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This blog covers the latest UK health care news, publications, policy announcements, events and information focused on the NHS, as well as the latest media stories and local news coverage of the NHS Trusts in Northamptonshire.
Tuesday, 18 April 2023
New chair will 'reset group model' across three trusts
MPs call for Government target to eliminate maternal health disparities
AI in health care: hope or hype?
AI in health care: hope or hype? News of artificial intelligence (AI) is everywhere. We seem to be on the cusp of a revolution in how the latest AI models will change our lives – and health and care could be at the centre of those changes.
AI will transform medicine, AI will allow doctorless screening and personalised prevention, AI will boost productivity, AI will make thousands of jobs redundant – so go all the claims.
But is this hype or real hope? How will AI transform health and care services and the experiences of staff and patients? What’s been the progress so far? And how best to move forward safely? And with growing demand, staff shortages and a public spending squeeze, could AI be a key answer to sustaining the NHS itself? (Podcast) The Health Foundation
Is it time for a different approach to thinking about the GP partnership model?
GP referrals: part 1 – the referrals black hole
- GP referrals: part 2 – the hidden waiting list HealthWatch
How primary care physicians experience telehealth: an international comparison
Hundreds of thousands set to receive spring Covid jabs this week
More people could have hidden bowel condition
Microscopic colitis is an inflammation of the large bowel and causes frequent watery diarrhoea, stomach pain, faecal incontinence, fatigue and weight loss.
About 17,000 people are diagnosed each year in the UK, but experts say the real number is likely to be higher.
Some standard tests for inflammatory bowel conditions do not spot it.
But despite misdiagnoses, cases have risen in the UK in recent years. BBC News
How artificial intelligence is matching drugs to patients
The primary cause of Britain’s childhood obesity emergency is clear: poverty
Nurses in England are on weaker ground with new strikes – and ministers know it
Everyone loves nurses, don’t they? They are near the top of the list of the nation’s most admired and trusted workers. They inspired a TV drama called Angels. And when they were striking in December, January and February, they were the NHS staff group that the health secretary, Steve Barclay, most wanted to make peace with.
But since the Royal College of Nursing decided to launch a new series of strikes in England after its members rejected a pay deal their leadership had recommended, the government is playing hardball with the union. The Guardian
- Rishi Sunak says he WON'T offer NHS workers a better pay deal after nurses' union rejects offer The Daily Mail
- 'Minority' of nurses who voted to strike will put patients at risk, Rishi Sunak says The Daily Telegraph
- NHS strikes make waiting list promise ‘more challenging’ – Sunak Evening Standard
- No Improved Pay Offer For Nurses, Says No.10 Huffington Post
- Nurses strikes: Union splits over NHS pay offer won’t stop us striking, say RCN sources iNews
- RCN won't coordinate strikes with junior doctors' walkouts - but warns of more action ahead ITV News
200,000 operations and appointments were postponed because of 4-day junior doctors' walk-out
Who is being hit hardest by the NHS' waiting list of SEVEN MILLION people
Moderna's cancer vaccine may be a 'major breakthrough', scientists say
- Adding a Personalized mRNA Cancer Vaccine to Immunotherapy May Prolong Recurrence-free Survival in Patients With High-risk Melanoma American Association for Cancer Research