Body cameras improve inpatient safety and quality of care - NursingNotes

Body cameras improve inpatient safety and quality of care Northamptonshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust trialled body cameras as part of their battle against violence and aggression.

The trial, which saw 12 cameras trialled by 60 staff for three months across five mental health wards at Northamptonshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust, reduced the need for emergency restraint from 41 incidents to 18. NursingNotes

£750,000 investment in new beds and mattresses at KGH

£750,000 investment in new beds and mattresses at KGH Kettering General Hospital has invested £750,000 replacing more than a quarter of its 610 beds with better and more modern beds and mattresses to improve patient comfort, care and safety. Northamptonshire Telegraph

Diversity within diversity: the NHS workforce from overseas

Diversity within diversity: the NHS workforce from overseas Amid news that hundreds of doctors from overseas have been refused visas to work in the UK due to a migration cap, Fiona Johnson reflects on NHS workforce planning and the changing profile of our foreign staff. The Nuffield Trust

Cross-party approach to the NHS and social care

Cross-party approach to the NHS and social care When MPs from different parties come together to argue for more funding for the NHS and social care, it is time to sit up and take notice.

Last week’s statement by Nick Boles (Conservative), Liz Kendall (Labour), and Norman Lamb (Liberal Democrat) could not have been clearer. Spending on the NHS and social care needs to increase by substantially more than inflation over the next 20 years and should be paid for by a dedicated tax. The King's Fund

Confronting Dr Robot: Creating a people-powered future for AI in health

Confronting Dr Robot: Creating a people-powered future for AI in health A new report looking at what artificial intelligence might mean for our experience of healthcare.

Artificial Intelligence could become part of the front door to healthcare. It could make the health system simpler, more accessible, more responsive, more sustainable, and put patients more in control. But there’s a risk that the public could experience it more as a barrier than an open door, blocking access to care, offering opaque advice and dehumanising healthcare in every sense. Nesta

See also:

• Report on international practice on digital apps Scottish Centre for Telehealth and Telecare

Freedom to speak up guidance for NHS trusts

Freedom to speak up guidance for NHS trusts Guidance for NHS trusts and foundation trust boards on freedom to speak up measures. NHS Improvement

Thousands of calls made to breast screen error helpline

Thousands of calls made to breast screen error helpline More than 8,000 calls have been made to a helpline since it was revealed that 450,000 women were not invited to routine breast cancer screening due to a computer error.

Public Health England says it was not aware of a national problem with the screening programme until January.

But the BBC understands that two NHS trusts in England raised concerns about IT issues as early as March 2017.

They were told the problems were a local - not national - matter. BBC News

See also:

• Breast screening: Is the NHS programme working? BBC News
• Breast cancer helplines overwhelmed amid calls for health chief to quit over screening scandal  The Daily Telegraph
• Breast cancer victim tells of her anger after waiting an hour to get through to NHS helpline The Daily Telegraph
• In the NHS breast-screening scandal, first priority must be the women The Guardian
• Jeremy Hunt's rhetoric over breast cancer screening looks overheated The Guardian
• The cancer screening scandal is no surprise – older women are too often ignored The Guardian
• Breast cancer screening scandal could cost £100m in compensation, lawyers warn The Independent

Xanax: Children as young as 11 taking anxiety drug

Xanax: Children as young as 11 taking anxiety drug Children as young as 11 are being treated for abusing the anxiety drug Xanax, the BBC has found.

Drugs charity Addaction said it was also aware of 13-year-olds "dealing" the tranquiliser on school premises.

The BBC has seen a number of letters from head teachers to parents raising concerns over increasing abuse of prescription medications.

One teacher said he feared pupils had made an assumption that taking Xanax was safer than using illegal drugs. BBC News

'It's about celebrating life - not doom and gloom'

'It's about celebrating life - not doom and gloom' In 2016 Paul Meisak was told he had terminal cancer.

Paul, who lives with his wife Bridget just outside Glasgow, has asked BBC Radio 5 live to follow him as he meets with oncologists, chooses his hospice and organises his funeral.

Paul’s attitude is positive: "This is about celebrating life." BBC News

Child mortality rate 'one and a half times higher in England than in Sweden'

Child mortality rate 'one and a half times higher in England than in Sweden' More than 6,000 fewer children would have died between 2003 and 2012 if England’s rate had been the same as Sweden’s, researchers said

Deaths in children under five occur one and half times more often in England than in Sweden, a study has found.

If the child mortality rate had been the same in England as in Sweden during the 10-year period analysed, more than 600 fewer children would have died per year, researchers said. Continue reading... The Guardian

10-minute GP consultations are a 'DISASTER', warns royal college chair

10-minute GP consultations are a 'DISASTER', warns royal college chair The British Medical Association (BMA) and the Royal College of General Practitioners have said that 10-minute consultations are inadequate considering the complexity of patients' needs. The Daily Mail