NHS accused of racism as black nurses report being put in Covid areas The NHS has been accused of “shocking and systemic” racism during the pandemic as black healthcare workers say they were given poor PPE and pushed into the Covid frontline first.
Hundreds of black and brown healthcare staff across the UK have spoken to academics at Sheffield Hallam University about their experiences of racism during the pandemic. The Independent
Integrating additional roles into primary care networks We found that PCNs are in their early stages of development and in many cases lack a clear, shared overall purpose and strategy or a clear, shared vision and buy-in for the ARRS roles. Many PCNs do not share a team identity, and this makes deploying network-wide staff in a supported way very complex when there are different strategies, different cultures and different identities to be managed. The King's Fund
At Your Service: A proposal to reform general practice and enable digital healthcare at scale Policy Exchange has set out a pragmatic proposal for reform in a new report. Addressing issues around integration, workforce, digital transformation and scaled provision, we argue that a new model of general practice is required to better meet the needs of patients and the taxpayer – so it feels increasingly at their service.
Boosterism blinds us to the possible benefits of Brexit A recent report set out a range of benefits from Brexit across many areas of regulation, policy and spending, but on closer inspection do the sections relevant to health remind us that most of these advantages are hopes or goals rather than current reality? Nuffield Trust
Government U-turn on 'no jab, no job' rule for care workers as Covid deaths rise in Northamptonshire homes Ministers will press on with easing Covid rules for care homes despite more deaths linked to the virus in the county.
Latest Office for National Statistics data showed ten deaths in county care settings — nine in West Northamptonshire and one in the North — between February 6 and February 25. Northamptonshire Telegraph
Health system recovery from Covid-19: International lessons for the NHS The challenges confronting the NHS in recovering from the pandemic are huge, with elective services that were scaled down during the worst of the crisis now with waiting lists of over 6 million patients. Yet worldwide, the pandemic has left even the most well-equipped health systems vulnerable. What approaches have other countries used to move towards recovery, and what might the NHS learn? This major new Nuffield Trust report looks across 16 different countries to gain an understanding of the recovery challenge worldwide.
Healthy life expectancy target: the scale of the challenge Previously published Health Foundation analysis estimated that it would take 75 years to reach five years of improvement in healthy life expectancy based on the trend for men between 2009–11 and 2015–17. The position has since deteriorated, meaning it would now take 192 years for men based on the trend between 2009–11 and 2017–19, the latest data which excludes the effects of the pandemic.
