How can managers and leaders support staff wellbeing in the NHS?

How can managers and leaders support staff wellbeing in the NHS? Much has been (and will continue to be) written on the NHS workforce crisis; which is really a knot of overlapping crises, some long-standing, others more recent, that grows more intractable with the passing of time. It’s important to say that much of this knot is a consequence of political choices, there’s nothing inevitable about it. But until different choices are made the challenges in the health and care workforce will continue to fall to the workforce to manage and solve. The King's Fund

Health and wellbeing communications guide

Health and wellbeing communications guide This guide provides practical tools that will help NHS health and wellbeing and staff experience leads deliver successful campaigns and initiatives. NHS Employers

More support needed for international nurses and midwives

More support needed for international nurses and midwives This analysis reveals that the profile of international professionals registered in 2021–2022 is very different from UK joiners and the register they joined. They’re more likely to be men and they’re much more likely to be ethnically diverse. The NMC is calling on health and care employers to fully support internationally trained professionals into UK practice – and join with UK trained nurses and midwives to create the most inclusive environment possible. Nursing and Midwifery Council

Eating within set times good for shift workers

Eating within set times good for shift workers Eating meals within set hours of the day may be a good way for shift workers to feel better and stay healthier, researchers say.

Their working patterns are known to play havoc with the body's rhythms, raising the risk of disease.

In a study, firefighters working 24-hour shifts reduced their "bad" cholesterol and blood pressure, by eating within a 10-hour window.

And those with existing health conditions benefited the most. BBC News

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• Feasibility of time-restricted eating and impacts on cardiometabolic health in 24-h shift workers: The Healthy Heroes randomized control trial (open access) Cell Metabolism

Tony Hickmott: Autistic man to be released after 21 years in hospital

Tony Hickmott: Autistic man to be released after 21 years in hospital An autistic man who has been held in a secure hospital for 21 years has been told he can finally go home.

Tony Hickmott, 45, was sectioned after he had a mental health crisis in 2001, and despite a long fight by his family, he has not been released since.

Last year, a judge criticised his detention, telling authorities to find a home near his parents, in Brighton.

A care team for Mr Hickmott is now being assembled and he is expected in a new home in his home town, next month. BBC News

UK economic policies ‘likely to cause many more deaths than Covid’

UK economic policies ‘likely to cause many more deaths than Covid’ The UK government’s economic policies are “likely” to have caused a “great many more deaths” than the Covid pandemic, an academic has claimed.

Researchers said their “not only shocking but shameful” statistics showed that almost 335,000 more deaths than expected were recorded across Scotland, England and Wales over an eight-year period. The Independent

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• Bearing the burden of austerity: how do changing mortality rates in the UK compare between men and women? (open access) Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health

Thérèse Coffey is leaving the UK vulnerable to monkeypox

Thérèse Coffey is leaving the UK vulnerable to monkeypox | Ceri Smith Reports that new health secretary, Thérèse Coffey, has rejected her officials’ expert advice to procure an additional 70,000 doses of monkeypox vaccine are deeply concerning and shortsighted.

Less than a month into the role, Coffey is said to have gone against the recommendation of those who have been leading the country’s response, and made a critical decision that leaves the UK vulnerable to future outbreaks of monkeypox. The Guardian

Rates of little-known super-STI 'that causes infertility' have spiralled 60-FOLD within last decade

Rates of little-known super-STI 'that causes infertility' have spiralled 60-FOLD within last decade Rates of a super-STI which can cause infertility in women have soared 60-fold over the last decade, official figures revealed today.

More than 5,000 cases of mycoplasma genitalium — which is becoming resistant to drugs — were logged in England in 2021. 

By comparison, just 79 cases of MG were recorded when experts first proved it was a sexually transmitted infection seven years ago. The Daily Mail

See also: 

• Official Statistics: Sexually transmitted infections (STIs): annual data tables UK Health Security Agency

Underperforming NHS hospitals 'are being dragged in for Cobra-style meetings'

Underperforming NHS hospitals 'are being dragged in for Cobra-style meetings' More than a dozen underperforming hospitals are being dragged in for emergency meetings with ministers in a bid to tackle the handover delay crisis, it was reported today.

Bosses from 15 NHS sites, including in Birmingham, Leicester and the South West, have been summoned for talks to set out ways they can discharge patients faster to make space in hospitals. The Daily Mail

Hospital parking fees scandal continues as analysis shows one site charges £76 A DAY

Hospital parking fees scandal continues as analysis shows one site charges £76 A DAY Hospitals are piling pressure on ambulance services by charging patients up to £76.80 a day to park, campaigners warned yesterday.

They said sky-high parking fees mean many sick Britons can no longer afford to drive to A&E and rely on 999 vehicles instead.

Researchers analysed parking charges at 120 of England's top hospitals. The Daily Mail