Every voice counted: National training survey 2021 survey report summary results

Every voice counted: National training survey 2021 survey report summary results Each year we ask doctors in training for their views on the training they receive. We also ask their trainers about the support they get in their role. Together, these results help us improve training programmes and posts across the UK. 

We’re pleased to see positive responses to questions on teaching, supervision, and overall training  experience. These remain at pre-pandemic levels, across all specialties, regions, and countries of the UK. However, it’s clear the pandemic and ongoing recovery are taking a toll on the wellbeing of the healthcare workforce, including trainees and trainers. General Medical Council

See also: 

• Pandemic driving surge in burnout among trainee doctors and educators, GMC poll shows GPonline
• One-third of UK trainee doctors feel high level of burnout amid Covid The Guardian

Ethnic differences in life expectancy and mortality from selected causes in England and Wales: 2011 to 2014

Ethnic differences in life expectancy and mortality from selected causes in England and Wales: 2011 to 2014 This is the first use of linked 2011 Census and death registration data to produce experimental national estimates of life expectancy and mortality by cause of death by ethnic group in a pre-coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic period; covering 95% of people enumerated in the census and using self-reported ethnic groups, it represents the most comprehensive data available. Office for National Statistics

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• 'These results should not make for complacency' The King's Fund

What is behind the latest fall in cases of Covid across the UK?

What is behind the latest fall in cases of Covid across the UK? Confirmed infections have dropped 21.5% week on week – though recorded deaths are still on the rise.

Is this how it ends? After an 18-month rollercoaster of soaring and falling cases, and more than 100,000 UK deaths, is the epidemic fizzling out? Has immunity finally got the upper hand, or will the sudden drop in Covid cases prove no more than a brief downturn? There are many moving parts behind the numbers and huge uncertainty over what happens next. The Guardian

See also:

• Brazil: Why are so many pregnant women dying from Covid? BBC News
• ASH SUBRAMANIAN: As a surgeon, stress of the pandemic drove me to the brink The Daily Mail
• SAGE modeller hails UK's falling infections as 'good news' but warns it could be fewer tests The Daily Mail
• Pfizer and Moderna expand their COVID-19 vaccine clinical trials in children aged 5-11 The Daily Mail
• Covid: more EU states to restrict venue access for unvaccinated people The Guardian
• Shielders eight times more likely to get Covid-19, study suggests The Independent
• Covid: Dangerous new variants will emerge unless rich countries share vaccines, UK adviser warns The Independent
• NHS vaccine helpline to be set up for people denied Covid passport due to errors iNews

NHS 'as stretched now as it was in January', health leaders say

NHS 'as stretched now as it was in January', health leaders say The NHS is as stretched now as it was at the pandemic's peak in January and things could get worse, health leaders have said.

NHS providers have warned of "the scale of challenges over the next nine months" in a letter to the prime minister, the chancellor, the health secretary, the chief secretary to the Treasury and the chief executive of NHS England. Sky News

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• Government must act as NHS pressures match height of the pandemic NHS Providers

Contaminated blood inquiry: Former health minister Clarke to give evidence

Contaminated blood inquiry: Former health minister Clarke to give evidence Lord Clarke will give evidence under oath to the contaminated blood scandal inquiry later - the first senior health minister from the time to testify.

Around 3,000 people died after being given blood products containing HIV and hepatitis C in the 1970s and 1980s.

As late as November 1983 the government said it was not conclusively proven that HIV could be transmitted through blood products. BBC News 

New NHS data plan delayed to gain patient trust

New NHS data plan delayed to gain patient trust The NHS has been criticized for not engaging with the public about their controversial new scheme to digitalise and share our personal data.

The deadline for people to opt out had been pushed back to September the 1st but that has now been scrapped. NHS officials have told ITV News they now want to focus on reaching out to patients and reassuring them their data is safe.