What patients can expect as East Midlands Ambulance Service staff strike across Northamptonshire As paramedics and staff from East Midlands Ambulance Service (EMAS) staff across Northamptonshire strike over a dispute with the Government about pay, here is what patients can expect during the industrial action. Northamptonshire Telegraph
Wednesday 11 January 2023
An improvement framework to reduce community musculoskeletal waits while delivering best outcomes and experience
An improvement framework to reduce community musculoskeletal waits while delivering best outcomes and experience Integrated high quality community musculoskeletal (MSK) services are integral to a productive high-performing healthcare system supporting the management of MSK conditions. This framework will support integrated care systems (ICSs) to reduce commissioned community MSK waiting times while delivering best outcomes and experience for patients. It includes defining principles, recommended actions across primary, community and secondary care and further resources. NHS England
Growing occupational health and wellbeing together: our roadmap for the future
Growing occupational health and wellbeing together: our roadmap for the future This guidance sets out NHS England's five-year strategy to improve the health and wellbeing services for the NHS workforce. This strategy now forms a mandate for action for integrated care systems and NHS organisations as part of whole system workforce planning, having been included as part of 2023-24 NHS priorities and operational planning guidance. NHS England
Independent report: Technical report on the COVID-19 pandemic in the UK
Independent report: Technical report on the COVID-19 pandemic in the UK A technical report for future UK Chief Medical Officers, Government Chief Scientific Advisers, National Medical Directors and public health leaders in a pandemic. Department of Health and Social Care
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- Covid death rates were not a ‘lie’ Full Fact
- The covert winter wave of Covid-19 BBC Future
- What is known about new Covid variant XBB.1.5? BBC News
- Covid booster: Who can get another jab this winter? BBC News
- Covid: Leftover swabs to be tested for other viruses in the UK BBC News
- China Covid: More than 88 million people in Henan infected, official says BBC News
- COVID cases: Infections leap to six-month high after Christmas as one in 20 test positive in England Sky News
NHS bosses fear impact of second ambulance strike
NHS bosses fear impact of second ambulance strike The impact of Wednesday's ambulance strike in England and Wales is likely to be worse than that of the one before Christmas, NHS managers are warning.
Thousands of paramedics and support staff will walk out for the second time this winter, in the dispute over pay.
NHS Providers said this strike would be harder to cope with, as the government raised fears over the lack of a national deal on emergency cover.
But union leaders said life-and-limb cover would be provided. BBC News
See also:
- NHS tells patients to seek emergency care as needed during latest industrial action NHS England
- Ambulance staff in England and Wales strike over pay BBC News
- I worry we're killing people - ambulance dispatcher BBC News
- Strikes Bill: Ambulance workers singled out by government ahead of walkout Channel 4 News
- Only call an ambulance for a ‘life or limb’ emergency, public are warned as 999 crew begin latest strike that ‘will bring even MORE disruption than the previous walkout’ The Daily Mail
- Ambulance strike today: Dates of walkouts and what to do if you need emergency help The Daily Telegraph
- Trade unions to discuss coordinated ‘day of action’ across public sector The Guardian
- NHS urges use of GP, chemist or 111 service during ambulance strike The Guardian
- Anti-strike bill: Shapps to get power to decide minimum service levels The Guardian
- Steve Barclay tells public to behave with ‘common sense’ during NHS ambulance strike The Independent
- Around 25,000 ambulance workers go on strike in England and Wales ITV News
- Ambulance workers go on strike today - with NHS offering advice on how patients will be affected Sky News
- Anti-strike bill: Ambulance unions 'put people's lives at risk' by refusing minimum levels of service, Business Secretary Grant Shapps says Sky News
The NHS has always had problems compared to the rest of the developed world - and its allowed them to get worse
The NHS has always had problems compared to the rest of the developed world - and its allowed them to get worse Analysis shows the UK's level of underinvestment in healthcare is a significant outlier compared with the rest of the developed world. But as with much about the healthcare system, the story isn't quite as simple as that. Sky News
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- The NHS crisis - decades in the making BBC News
- A&E patients waiting more than 12 hours hits record high BBC News
- NHS: Woman, 90, forced to wait three days in A&E chair BBC News
- Sick man of Europe: why the crisis-ridden NHS is falling apart The Guardian
- Revealed: Record 50,000 patients a week face 12-hour A&E waits The Independent
- NHS crisis: Two health workers open up about the daily 'firefight', patients lying on floors and 24-hour waits for admission Sky News
Record number of cancer patients in England waiting over three months for treatment
Record number of cancer patients in England waiting over three months for treatment A record number of people in England are waiting longer than ever for cancer treatment, as the total waiting more than three months surpassed 12,000 for the first time.
More than 4% of the 287,000 people on cancer waiting lists had waited more than 104 days to receive treatment after diagnosis, despite 2,000 of those being considered urgent patients, according to NHS England figures for the week ending on 1 January, seen by Health Service Journal. The Guardian
Warning over errors with oxygen cylinders amid pressures on NHS
Warning over errors with oxygen cylinders amid pressures on NHS NHS England alerts health trusts over 120 patient safety incidents and increased use of portable oxygen as flu and Covid cases rise
Pressures on the health service in England could have contributed to a number of patient safety incidents involving oxygen cylinders, according to an alert from the NHS.
It was issued after 120 incidents were linked to problems with the devices. The errors, which were recorded over the past 12 months, included staff giving patients empty cylinders or failing to switch over cylinders. The Guardian
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Blood markers could help identify rare, inherited form of Alzheimer’s disease
Blood markers could help identify rare, inherited form of Alzheimer’s disease A new breakthrough could help medical professionals spot a rare, inherited form of Alzheimer’s disease ten years before symptoms appear in sufferers.
Scientists attribute this potentially ground-breaking claim to the discovery of blood markers in people who are in the very early stages of the neurodegenerative disease. The Independent
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- Plasma biomarker profiles in autosomal dominant Alzheimer’s disease (open access) Brain
Children's prescriptions for antipsychotic medicines have doubled in the last 20 years, study finds
Children's prescriptions for antipsychotic medicines have doubled in the last 20 years, study finds Children's prescriptions for antipsychotic medicines have doubled in the last 20 years, a study found.
The drugs, which have a tranquillising effect, are typically used in adults to treat major mental illnesses, such as schizophrenia. The Daily Mail
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- Trends in antipsychotic prescribing to children and adolescents in England: cohort study using 2000–19 primary care data (open access) The Lancet Psychiatry
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