Call for more urgent sepsis care More must be done to help save the lives of patients suffering from the condition sepsis, according to a report from the Health Service Ombudsman. BBC News
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Friday, 13 September 2013
NHS whistle-blower guidance issued
NHS whistle-blower guidance issued NHS staff who want to raise concerns over patient care are to be helped with new guidelines from the Nursing and Midwifery Council. BBC News
Looking to the future
Looking to the future The Royal College of Physicians has received a Future Hospital report calling for a radical shake-up of acute general medicine, underpinned by IT. Lyn Whitfield reports on the proposals and reaction to them. E-Health Insider
Information: to share or not to share? Government response to Caldicott Review
Information: to share or not to share? Government response to Caldicott Review This policy paper forms the response to Dame Fiona Caldicott’s independent review of how information about individuals is shared across the health and care system. The government accepts all the recommendations of the Caldicott report and highlights that while information sharing is essential to provide good care for everyone, there are rules that must be followed.
Telehealth: let's hear from those who have used it
Telehealth: let's hear from those who have used it While we wait for the successor to the 3millionlives group, we should listen to those patients with experience of telehealth.
Thursday, 12 September 2013
PHE launches new information portal
PHE launches new information portal The tools serve a range of public health information needs, including the commissioning and planning of services, joint strategic needs assessment, health surveillance, understanding inequalities and variation, research and evidence. Department of Health
Bring care to patients, NHS told
Bring care to patients, NHS told The era of patients being shunted around NHS hospitals needs to end, an expert group says. BBC News
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- Future Hospital caring for medical patients The Royal College of Physicians
- Medical experts propose hospital doctors treat patients at home The Guardian
- Let patients stay put, NHS is told The Daily Telegraph
Healthcare science registration and regulation explained
Healthcare science registration and regulation explained NHS Employers has published a new website section, which summarises the current regulatory landscape for the healthcare science workforce.
We’re finally hearing how vital it is to listen to patients, says Dr Katherine Rake OBE
We’re finally hearing how vital it is to listen to patients, says Dr Katherine Rake OBE The importance of listening to patients has now emerged as a key recommendation from a series of reports. In fact, you would struggle to find an issue on which there is more heartfelt agreement. The Keogh Review found that its focus groups with patients and staff were “the single most powerful aspect of the review … Continue reading NHS Voices
Managing the risks of legacy ICT to public service delivery
Managing the risks of legacy ICT to public service delivery This report argues that older ICT systems that are critical for the delivery of key public services (‘legacy ICT’) expose departments to risks which must be understood and managed. It estimates that in 2011-12, at least £480 billion of the government’s operating revenues and at least £210 billion of non-staff expenditure such as pensions and entitlements were reliant to some extent on legacy ICT. Case studies within various government departments are used to outline the impact of legacy IT and the NHS prescription services is used as an example.
Ambulance crews poised to take industrial action over cuts to sick pay
Ambulance crews poised to take industrial action over cuts to sick pay Unions say cuts of up to 25% have been imposed without agreement. OnMedica
UK-wide alert over NHS worker with Hepatitis C
UK-wide alert over NHS worker with Hepatitis C At least 3,000 former patients contacted after discovery that NHS worker unknowingly had virus for decades.
NHS mortality rate higher than in US
NHS mortality rate higher than in US Patients in English NHS hospitals are 45 per cent more likely to die than those treated in US wards. The Independent
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Wednesday, 11 September 2013
10 competing bids through to the second phase of £1 billion health contract ... - Cambridge News
10 competing bids through to the second phase of £1 billion health contract ... - Cambridge News The final contenders are Albion Care Alliance CIC, North Essex Partnership University NHS Foundation Trust, Northamptonshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust, and Cambridgeshire and Peterborough NHS Foundation Trust with Cambridge University ...
NGH to get about £4m to improve Northamptonshire urgent care
NGH to get about £4m to improve Northamptonshire urgent care About £4 million is to be handed to Northampton General Hospital from the Government, some of which will pay for more A&E staff. Northampton Chronicle and Echo
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- KGH to receive £4m to help with A&E pressures Northamptonshire Telegraph
Guidance: UK 5 Year Antimicrobial Resistance Strategy 2013 to 2018
Guidance: UK 5 Year Antimicrobial Resistance Strategy 2013 to 2018 Increasing resistance and a lack of new drugs means a greater risk of infections that cannot be treated. This will make routine medical care riskier and result in more deaths so antimicrobial resistance (AMR) affects us all.
The overall goal of this new cross-government UK strategy is to slow the development and spread of antimicrobial resistance by focusing activities around 3 strategic aims.
- improve the knowledge and understanding of antimicrobial resistance
- conserve and steward the effectiveness of existing treatments
- stimulate the development of new antibiotics, diagnostics and novel therapies
The strategy confirms the UK’s leading role in stimulating national and international action on this global issue and it is important that all sectors respond to the call for action if we are to successfully address this issue. Department of Health
A&E cash linked to staff flu jabs
A&E cash linked to staff flu jabs Hospitals in England will have to get most of their staff vaccinated against flu if they want access to the A&E bailout fund in the future. BBC News
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- Health secretary highlights staff flu vaccination in announcement on A&E pressures NHS Employers
- Press release: Hunt - NHS must fundamentally change to solve A&E problems Department of Health
- Toddlers to get flu vaccine in Jeremy Hunt’s plan to help A&E The Independent
- Jeremy Hunt orders same-day GP appointments to ease A&E burden The Guardian
A lot to shout about?
A lot to shout about? Government seems to think best line of defence on NHS is attack BBC News
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- Jeremy Hunt told to stop claiming NHS is failing The Guardian
30th British Social Attitudes report
30th British Social Attitudes report This report charts three decades of public views on British society, politics and morality. It also details how the public's view of the NHS has changed over the last 30 years and examines how satisfaction with the NHS has changed and how this correlates with particular policies or spending.
Facing blindness alone: what the government needs to do now to stop the isolation of blind people
Facing blindness alone: what the government needs to do now to stop the isolation of blind people This report argues that within the next ten years, local support for blind and visually impaired people will be drastically reduced. The research shows that although care and support has declined for all adults with a physical disability (30%), people with sight loss have been the worse affected (43%).
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- Blind people in Northamptonshire “being hit unfairly by cuts” charity claims Northampton Chronicle and Echo
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