£2.9 billion funding to strengthen care for the vulnerable

£2.9 billion funding to strengthen care for the vulnerable The funding will help patients who no longer need urgent hospital treatment to return home, making at least 15,000 beds available during the coronavirus outbreak. Department of Health and Social Care

See also:

• Online isolation notes launched - providing proof of coronavirus absence from work Department of Health and Social Care
• Guidance: Coronavirus (COVID-19): hospital discharge service requirements Department of Health and Social Care
• Guidance: COVID-19: ethical framework for adult social care Department of Health and Social Care
• Former docs and nurses told “Your NHS Needs You” to tackle greatest global health threat in history NHS England
• Guidance: COVID-19: prisons and other prescribed places of detention guidance Public Health England
• Guidance: COVID-19: guidance for hostel or day centres for people rough sleeping Public Health England
• Guidance: Coronavirus (COVID-19): residential care, supported living and home care guidance Public Health England
• Coronavirus: Thousands of retired medics asked to return to NHS BBC News
• PM: We can 'turn the tide' on coronavirus crisis BBC News
• Coronavirus: How can the NHS, students and businesses be supported? BBC News
• Coronavirus: When will the outbreak end and life get back to normal? BBC News
• Britain could start to lift drastic social restriction measures by summer, expert claims The Daily Mail
• Coronavirus death toll tops 10,000 worldwide as crisis continues to escalate in Europe The Daily Mail
• Who qualifies as a key worker? Coronavirus school closures explained The Daily Telegraph
• Microsoft Teams to be rolled out across NHS in response to coronavirus Digital Health
• 15,000 doctors invited to return to NHS frontline to fight coronavirus GPonline
• 'We're clearing the decks': a GP on watching the coronavirus pandemic unfold The Guardian
• Children to attend school if one parent classed as key worker The Guardian
• I'm the head of a medical school. But doctors like me are going back to the frontline The Guardian
• Busting common myths about Covid-19 The Independent
• Coronavirus: Health Secretary urges Britons to ‘stay home to save lives’ The Independent
• Structured Medication Reviews postponed under new COVID-19 guidance OnMedica

NICE publishes its first medtech briefing on artificial intelligence software

NICE publishes its first medtech briefing on artificial intelligence software A piece of software used to assess CT images of people with suspected brain abnormalities is the first Medtech Innovation Briefing (MIB) published by NICE which includes the use of artificial intelligence (AI).

NHS data shows gap in care for heart failure patients

NHS data shows gap in care for heart failure patients A new study published in a BMJ journal has found that inadequate screening in heart failure has cost the NHS an avoidable £21.5 million.

The investigation, which is the first of its kind, has identified the hidden costs due to under-managed but treatable iron deficiency (ID) and iron deficiency anaemia (IDA) from one-year data of around 80,000 people with heart failure. PharmaTimes