The mental health number, which was launched back in April 2020, is a 24/ hour telephone helpline designed as the only number you need to call for mental health support in the county. Northampton Chronicle and Echo
Thursday 6 January 2022
Northamptonshire's mental health phoneline received more than 3100 calls for help in 11 days over festive period
Northamptonshire's mental health phoneline received more than 3100 calls for help in 11 days over festive period Northamptonshire' s mental health help line received more than 3,100 calls in just 11 days during the festive season, averaging more than calls per day.
One in eight in Northamptonshire had a New Year's resolution to quit smoking
One in eight in Northamptonshire had a New Year's resolution to quit smoking Figures show up to one in eight people in Northamptonshire went into 2022 considering quitting smoking.
Public Health England data shows 13.1 percent of the area's adults — around 75,000 people — smoked in 2020, above the national average of 12.1 percent. Northamptonshire Telegraph
2021: the health policy year in 12 charts
2021: the health policy year in 12 charts 2021 may have been another ‘year of Covid’ but there was still plenty of other health policy news, notes and data to recap in our annual round-up of the year. So before we turn the page to 2022, let’s take our annual chart-based look at the year that was. The King's Fund
Omicron and emergency care crisis could derail plans to tackle backlog, warn MPs
Omicron and emergency care crisis could derail plans to tackle backlog, warn MPs The Health and Social Care Committee’s Report on clearing the backlog caused by the pandemic finds that the elective recovery plans are threatened by pressure on emergency care with a record number of 999 calls and waiting times in emergency departments at record levels.
The Report concludes that tackling the wider backlog caused by the pandemic is a major and ‘unquantifiable’ challenge. It calls for a broad national health and care recovery plan to include mental health, primary care, community care, and social care as well as emergency care.
See also:
- Clearing the backlog caused by the pandemic (report) Health and Social Care Committee
- BMA says the Government must listen in order to end the staffing crisis BMA
- Government must be realistic about the time and resources needed to clear the NHS backlog The Health Foundation
- Response to HSCSC inquiry on the backlog of care caused by the pandemic NHS Confederation
- RCN comments on Health and Social Care Committee report ‘Clearing the backlog caused by the pandemic' Royal College of Nursing
- RCP responds to the Health and Social Care Committee's report on clearing the backlog Royal College of Physicians
- RCGP responds to Health and Social Care Committee Report on NHS backlog Royal College of General Practitioners
- Fix NHS staffing crisis to tackle waiting lists backlog, warn MPs BBC News
- Government told to 'wake up' over NHS staff crisis as MPs highlight pressure on GPs GPonline
- MPs call for urgent action to tackle NHS treatment waiting list The Guardian
Urgent steps needed now to avoid staffing crisis in the NHS
Urgent steps needed now to avoid staffing crisis in the NHS The NHS is facing a staffing crisis which threatens the quality of patient care unless urgent steps are taken now by the Government to help alleviate the mounting pressure on front-line services.
The NHS Confederation, which represents the whole healthcare system in England, Wales and Northern Ireland, is calling for a range of measures to be taken in the NHS in England to support hospitals, ambulance services, mental health and community providers, primary care and social care providers.
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Covid: Boris Johnson confirms Plan B rules to continue for three weeks
Covid: Boris Johnson confirms Plan B rules to continue for three weeks England's current Plan B rules will continue for now, Boris Johnson has confirmed - as new figures show a record one in 15 people had Covid on New Year's Eve.
In an update to MPs, the prime minister said the Covid measures will be reviewed again by 26 January. BBC News
See also:
- Shapps: No PCR needed for asymptomatic Covid cases BBC News
- Covid: PCR not needed after positive lateral flow under new plans BBC News
- Covid: French uproar as Macron vows to 'piss off' unvaccinated BBC News
- Record 3.3 MILLION people - one in 15 - had Covid on New Year's Eve in England The Daily Mail
- NHS workers left empty handed in scramble for lateral flows The Daily Mail
- Hundreds of UK care homes are closing their doors to new patients The Daily Mail
- PCR vs LFT: Lateral flows can cut Covid isolation but could leave one in 10 with false positive The Daily Telegraph
- At least 24 NHS trusts declare critical incidents due to Covid pressures The Guardian
- ‘Covid is affecting all of acute care – so the system sludges up’ The Guardian
- People urged to report results of home Covid tests after follow-up PCRs suspended The Guardian
- Will the UK’s Covid booster campaign pick up speed in January? The Guardian
- Covid: UK reports 194747 new cases as pressure mounts on NHS and hospitals cancel surgeries The Independent
- Nurses in 'disbelief' as PM fails to act despite NHS being 'more broken than ever' Nursing Notes
- Will Omicron tip the NHS into a winter crisis? Sky News
NHS hospital uses robot technology
NHS hospital uses robot technology The NHS is facing unprecedented challenges with long waiting lists for treatment and staff shortages.
But could robots be part of the solution?
A hospital in Bristol is already using robots to improve efficiency in some behind the scenes roles and is now experimenting with how robots might interact with patients. BBC News
Nurse ‘victimised’ for wearing cross at work was unfairly dismissed, tribunal rules
Nurse ‘victimised’ for wearing cross at work was unfairly dismissed, tribunal rules A nurse who claimed she was victimised for wearing a necklace with a Christian cross at work has won a case for unfair dismissal.
Mary Onuoha, a theatre practitioner at Croydon university hospital, Surrey, was discriminated against and harassed, an employment tribunal ruled on Wednesday. The Guardian
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