Hundreds of nurses will be encouraged to relocate to Northampton at NHS open days

Hundreds of nurses will be encouraged to relocate to Northampton at NHS open days Hospitals and NHS trust in Northampton are holding a series of open days, with some featuring on-the-spot interviews.

It is part of this autumn's ‘Best of Both Worlds’ recruitment campaign to attract hundreds of nurses and healthcare professionals to relocate and work in hospitals and the community across Northamptonshire.

NHS bosses are looking for nurses of all levels and specialisms as well as therapists and healthcare assistant roles. Northampton Chronicle and Echo

How children's services cuts are affecting one family

How children's services cuts are affecting one family As Northamptonshire County Council makes £70m worth of spending cuts, how does it feel for a needy family to have support withdrawn? BBC Northampton

‘Moving at the speed of trust’ – the journey to integrated care systems

‘Moving at the speed of trust’ – the journey to integrated care systems In May of this year, NHS England announced four new integrated care systems (ICSs) to join the ten existing systems. But ‘announced’ is not really the right word; as we have found in our work with the systems, creating an ICS is most definitely a journey and not an event.

We’ve been tracking these journeys over the past year, conducting interviews with more than 70 NHS and local government leaders and other stakeholders in eight of the first ICSs. Our new report, published today, sets out the findings from this work and identifies emerging lessons for local systems and national policy-makers. The King's Fund

See also:

• Working across boundaries: realising the vision of integrated care Nuffield Trust

Planning and preparing for later life

Planning and preparing for later life This review focuses on planning for later life (age 60 and over) from mid-life (age 40-60) onwards. It concludes that planning ahead could make it more likely that we achieve a good later life, including saving for retirement, taking actions to maintain and improve health and working out whether homes might need adaptations in the future. Centre for Ageing Better

What price safe motherhood? : charging for NHS maternity care in England and its impact on migrant women

What price safe motherhood? : charging for NHS maternity care in England and its impact on migrant women This study explores the experiences of women who faced charges for NHS maternity care. Most of the participants were socially and economically vulnerable but faced debts for bills which they were sent from the NHS. It shows how NHS charging gives rise to stress and anxiety among migrant women who are pregnant and new mothers. Some women were deterred from attending maternity care and so did not receive needed clinical care and social support with possible long-term consequences for their own and their children’s health. Maternity Action

Turning around the lives of dementia patients

Turning around the lives of dementia patients Confronting the stigma and isolation people with dementia face in some communities around the world. BBC News

Pre-sex HIV drug should be made available on NHS, MPs say

Pre-sex HIV drug should be made available on NHS, MPs say A drug that cuts the chances of contracting HIV during sex should be made available on the NHS in England to anyone at risk, three MPs have told the BBC's Victoria Derbyshire programme.

Tory MPs Crispin Blunt and Nigel Evans, and Labour's Stephen Doughty said the Prep drug had been proven to be cost-effective during continuing trials.

A much cheaper version of Prep could soon be available to the NHS.

NHS England said it would "look at evidence from the trial".

Prep (pre-exposure prophylaxis) is available on the NHS in Scotland and Wales. BBC News

NHS England 'ahead of target' on GP funding rise plans with £580m boost

NHS England 'ahead of target' on GP funding rise plans with £580m boost NHS England is 'ahead of target' to increase GP funding, it has claimed, amid an annual rise last year of £580m.

Official data released today showed that GP funding increased by 3.9% last year, rising to a total of £10.8bn in 2017/18.

NHS England said this marked the fifth annual consecutive real-terms increase to general practice funding and put it 'ahead of target' on its GP Forward View pledge for general practice to receive £12bn a year by 2020.

But the BMA said the figure was 'potentially misleading' because it included funding for drug reimbursements and other initiatives like GP services in A&E. Pulse

Lifeline public health services face £96m funding drop as councils are forced to make cuts, Labour warns

Lifeline public health services face £96m funding drop as councils are forced to make cuts, Labour warns Lifeline addiction support, sexual health clinics and stop-smoking services face cuts of £96m this year after “shortsighted and cynical” reductions to council budgets, Labour has claimed.

New analysis shows 85 per cent of English councils plan to slash spending on vital services to balance their books, as life expectancy rates stall, and drug-related deaths and childhood obesity levels hit record highs.

Sexual health services were among the worst hit, with services being stripped back by 95 councils at a loss of £17.6m of funding compared to the previous year, according to 2018-19 budget figures from the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government. The Independent

Ban on cigarette displays cuts children buying tobacco in shops by nearly a third, study finds

Ban on cigarette displays cuts children buying tobacco in shops by nearly a third, study finds The ban on displays of tobacco products in shops may have reduced the proportion of children buying cigarettes by 17 per cent, according to new research.

A study into buying habits suggests the introduction of the 2015 ban may have prompted an immediate fall in children’s tobacco consumption.

The research, by Imperial College London, assessed survey responses from 18,000 11- to 15-year-olds from across England between 2010 and 2016. The Independent

See also:

• Child awareness of and access to cigarettes: impacts of the point-of-sale display ban in England (open access) Tobacco Control

NHS proposes A&E appointments system in targets shakeup

NHS proposes A&E appointments system in targets shakeup Patients may have to pre-book for emergency care as health chiefs look to Danish model

Patients could have to start booking appointments in A&E units, and those with only minor ailments wait many hours before they are seen, under a proposed shakeup of NHS targets.

NHS England chiefs are examining whether to relax the longstanding obligation to see 95% of A&E patients within four hours. Continue reading... The Guardian

See also:

• Target to treat patients within 18 weeks of seeing their GP should be scrapped, health chiefs warn The Daily Mail
• NHS loses £350 million as patients fail to turn up to appointments The Daily Mail

NHS trusts told to stop using subsidiary firms to save money

NHS trusts told to stop using subsidiary firms to save money Unions say ‘subcos’ risk creating two-tier NHS workforce in which some staff are paid less than others doing same job

NHS hospital trusts have been told to stop setting up private companies and transferring staff into them, a move that has provoked strong criticism from health unions and Labour.

NHS Improvement, which regulates the health service’s finances, has ordered England’s 240 trusts to “pause” controversial plans to create any more of the subsidiary companies. Continue reading... The Guardian

Conservatives back higher taxes to fund the NHS

Conservatives back higher taxes to fund the NHS Most Conservative voters now back higher taxes to fund the NHS, the British Social Attiudes Survey has found.

The polling, carried out by the National Centre for Social Research, found that 53 per cent of Conservatives Party supporters think the Government should increase taxes and spending on public services.

It marks a departure from data showing that for more than 15 years most Conservatives have said taxes should either fall or stay the same. The Daily Telegraph

'Snowflake generation' is threatening the future of NHS by refusing to work nights or weekends

'Snowflake generation' is threatening the future of NHS by refusing to work nights or weekends The new generation of NHS workers is threatening the future of the health service by refusing to work nights or weekends, a health chief has warned.

Around the clock shifts are going unfilled due to millennial staff, often referred to as 'snowflakes', insisting on flexible hours, according to the trust chief executive who declined to be named.

The shift in the workforce is placing pressure on the health service and creating a generational clash with long-standing NHS staff, he said. The Daily Mail

NHS will become the first health service to use routine genetic testing

NHS will become the first health service to use routine genetic testing Professor Dame Sue Hill, NHS England's chief scientific officer, believes shifting treatments from being 'one size fits all' to a more personalised approach is the 'holy grail of the health system'. The Daily Mail