KGH celebrates excellence of medical students, junior doctors and consultants The professional excellence of medical students, junior doctors and consultants at Kettering General Hospital was celebrated with an annual awards ceremony. Northamptonshire Telegraph
Friday, 22 June 2018
Parkrun UK teams up with RCGP to 'prescribe' active lifestyles to patients and practice staff
Parkrun UK teams up with RCGP to 'prescribe' active lifestyles to patients and practice staff The initiative aims to improve the health and wellbeing of health care staff, patients and carers, reducing the need for lifelong medication.
GP practices will be encouraged to develop closer links with their local parkrun to become certified 'parkrun practices', with health care practitioners signposting patients and carers to parkrun, particularly those who are the least active and have long-term health conditions.
There are currently 535 parkruns across the UK with more events starting every week, many situated close to GP practices. They are free, 5k events that take place every Saturday morning year-round in public areas of open space. Each event is coordinated entirely by local volunteers and they are accessible for people of all ages and abilities. There are also 220 2k junior parkruns for 4-14-year-olds and their families on Sunday mornings. Royal College of General Practitioners (RCGP)
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GP practices will be encouraged to develop closer links with their local parkrun to become certified 'parkrun practices', with health care practitioners signposting patients and carers to parkrun, particularly those who are the least active and have long-term health conditions.
There are currently 535 parkruns across the UK with more events starting every week, many situated close to GP practices. They are free, 5k events that take place every Saturday morning year-round in public areas of open space. Each event is coordinated entirely by local volunteers and they are accessible for people of all ages and abilities. There are also 220 2k junior parkruns for 4-14-year-olds and their families on Sunday mornings. Royal College of General Practitioners (RCGP)
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New NHS funding must focus on services outside hospitals
New NHS funding must focus on services outside hospitals New funding must focus on services outside hospital including social care and community health services, according to NHS finance directors surveyed for the latest quarterly monitoring report from The King’s Fund.
Providing more care outside hospitals and closer to people's homes has long been a goal for NHS policy-makers. A survey of NHS trust finance directors and clinical commissioning group (CCG) finance leads carried out for the report asked them to identify their top three priorities for additional funding. King's Fund
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Providing more care outside hospitals and closer to people's homes has long been a goal for NHS policy-makers. A survey of NHS trust finance directors and clinical commissioning group (CCG) finance leads carried out for the report asked them to identify their top three priorities for additional funding. King's Fund
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Employers welcome settled status announcement for EU workers, says Cavendish Coalition
Employers welcome settled status announcement for EU workers, says Cavendish Coalition The Cavendish Coalition is a group of 37 health and social care organisations working together to ensure health and social care maintains an effective and sustainable workforce through Brexit and beyond. NHS Empoyers
Digital change in health and social care
Digital change in health and social care King's Fund - The use of digital technology in health and social care can improve quality, efficiency and patient experience as well as supporting more integrated care and improving the health of a population. This report shares practical learning from a series of case studies where largescale digital change is happening. King's Fund - Health Management and Policy Alert
How to fix the funding of health and social care
How to fix the funding of health and social care Institute for Government -This report calls for a parliamentary inquiry into how to raise money for health and social care both now and in the future. It dismisses the idea of a ‘Brexit dividend’ and argues that unless there is a clear way to raise the additional money it will have to come from cuts to other parts of public expenditure. King's Fund - Health Management and Policy Alert
Gosport scandal exposes blame culture in NHS, says Hunt
Gosport scandal exposes blame culture in NHS, says Hunt The health secretary, Jeremy Hunt, has suggested that the hundreds of deaths at Gosport War Memorial hospital could have been prevented if whistleblowers had been encouraged to come forward in the NHS.
He said the scandal exposed a blame culture across the health service that made medical staff reluctant to raise the alarm about mistakes. The Guardian
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He said the scandal exposed a blame culture across the health service that made medical staff reluctant to raise the alarm about mistakes. The Guardian
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Pathologists like me save lives daily. Yet so few people know what we do
Pathologists like me save lives daily. Yet so few people know what we do Those of us who work in ‘the lab’ often feel forgotten. But our role in the NHS is crucial – and we care deeply about patients. Anyone who watched BBC2’s fly-on-the-wall documentary Hospital might have heard of “the lab”. I am one of many who work there – and as a pathologist I often feel, as many of my lab colleagues do, like a forgotten or unknown entity. There are nearly 20 disciplines of pathology – and that number is growing – and 70% of all diagnoses made in the NHS involve pathology and biomedical science. The Royal College of Pathologists’ annual report [pdf] tells us that more than a billion tests are carried out annually – and NHS England says the number of pathology tests [pdf] equates to 14 for each person in England and Wales. The Guardian
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