Week of celebrations for Northamptonshire Healthcare Foundation Trust

Week of celebrations for Northamptonshire Healthcare Foundation Trust As the NHS celebrates its 70th birthday, Northamptonshire Healthcare Foundation Trust (NHFT) is taking the opportunity to thank those who contribute to the on-going work of the trust.

The week of celebrations includes NHFT staff attending the Royal College of Nursing Awards (Wednesday) and Health Service Journal Patient Safety awards next week (July 9). There will also be a recruitment event on Saturday (July 7).

Chief executive Angela Hillery said: “Without the dedicated staff and clinicians and the valuable input of patients, carers, governors and members we would not be able to deliver the outstanding care we are so proud of.” Northamptonshire Telegraph

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• Happy 70th birthday NHS Northamptonshire Healthcare Foundation Trust

The NHS at 70: A timeline in pictures

The NHS at 70: A timeline in pictures On 5 July 1948, 70 years ago on Thursday, the National Health Service (NHS) was born.

We look at seven decades of the development of the NHS, alongside medical advancements, highlighting events that have been documented with archive photography. BBC News

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• Young volunteers, long-serving domestic assistant and ‘virtual surgeon’ among winners of NHS birthday awards NHS England
• NHS: A Bevan family business BBC News
• NHS at 70: Early patient pays tribute to life saving treatment BBC News
• NHS at 70: Aneira Thomas the first NHS baby BBC News
• NHS Street: Voices from Aneurin Bevan's Tredegar BBC News
• The NHS at 70: How can we help it survive? BBC News
• NHS at 70: the charts that show how the health service has changed since 1948 The Daily Telegraph
• NHS heroes: doctors, nurses, porters, therapists on the service at 70 The Guardian
• What does the NHS need to survive for another 70 years? | Richard Horton, Clare Gerada, and others The Guardian
• The birth of the NHS - in pictures The Guardian
• How the NHS inspired 60 years of heart-stopping TV drama The Guardian
• NHS at 70: How it took nearly a century for the health service to be formed The Independent
• NHS at 70: The scientific breakthroughs that revolutionised the service The Independent
• I've watched the deterioration of the NHS at first hand. Trust me when I say as a political reporter, this is our country's biggest issue The Independent

Majority of public willing to pay more tax for NHS

Majority of public willing to pay more tax for NHS The vast majority of people say they would be happy to pay more tax for a NHS that was “improved a great deal”, according to results of a poll released today by the NHS Confederation.

The representative poll of 1,003 adults across England, Scotland and Wales carried out by Ipsos MORI for the NHS Confederation asked people about their willingness for tax rises designed to boost funding of the health service. OnMedica

Fair shares for mental health has to be the NHS’s priority

Fair shares for mental health has to be the NHS’s priority | Wendy Burn The achievements of our health service are justly lauded, but a crucial part of it is unacceptably underfunded and neglected

The added disability from which our health system suffers is the isolation of mental health from the rest of the health services.” So said Nye Bevan, the founder of the NHS, in 1946, two years before the creation of what is now the world’s largest publicly funded health service. It’s still true. Mental health services, the poor relation of the NHS, are often delivered on remote sites in dilapidated buildings. My clinic room is a windowless cupboard. Continue reading... The Guardian

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• A safe space: NHS unit on frontline of child mental health crisis The Guardian

The only way to protect our NHS? Fund social care

The only way to protect our NHS? Fund social care | Sonia Sodha The founding principles of the health service must be extended to social care. Otherwise the NHS will be run into the ground

There’s so much of modern life we take for granted, but not the NHS. It has a special place in British hearts, outranking the armed forces and the royal family in what makes us proud to be British. But the NHS is facing two existential tests on its 70th birthday, both of which exert big cost pressures.

Back in the 50s, much of its work involved doling out treatment for one-off illnesses such as pneumonia and tuberculosis. Today, those serious infections are less common and the greatest demands on the NHS come from chronic conditions that people can live with for decades – diabetes, cancer, dementia – some associated with unhealthy lifestyles. Continue reading... The Guardian

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• Radical reform of social care is the key to saving Bevan's NHS dream The Independent

Getting results: why NHS clinical trials are the envy of the world

Getting results: why NHS clinical trials are the envy of the world From cancer to dementia, UK patients are benefiting from a democratised system of research
NHS at 70: all our anniversary coverage in one place

It started with a lump on Cathy Perkins’ index finger. The viola player didn’t know what it was; nor did her GP. The eventual diagnosis in 2008 from the Christie cancer hospital in Manchester was melanoma – skin cancer – but after treatment all seemed well. Then in 2013, a routine scan showed it had come back and spread to her lungs.

“They came back with this really bad diagnosis of just a few weeks to live,” said Perkins. “I burst into tears. I packed in work on the spot. I just remember being incredibly angry that my planned retirement had gone pear-shaped.” Continue reading... The Guardian

Second hospital investigating nurse Lucy Letby after arrest on suspicion of murdering eight babies

Second hospital investigating nurse Lucy Letby after arrest on suspicion of murdering eight babies A second hospital has launched an investigation after it emerged that a nurse arrested on suspicion of the murder of eight babies had spent time training there.

Lucy Letby, 28, who is also accused of the attempted murder of another six newborns, is in custody while police search her home in connection with the deaths at the Countess of Chester Hospital.

Liverpool Women's Hospital on Merseyside announced on Wednesday that it was involved in the police investigation and was reviewing patients who attended the hospital during Ms Letby's placement there. The Daily Telegraph

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• Liverpool hospital announces review of care after nurse arrested on suspicion of murdering eight babies The Independent

270,000 people gave up smoking last year in the UK, official figures show

270,000 people gave up smoking last year in the UK, official figures show Government data today reveals 14.9 per cent of adults across England smoked in 2017 - the equivalent of 6.1 million people. This is down from the 15.5 per cent recorded in 2016. The Daily Mail