Pleas to get jabbed grow more urgent after first Covid deaths since April at Northampton General Hospital

Pleas to get jabbed grow more urgent after first Covid deaths since April at Northampton General Hospital Health chiefs have launched a fresh plea to more than 60,000 Northampton adults who are yet to take up the offer for their first Covid-19 vaccination. Northampton Chronicle and Echo

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• Pop-up Covid vaccine clinic in Corby town centre this weekend Northamptonshire Telegraph
• Health chiefs' plan with a van to deliver swabs on wheels as Covid-19 testing goes mobile in Northamptonshire Northamptonshire Telegraph

Plea to "avoid A&E if you can" as pressures grow on Northamptonshire's hospitals

Plea to "avoid A&E if you can" as pressures grow on Northamptonshire's hospitals Hospital chiefs have warned people could be turned away from the county's Accident & Emergency departments if their condition is not life-threatening as pressure grows on NHS staff. Northampton Chronicle and Echo

NHS staff to receive 3% pay rise

NHS staff to receive 3% pay rise NHS staff including nurses, paramedics, consultants, and dentists in England will receive a 3% pay rise backdated to April 2021 after the government accepted the recommendations of the independent NHS Pay Review Body (NHSPRB) and the Review Body for Doctors’ and Dentists’ Renumeration (DDRB). Department of Health and Social Care

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• Independent report: Senior Salaries Review Body Report: 2021 Department of Health and Social Care
• NHS pay offer is 'treading water' The Health Foundation
• Agenda for Change 2021/22 Pay Scales Nursing Notes
• NHS pay deal 'a bitter blow' to nursing staff in England and Wales Royal College of Nursing
• NHS workers in England offered 3% pay rise BBC News
• Nurses may consider industrial action over 3% NHS pay rise, union says BBC News
• NHS Pay: Government accepts recommendation and gives 3pc rise The Daily Telegraph
• The government’s ‘3% pay rise’ is a cut in real terms for nurses | Rachel Ambrose The Guardian
• For an NHS burnt out from Covid, praise without a raise means little The Guardian
• Threat of nurses’ strike over 3% pay award for NHS staff The Guardian
• NHS staff in England get pay rise of 3% after their contribution during 'unprecedented year' Sky News

How will we know integration of health and care services is working?

How will we know integration of health and care services is working? Listening to people and learning from their experiences offers the opportunity to change care for the better. Imelda Redmond, National Director of Healthwatch England, explains why involving users will give a better, bigger picture of how integration is working. The King's Fund 

A wait on your mind? A realistic proposal for tackling the elective backlog

A wait on your mind? A realistic proposal for tackling the elective backlog The waiting list for elective treatment in the NHS in England has reached an unprecedented level. It is likely to become the defining NHS issue as we approach the next general election, and brings a very real human cost as millions endure a long and uncertain wait. So what can be done? Policy Exchange 

National Clinical Audit of Psychosis – national report for the Early Intervention in Psychosis Audit 2020/2021

National Clinical Audit of Psychosis – national report for the Early Intervention in Psychosis Audit 2020/2021 The National Clinical Audit of Psychosis aims to improve the quality of care that NHS mental health trusts provide to people with psychosis. This report provides national and organisation-level findings on the treatment of people by Early Intervention in Psychosis (EIP) teams in England, as well as the impact of Covid-19 on the services provided. Royal College of Psychiatrists 

The treatment of autistic people and people with learning disabilities

The treatment of autistic people and people with learning disabilities This report on the treatment and care of autistic people and those with learning disabilities has found that a lack of adequate community provision has led to many experiencing unnecessary admissions to and intolerable treatment in inpatient facilities. MPs describe the situation as a scandal, given it is happening ten years since the notorious case of Winterbourne View. House of Commons Health and Social Care Committee 

NHS England proposes new mental health access standards

NHS England proposes new mental health access standards The NHS is set to take another major step towards improving patient access to mental health services with the introduction of five new waiting time guarantees, under plans set out today.

The proposals could ensure that patients requiring urgent care will be seen by community mental health crisis teams within 24 hours of referral, with the most urgent getting help within four hours. Mental health liaison services for those who end up in A&E departments would also be rolled out to remaining sites across the country. NHS England

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• Emergency mental health patients to get help within hour under NHS England plan The Guardian

Coronavirus: Worst affected care homes revealed by watchdog

Coronavirus: Worst affected care homes revealed by watchdog A breakdown of the numbers of people who died with Covid-19 for each care home in England has been published for the first time.

Overall, more than 39,000 care home residents died with the virus between 10 April 2020 and 31 March 2021. BBC News

See also: 

• CQC publishes data showing death notifications involving COVID-19 received from individual care homes Care Quality Commission
• How England is starting to IGNORE Test and Trace amid 'pingdemic' chaos The Daily Mail
• More than 1.8million Britons say they are suffering from 'long Covid', survey finds The Daily Mail
• Freedom Day could be watered down in weeks: SAGE tells Boris to prepare to roll back mask-wearing The Daily Mail
• England may have to reimpose Covid rules in August, scientists warn The Guardian

Eating disorders: Number of under-20s in hospital up 50%

Eating disorders: Number of under-20s in hospital up 50% The number of young people with eating disorders in England ending up in hospital has risen during the pandemic, a BBC investigation has found.

Data from NHS Digital showed the number of under-20s admitted over the past year topped 3,200 - nearly 50% higher than in 2019-20.

Hospitals are warning they are running out of beds to care for these patients. BBC News

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• 'She just wouldn't eat' BBC News

Watchdog warns 'exceptional' NHS pressure is affecting patient care

Watchdog warns 'exceptional' NHS pressure is affecting patient care The care watchdog has warned that “exceptional” pressures on the NHS is affecting the care of patients across England with healthcare workers pushed to the brink.

 

Professor Ted Baker, the Care Quality Commission’s chief inspector of hospitals has spoken out as ambulance services report record levels of 999 calls with patients waiting hours in the backs of ambulances outside hospitals. The Independent

Matt Hancock warned against power-grab as backlash builds against NHS shake-up plans

Matt Hancock warned against power-grab as backlash builds against NHS shake-up plans Matt Hancock is facing growing warnings against accumulating too much personal power in a planned shake-up of hospitals which is running into opposition from within the health service and from some Tory MPs. iNews