Telegraph

Tough task: the NHS delivering for patients and staff in 2018/19

Tough task: the NHS delivering for patients and staff in 2018/19 Based on a survey of NHS trust leaders, this report reveals widespread scepticism about the ability of the service to meet performance and financial targets in 2018/19. It argues that patients' experience of care will continue to fall below the standards that trusts consider to be acceptable and that risk to quality and safety will grow, alongside the pressures on the workforce. NHS Providers

Productivity of the English National Health Service: 2015/16 update

Productivity of the English National Health Service: 2015/16 update This paper provides an update on the productivity growth of the NHS in England over 2014/15 to 2015/16. It finds that there has been a significant growth in NHS activity over this period, accompanied by a growth in staff. Whilst the rate of productivity in this period has also grown the report finds that from 2014/15 onwards, productivity growth has failed to outpace that of the economy. Centre for Health Economics

NHS England funding and resource: 2018/19: supporting 'Next Steps for the NHS Five Year Forward View'

NHS England funding and resource: 2018/19: supporting 'Next Steps for the NHS Five Year Forward View' This guidance contains information about NHS England's funding in 2018/19 and sets out how NHS England will, through the distribution of funding, people and resources, support the next steps to transform local health and care systems. NHS England

Planning, assuring and delivering service change for patients

Planning, assuring and delivering service change for patients This guidance is designed to be used by those considering, and involved in, substantial service change to navigate a clear path from inception to implementation. It will support commissioners and providers to consider how to take forward their proposals, including effective public involvement, enabling them to reach robust decisions on change in the best interests of their patients. NHS England

Unspoken UK Punjabi alcohol problem

Unspoken UK Punjabi alcohol problem For many British Punjabis, alcohol abuse is an open secret. Alcohol consumption is glamorised across different aspects of Punjabi culture and shame stops many seeking the help that they need. BBC News

How Amsterdam is reducing child obesity

How Amsterdam is reducing child obesity Childhood obesity rates are rising in many parts of the world - but in Amsterdam they are falling. The city's healthy-weight programme has seen a 12% drop in overweight and obese children. BBC News

Public health directors positive on transition from NHS

Public health directors positive on transition from NHS A survey marking the fifth anniversary of the transition of public health teams from the NHS to councils has revealed significant positivity among practitioners over the move.

The survey of members conducted by the Association of Directors of Public Health (ADPH) found 78.5% feel very positive or positive about the transition, with just under 2% of the 56 respondents saying they feel negative or very negative.

There were also largely positive responses to a series of questions on the impact of the move on public health teams and practice. Local Government Chronicle

GP visits to care homes reduce hospital admissions by nearly 40%

GP visits to care homes reduce hospital admissions by nearly 40% A new scheme piloted in four nursing homes in east London could save the NHS £1,000 a patient.

When Mary Mills had a mini stroke and broke her hip and leg, following two successive bad falls last year, she decided to move into a nursing home. Since November, Mills, 74, has been resident at Willows Care Home in Romford, east London. Due to her ongoing health needs, Mills needs regular appointments with her GP, Dr Muna Sheikh. But she does not have to be taken to the surgery or wait weeks to be seen.

Willows is one of four nursing homes across the London boroughs of Barking and Dagenham, Havering and Redbridge taking part in a £400,000 pilot scheme. Jointly funded by the prime minister’s challenge fund (which awarded £50m to 20 pilot projects in England to improve access to general practice) and the local clinical commissioning groups, Health 1000 is a dedicated primary care practice providing 431 residents of the homes with 8am to 8pm, seven-days-a-week GP support, as well as training and advice for staff and help from a consultant geriatrician.

This is about the patient. It’s about what the patient needs in the moment you see them. It’s common sense Continue reading... The Guardian

Global antibiotic consumption soars feeding spread of UK 'superbugs'

Global antibiotic consumption soars feeding spread of UK 'superbugs' Drug-resistant superbugs are rising in the UK because of lack of regulation of antibiotics in developing countries, experts have warned.

One of the biggest studies of antibiotic use around the world has established that while antibiotic use in Britain has slowed, global consumption jumped by 65 per cent, to 34.8 billion daily doses between 2000 and 2015.

The analysis, led by the Center for Disease Dynamics, Economics & Policy (CDDEP) in Washington DC, found the rise is being driven by skyrocketing use in low to middle income countries such as India, China and Turkey where consumption was up by 114 per cent.

Resistant infections already kill an estimated 5,000 people in Britain each year. And global deaths are projected to grow to 10m a year by 2030 – one every three seconds – unless urgent action is taken, say experts. The Daily Telegraph

See also:

• The true cost of antibiotic resistance in Britain and around the world The Daily Telegraph

Hospital retailers sell 632 MILLION fewer calories

Hospital retailers sell 632 MILLION fewer calories Hospital shops sold the equivalent of 632 million fewer calories last year because of an NHS crackdown on the 'epidemic of flab'.

WH Smith announced it sold 1.1 million less normal-sized chocolate bars since last April after it axed promotions - and removed a further 275,000 family-sized ones.

Other retailers such as Costa, Compass Group and The Royal Voluntary Service have all curbed calories across their stores on NHS premises.

And NHS England yesterday announced 175,000 more pieces of fruit had been sold in hospital stories across England.

Bosses ordered hospital shops last October to take super-size chocolate bars and 'grab bags' of sugary snacks off their shelves. The Daily Mail