Fifteen serious incidents at KGH in three months

Fifteen serious incidents at KGH in three months Kettering General Hospital has had 15 serious patient safety incidents during the Covid-19 pandemic months.

A report about quality and safeguarding across the county’s health providers, which will be presented to the Northamptonshire Clinical Commissioning Group on Tuesday (July 21), shows that the acute hospital in Rothwell Road has had by far the most serious incidents between April and June this year. Northamptonshire Telegraph

Guidance: Developing and evaluating workplace health interventions: employer toolkit

Guidance: Developing and evaluating workplace health interventions: employer toolkit This toolkit provides guidance for employers to develop their offer of workplace health interventions. Public Health England

Update on Randox test kits

Update on Randox test kits NHS Test and Trace has been notified that some test kits produced by Randox laboratories may not meet our required safety standards for coronavirus testing. Department of Health and Social Care

Covid-19 and social protection in Europe and Central Asia

Covid-19 and social protection in Europe and Central Asia This report, written with the International Labour Organization and the United Nations Children’s Fund, aims to help strengthen social protection. It makes the case that the crisis offers a moment of opportunity to expand and strengthen social protection mechanisms to safeguard health, well-being and livelihoods, leaving no-one behind in country response and recovery plans. World Health Organization

NHS 'Exemplars' to help improve learning disability care

NHS 'Exemplars' to help improve learning disability care In an effort to drive forward improvements in the care provided to people with a learning disability, the NHS is calling on local NHS organisations across the country to become learning disability ‘Exemplars’ and act as trailblazers in improving health outcomes for those with learning disabilities.

The call has been issued as the fourth annual learning disability review and action report are published. National Health Executive

See also:

• New NHS ‘Exemplars’ to help close inequality gap for people with a learning disability NHS England
• People with a learning disability four times more likely to die from treatable conditions, report reveals The Independent

Coronavirus: £3bn for NHS to prepare for possible second wave

Coronavirus: £3bn for NHS to prepare for possible second wave The NHS in England will get an extra £3bn of funding to prepare for a possible second wave of coronavirus, Boris Johnson has announced.

The funding will also help ease winter pressures on the health service, Downing Street said.

It follows warnings a second wave this winter could see as many as 120,000 Covid-19 deaths in UK hospitals. BBC News

See also:

• Hancock calls for urgent review into death data in England BBC News
• Coronavirus: 'Deep concerns' over brain injury rehabilitation BBC News
• Coronavirus: 'People shielding too scared to leave home' BBC News
• Covid-19 was still the third most common cause of death in June The Daily Mail
• UK government orders halt to Randox Covid-19 tests over safety issues The Guardian
• Coronavirus outcome in the UK has not been good, admits chief scientific adviser The Independent
• Coronavirus: New test can determine past and present infections in 20 minutes, researchers say The Independent

I'm one of the thousands of extra cancer deaths we'll see this year

I'm one of the thousands of extra cancer deaths we'll see this year The first thing I saw as I woke up from surgery was the tanned face of my surgeon leaning over me. “It’s bad news, I’m afraid.”

Surgery was my last hope. I’d been diagnosed with suspected vaginal cancer at Christmas the previous year. As the lump was still small, my oncologist was optimistic. With radiotherapy and chemo she thought we’d beat it. And, indeed, by last summer I’d been given the all clear. But the tumour returned, and by the time I had surgery it was too late: it had spread and was inoperable. The Guardian