Karen Parsons is a clinical nurse specialist in paediatric palliative care who is employed by Rainbows but works for the University Hospitals of Northamptonshire NHS group and Northamptonshire Healthcare Foundation Trust. Northamptonshire Telegraph
Monday 31 July 2023
New role will see Rainbows Hospice for Children and Young People providing support to families across Northamptonshire
New role will see Rainbows Hospice for Children and Young People providing support to families across Northamptonshire Rainbows Hospice for Children and Young People has a new role which will benefit people in Northamptonshire.
Public open to virtual care, but lack of understanding a barrier to progress, new research warns
Public open to virtual care, but lack of understanding a barrier to progress, new research warns ‘Virtual wards’ – which allow patients to get hospital-level care at home, while still being in regular contact with health professionals – are a key element of NHS England’s plan for tackling the backlog of care. They can be used instead of admitting people to hospital or to enable patients to be discharged sooner, and in some cases are supported by technologies that help people monitor their health at home.
But new analysis suggests that while the UK public is on balance supportive of virtual wards, a lack of understanding of the term may be holding back public support for them. The Health Foundation
The NHS Long Term Workforce Plan explained
The NHS Long Term Workforce Plan explained On 30 June 2023, the NHS long term workforce plan (Long Term Workforce Plan) was published, setting out the long-term strategic direction for the NHS workforce in England.
In this explainer, we set out the main commitments in the plan and provide our view of what they might mean, highlighting the opportunities and challenges for the health care system as the plan is put into practice. The King's Fund
Rapid Literature Review: Improvement cultures in health and adult social care settings
Rapid Literature Review: Improvement cultures in health and adult social care settings This report presents findings from a rapid evidence review into improvement cultures in health and adult social care settings. The review aims to inform CQC’s approach to assessing and encouraging improvement, improvement cultures and improvement capabilities of services, while maintaining and strengthening CQC’s regulatory role. It also identifies gaps in the current evidence base (i.e. the body of literature focused on improvement cultures). Care Quality Commission
The hidden wait for cancer care
The hidden wait for cancer care Our research on GP referrals highlighted the frustration patients experience due to long waits and a lack of support. This latest analysis looks at people’s experience of getting a cancer referral. Healthwatch England
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Hepatitis C prevalence falls by 45% in England
Hepatitis C prevalence falls by 45% in England The latest data published by UK Health Security Agency (UKHSA) shows that there were an estimated 70,649 people living in England with hepatitis C in 2022. This is 45% lower than the number of people in 2015, thanks to improved access to antivirals that cure the infection.
NHS England has treated more than 80,000 people since 2015 as part of its national elimination programme, meaning more people have now been treated and cured of the virus than are left to treat. Of those treated, more than 80% are from the most deprived areas in England, highlighting the role of eliminating hepatitis C as a key driver of reducing health inequalities.
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- Research: Hepatitis C in England and the UK UK Health Security Agency
- Research: Hepatitis D in England and the UK UK Health Security Agency
£600 million social care winter workforce and capacity boost
£600 million social care winter workforce and capacity boost The government has unveiled a £600 million package to help with recruitment and retention in social care. The fund will support the social care workforce and boost capacity in social care, in turn supporting the NHS ahead of winter and through into next year. Department of Health and Social Care
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- The King's Fund responds to DHSC social care boost The King's Fund
- ‘Crucial to delivering care’: LGA responds to £600m social care workforce funding Local Government Association
- Confirmed funding for social care workforce will offer some much-needed stability Nuffield Trust
- Correspondence: Adult social care winter letter 2023 to 2024 Department of Health and Social Care
- Guidance: Market Sustainability and Improvement Fund - Workforce Fund Department of Health and Social Care
- Research: Market Sustainability and Improvement Fund 2023 to 2024: care provider fees Department of Health and Social Care
- Social care funding 'will relieve hard-pressed councils and struggling staff' The Independent
New NHS campaign to help spot early signs of life-threatening constipation in people with a learning disability
New NHS campaign to help spot early signs of life-threatening constipation in people with a learning disability The NHS has launched a major new national campaign to support people with a learning disability, healthcare professionals and carers to spot the early signs of potentially life-threatening constipation.
