Awareness evening for prostate and testicular cancer to be held at Northampton Waitrose n awareness evening for prostate and testicular cancer is to be held at a Northampton Waitrose store in mid-November.
The free event will take place from 6.30pm until 8pm on November 17 at the café in Kingsthorpe Waitrose, in Harborough Road.
It is being supported by Oddballs Testicular Cancer Charity, who is bringing a speaker, and the Northampton Prostate Support Group. Northampton Chronicle and Echo
Myth #3: “We should copy other countries and adopt a social insurance model” One solution often proposed for the NHS’s problems is to change how it is funded, and move instead to a social insurance model. In the latest in his series of mythbusting commentaries, Nigel Edwards describes why such a move in the UK would be unlikely to provide most of the benefits that its advocates hope for. Nuffield Trust
Guidance on good governance and collaboration New guidance on good governance and collaboration that sets out expectations on how trusts should collaborate and links effective collaboration to a governance licence condition under the provider licence. NHS England
Ministers urged to launch inquiry into inpatient mental health services after ‘systemic abuse’ allegations Ministers have been urged to launch a public inquiry into the care of mental health patients after The Independent revealed allegations that patients had suffered “systemic abuse” in inpatient units.
A joint investigation with Sky News found that teenagers at facilities run by The Huntercombe Group had been left with post-traumatic stress disorder by their treatment despite hundreds of warnings to regulators and the NHS.
Now the government is facing calls to review all mental health care services over fears that these cases are “the tip of the iceberg”. The Independent
