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.
Wednesday, 19 April 2023
Northampton: Autistic woman praises 'amazing' crisis house renovation
Delapré Wellbeing partnership programme shortlisted for national award
Delapré Wellbeing partnership programme shortlisted for national award The partnership programme designed to support people across Northampton make positive choices to take control over their health and wellbeing has been shortlisted for ‘Partnership of the Year’ in the Museums + Heritage Awards 2023.
Delapré Wellbeing partnership was created during the pandemic by local organisations across the town. Delapré Abbey Preservation Trust in partnership with Action for Happiness Northamptonshire, The General Practice Alliance Federation, Northampton Leisure Trust, Northamptonshire Sport, and the University of Northampton have worked together over the past year to put communities at the heart of public health. Northampton Chronicle and Echo
Striking images: What caused the NHS crisis and can it be fixed?
Striking images: What caused the NHS crisis and can it be fixed? From unsolved pay disputes to record backlogs, abandoned social care reforms and now accusations of sexual harassment of female surgeons, finding a good news story about health and care services in the UK is nigh on impossible.
So just how bad is the crisis facing the NHS? Who, or what, can be blamed for the pile-up of problems? And is there any way that Rishi Sunak – or maybe Keir Starmer – can fix the crisis? Podcast from Institute for Government
Delaying second doses of vaccine reduced COVID-19 hospitalisations and deaths
Delaying second doses of vaccine reduced COVID-19 hospitalisations and deaths Delaying people’s second COVID-19 vaccine dose likely prevented tens of thousands of hospitalisations and thousands of deaths in England.
These are the findings of a retrospective analysis from the Imperial College London COVID-19 Response Team which aimed to quantify the impact of delaying the delivery of second vaccine doses on the epidemic in England.
Their analysis estimates that this may have prevented an average of 58,000 hospital admissions and 10,000 deaths between 8th December 2020 and 13th September 2021. Imperial College London
See also:
- Quantifying the effect of delaying the second COVID-19 vaccine dose in England: a mathematical modelling study (open access) The Lancet Public Health
Troubled hospital trust given warning about staffing levels
- Good Hope Hospital Care Quality Commission
- Warning to Good Hope Hospital over unsafe staff shortages which saw one nurse caring for 26 patients Birmingham Live
- Patients left waiting on trolleys for four days due to 'unsafe' staffing levels, report finds The Independent
- Birmingham NHS Trust handed warning notice for staffing levels ITV News
NHS criticised for sending patients to children's hospital despite 1,600 ‘sexual safety incidents’
Sickness drags down UK economy as job vacancies go unfilled
Nanny statism fears behind UK’s 30-year failure to tackle obesity, report says
- Tackling obesity: Improving policy making on food and health Institute for Government
- Ministers afraid to tackle obesity over fears of promoting 'nanny-statism' The Daily Mail
- How UK governments from Major to Johnson tried to tackle obesity The Guardian
- The primary cause of Britain’s childhood obesity emergency is clear: poverty The Guardian
- Government ‘squeamishness’ over tackling obesity ‘will lead to higher taxes’ The Independent
Patients are having to wait nearly 100 MINUTES just for their 999 calls to be answered
Number of NHS patients placed onto mixed-sex wards reaches all-time high of nearly 5,000
Treating depression using CBT therapy could help cut the risk of heart attacks and strokes
- Psychological therapies for depression and cardiovascular risk: evidence from national healthcare records in England (open access) European Heart Journal