Monday, 12 December 2022

'Debunking the vaccine myths to help keep Northamptonshire safe this winter'

'Debunking the vaccine myths to help keep Northamptonshire safe this winter' Kieran Breen is Head of Research and Innovation at St Andrew's Healthcare.

The number of cases of flu have climbed quickly in England with some children under the age of five ending up in hospital. In the last couple of years, UK influenza rates have ben fairy low due to the Covid lockdown, but the hospital admission rates for flu are slowly creeping up. As winter sets in, the risk of Covid 19 rates spiking is also a concern, which is why health officials are urging. Northampton Chronicle and Echo

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Nearly half of A&E patients waited longer than four hours to be seen at Northampton General Hospital in November

Nearly half of A&E patients waited longer than four hours to be seen at Northampton General Hospital in November Nearly half of patients attending major A&E at Northampton General Hospital waited longer than four hours to be dealt with last month, according to NHS England figures.

NHS targets state that 95 percent of patients attending accident and emergency should be admitted to hospital, transferred elsewhere or discharged within four hours. But NGH fell well short of that in November, when just 55 percent of the 9,172 type one A&E attendances were dealt with within four hours. Northampton Chronicle and Echo
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Regions in the NHS: what are they good for?

Regions in the NHS: what are they good for? Toby Lewis argues that we need to shift the debate about regions in health care from a vertical discussion within the NHS to a horizontal conversation about embedding the NHS in the wider world. If reducing health inequalities is to be the common purpose it ought to be, these new regions can play a crucial role. The King's Fund
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Overlooked, but not overcome: smaller hospitals and the staff response to the Covid-19 pandemic

Overlooked, but not overcome: smaller hospitals and the staff response to the Covid-19 pandemic How have smaller hospitals fared over the pandemic, and how did it feel from the perspective of those responding during the first years of the biggest health care emergency of our times? We interviewed staff in smaller hospitals around the country during 2021 to understand their key concerns from the perspective of institutions that are sometimes overlooked when system planning gets done. We also make a set of recommendations for future crisis planning and response. Nuffield Trust

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Staff shortages in the NHS and social care sectors

Staff shortages in the NHS and social care sectors Recent data has revealed that the number of vacancies in the NHS and social care sectors has increased since September 2020. Health bodies and organisations have warned that such shortages have affected, and will continue to affect, patients. In recent years, successive governments have introduced measures to tackle staff shortages, including commissioning the NHS to publish a long-term workforce strategy and publishing a white paper on reforming adult social care. House of Lords Library
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The assessment of venous thromboembolism risks associated with pregnancy and the postnatal period

The assessment of venous thromboembolism risks associated with pregnancy and the postnatal period This report finds that pregnant people could suffer a potentially fatal blood vessel blockage if their risk is not properly assessed during pregnancy and the first six weeks after birth. It aims to identify factors that limit the effectiveness of venous thromboembolism risk assessment policies and identify opportunities to improve patient safety. Healthcare Safety Investigation Branch
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    Unlocking the NHS’s social and economic potential: a maturity framework

    Unlocking the NHS’s social and economic potential: a maturity framework This toolkit aims to help systems gauge and track their progress on unlocking social and economic development. The guidance explores what social and economic development is, why it matters to the NHS and how integrated care systems might deliver this to benefit its services. NHS Confederation
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    Guidance: The R value and growth rate

    Guidance: The R value and growth rate The latest reproduction number (R) and growth rate of coronavirus (COVID-19). UK Health Security Agency

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    Government delivers on pledge for £50 million MND research funding

    Government delivers on pledge for £50 million MND research funding The government will cut red tape in order to speed up research into Motor Neurone Disease (MND) across the UK, with immediate investment so NHS patients can benefit from cutting edge treatment and medicines, the Health and Social Care Secretary, Steve Barclay, and Business Secretary, Grant Shapps, have announced. Department of Health and Social Care
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    Base editing: Revolutionary therapy clears girl's incurable cancer

    Base editing: Revolutionary therapy clears girl's incurable cancer A teenage girl's incurable cancer has been cleared from her body in the first use of a revolutionary new type of medicine.

    All other treatments for Alyssa's leukaemia had failed.

    So doctors at Great Ormond Street Hospital used "base editing" to perform a feat of biological engineering to build her a new living drug.

    Six months later the cancer is undetectable, but Alyssa is still being monitored in case it comes back. BBC News
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    Hospitals in England pay £5,200 for one agency doctor's shift

    Hospitals in England pay £5,200 for one agency doctor's shift Hospitals in England have paid out as much as £5,200 for a shift by a doctor through an agency, according to figures obtained by Labour through Freedom of Information requests.

    That is the latest in an intensifying debate over workforce shortages in the NHS in England. BBC News
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    Revealed: NHS planning to draft thousands of volunteers as it faces winter crisis

    Revealed: NHS planning to draft thousands of volunteers as it faces winter crisis Health officials are drawing up plans to draft in thousands of extra volunteers to help the NHS cope with ambulance delays and hospital pressures this winter, according to a leaked document that lays bare the scale of the crisis in Britain’s healthcare system.

    NHS performance is “highly likely to deteriorate further” under increased winter demand and industrial action, reveals the Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC) briefing seen by The Observer.

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    Ministers refuse to negotiate with nurses on pay to prevent NHS strikes

    Ministers refuse to negotiate with nurses on pay to prevent NHS strikes Ministers have rebuffed an offer by nursing unions to suspend planned strikes in return for negotiations on pay, arguing that it was not possible for the government to amend awards decided by the independent pay body for NHS staff.

    The foreign secretary, James Cleverly, told Sky’s Sophy Ridge on Sunday show that the health secretary would happily talk to the unions, but only about improving NHS performance and working conditions, and not about pay. The Guardian

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    Wes Streeting interview: Failures in the NHS mean I still don't know if I'm clear of cancer

    Wes Streeting interview: Failures in the NHS mean I still don't know if I'm clear of cancer Wes Streeting is waiting. The 39-year old was due to have a scan in August, to check whether he is clear of the kidney cancer for which he received treatment last year. But the shadow health secretary is among millions of people stuck in limbo, as NHS waiting lists swell to a record high. The Daily Telegraph

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    Junk food ads ban is delayed to give companies time to adjust to new rules

    Junk food ads ban is delayed to give companies time to adjust to new rules A ban on advertising junk food online and on TV before the 9pm watershed is to be delayed by over two years — just weeks before it was set to take effect. 

    New rules restricting the promotion of products high in fat, salt and sugar were due to come into force next month in a bid to combat the nation's bulging waistlines. 

    But the government has agreed to push the curbs back to October 2025 to give firms more time to reformulate their products and adjust their marketing strategies. The Daily Mail

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    New blood cancer therapy treats seven in 10 patients

    New blood cancer therapy treats seven in 10 patients An experimental therapy could offer blood cancer patients a 'new lease on life', scientists say.

    The immunotherapy treatment — called talquetamab — successfully treated 73 percent of patients with multiple myeloma in a global trial.

    It helped people who had relapsed in their disease more than once after other treatments failed to bring them into remission for an extended period of time.  The Daily Mail

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