The campaign, which has been co-created with people with lived experience, launches with a new animation and posters for use in different care settings to support conversations about constipation and ensure people with a learning disability can receive treatment at the earliest opportunity. NHS England
A chilling warning from Britain’s most senior A&E doctor: Tory winter plan could kill thousands
A chilling warning from Britain’s most senior A&E doctor: Tory winter plan could kill thousands Government plans to prepare the NHS for winter have been criticised by the UK’s most senior A&E doctor, who warned that inadequate provision could see thousands of people die needlessly this year.
Dr Adrian Boyle, president of the Royal College of Emergency Medicine (RCEM), warned that plans drawn up this week are wholly insufficient, allowing for less than half of the beds needed to cope with the crisis. The Independent
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Hunt says bill for infected blood compensation may be very large
Hunt says bill for infected blood compensation may be very large Final compensation for victims of the infected blood scandal could end up costing "very, very large sums of money," the chancellor has said.
Former health secretary Jeremy Hunt was giving evidence to the public inquiry into what has been labelled the worst treatment disaster in NHS history.
He said the government had accepted the moral case for compensation.
But he said no final decisions could be made before the inquiry publishes its findings later this year. BBC News
Exploitation of care workers in England is ‘appalling’, says government adviser
Exploitation of care workers in England is ‘appalling’, says government adviser Ministers have allowed England’s creaking social care system to become too heavily reliant on low-paid foreign workers who are vulnerable to exploitation, the government’s migration adviser has warned.
In a strongly worded intervention, Prof Brian Bell, who has just been reappointed by the home secretary, Suella Braverman, as chair of the migration advisory committee (MAC), called the government’s tacit acceptance of exploitation in the sector “appalling”. The Guardian
‘Serious failings’ contributed to baby’s death in 12-hour lone prison birth
‘Serious failings’ contributed to baby’s death in 12-hour lone prison birth Serious systemic failings contributed to the death of a newborn baby in a cell at Europe’s largest women’s prison, a coroner has concluded.
Rianna Cleary, who was 18 at the time, gave birth to her daughter Aisha alone in her prison cell at HMP Bronzefield, in Surrey, on the night of 26 September 2019. The care-leaver was on remand awaiting sentence after pleading guilty to a robbery charge. The Guardian
Spiralling sick leave is blamed on mental illness and long Covid as 36% of working-age people have a long-term health condition
Spiralling sick leave is blamed on mental illness and long Covid as 36% of working-age people have a long-term health condition Surging rates of depression and anxiety – along with the rise of long Covid – are driving up the number of Britons on long-term sick leave.
Figures published by the Office for National Statistics (ONS) revealed there were more than 2.5 million people not working due to ill health in the first three months of 2023 – a rise of 400,000 since the start of the pandemic.
It comes against a background of increasing chronic illness, with 36 per cent of all working-age people reporting to be living with at least one long-term health condition – up from 31 per cent in the first quarter of 2019. The Daily Mail
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- Rising ill-health and economic inactivity due to long-term sickness, UK: 2019 to 2023 Office for National Statistics
Ex-head of Government's vaccine taskforce Kate Bingham warns UK is unprepared for Covid 2.0
Ex-head of Government's vaccine taskforce Kate Bingham warns UK is unprepared for Covid 2.0 The former head of the government's vaccine taskforce has accused ministers of making 'dumbarse' decisions after the pandemic which could hit the country's ability to deal with a future virus outbreak.
Dame Kate Bingham said huge efforts were made to build manufacturing capability for vaccines, while a pioneering database was created of people willing to undergo clinical trials. The Daily Mail
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