Wednesday, 22 October 2014
Secretary of State's guidance under section 42A of the National Health Service Act 2006
Secretary of State's guidance under section 42A of the National Health Service Act 2006 This document provides guidance on how the Department of Health can provide loans, public dividend capital or guarantees of payment to foundation trusts and NHS trusts. It covers the type of finance that may be provided; how to request financial assistance; criteria for deciding whether and how to provide financial assistance; and the terms and conditions that may be applicable to finance that may be provided. Department of Health
Report reveals the real cost of adult hearing loss to society
Report reveals the real cost of adult hearing loss to society In its report The Real Cost of Adult Hearing Loss, the Ear Foundation counts the direct costs of treating hearing loss, which are comparatively low, and the much larger costs of dealing with health and social impacts.
The report advocates better use of “life-changing” technology, adult hearing screening and joined-up services across health and social care.
The report advocates better use of “life-changing” technology, adult hearing screening and joined-up services across health and social care.
Hospital based strategies for creating a culture of health
Hospital based strategies for creating a culture of health This report provides background on the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation’s vision to build a culture of health and discusses how hospitals are contributing to community health improvement. It reports the findings of a review of 300 community health needs assessments, provides strategic considerations for hospital engagement in community health improvement and offers a model of the hospital’s role in building a culture of health. Hospitals in Pursuit of Excellence
GPs to get £55 for dementia diagnoses
GPs to get £55 for dementia diagnoses Doctors in England will be paid £55 every time they diagnose dementia, health chiefs say, but the scheme is criticised by a patients' group. BBC News
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- Anger over 'cash for diagnoses' dementia plan The Daily Telegraph
- NHS dementia plan to give GPs cash for diagnoses criticised as ethical travesty The Guardian
NICE conflicts of interests claim
NICE conflicts of interests claim A group of leading doctors and researchers has called on MPs to investigate potential conflicts of interest at the medicines watchdog, NICE. BBC News
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- MPs probe claims of NHS drugs conflicts of interests The Daily Telegraph
Paralysed man walks again after pioneering surgery
Paralysed man walks again after pioneering surgery "World first as man whose spinal cord was severed WALKS," the Mail Online reports. In pioneering research, transplanted cells have been used to stimulate the repair of a man's spinal cord.
The headlines are based on a scientific report describing a 38-year-old man whose spinal cord was almost completely severed in a knife attack. The man had completely lost feeling and movement below the injury and was paralysed from the chest down.
Researchers injected the man's damaged spinal cord with cells taken from parts of the brain involved in interpreting smell signals from the nose to the brain. This treatment was combined with a graft from one of the nerves in his lower leg to reconnect the stumps of spinal cord severed by the injury.
After surgery, the man had improved trunk stability, partial recovery of the voluntary movements of the lower extremities, and an increase of muscle in one thigh, as well as improvements in sensation. According to an accompanying press release, the man is now able to walk using a frame.
While previous techniques have managed to "re-route" nerve signals around a damaged section of the spinal cord, this is the first time that damage to the cord has been directly repaired.
These results are very encouraging, but, as the researchers note, the findings will need to be confirmed in other patients with similar types of spinal cord injury.
The headlines are based on a scientific report describing a 38-year-old man whose spinal cord was almost completely severed in a knife attack. The man had completely lost feeling and movement below the injury and was paralysed from the chest down.
Researchers injected the man's damaged spinal cord with cells taken from parts of the brain involved in interpreting smell signals from the nose to the brain. This treatment was combined with a graft from one of the nerves in his lower leg to reconnect the stumps of spinal cord severed by the injury.
After surgery, the man had improved trunk stability, partial recovery of the voluntary movements of the lower extremities, and an increase of muscle in one thigh, as well as improvements in sensation. According to an accompanying press release, the man is now able to walk using a frame.
While previous techniques have managed to "re-route" nerve signals around a damaged section of the spinal cord, this is the first time that damage to the cord has been directly repaired.
These results are very encouraging, but, as the researchers note, the findings will need to be confirmed in other patients with similar types of spinal cord injury.
Hospital IT is in a hopeless, fragmented mess
Hospital IT is in a hopeless, fragmented mess Hospitals have problems getting their wards to communicate with each other, never mind with local GPs or patients
Back in the 1960s when I was a mere stripling in the data processing industry and the world of computers was new and all, two great truths were drummed into me:
An IT system will fail if the people who use it are not involved in the design. Top managers must drive the implementation, and accept responsibility for its success or failure. Continue reading... The Guardian
Back in the 1960s when I was a mere stripling in the data processing industry and the world of computers was new and all, two great truths were drummed into me:
An IT system will fail if the people who use it are not involved in the design. Top managers must drive the implementation, and accept responsibility for its success or failure. Continue reading... The Guardian
How to save the NHS in just 50 pages
How to save the NHS in just 50 pages The Five Year Forward Review is the NHS's own answer to whether it can survive as a unique system of healthcare.
Simon Stevenss arrival as NHS Englands new boss on 1 April was greeted with great warmth and relief across the service. In some quarters he was regarded almost as a messiah the man who had come back into the fold, after 10 years in US private healthcare, to rescue the NHS from its crisis of unsustainability. He saved us once before, in 2000, with the NHS Plans extra billions and extra staff, so hes the one to do something similar again, they thought.
Stevens deliberately did not administer any immediate quick fixes or announce headline-grabbing initiatives. He told the health select committee in April he would set out his thoughts about how to meet the challenges facing the service ageing, integration with social care, modernisation of primary care, lifestyle-related illnesses, and much more within six months. Continue reading... The Guardian
Simon Stevenss arrival as NHS Englands new boss on 1 April was greeted with great warmth and relief across the service. In some quarters he was regarded almost as a messiah the man who had come back into the fold, after 10 years in US private healthcare, to rescue the NHS from its crisis of unsustainability. He saved us once before, in 2000, with the NHS Plans extra billions and extra staff, so hes the one to do something similar again, they thought.
Stevens deliberately did not administer any immediate quick fixes or announce headline-grabbing initiatives. He told the health select committee in April he would set out his thoughts about how to meet the challenges facing the service ageing, integration with social care, modernisation of primary care, lifestyle-related illnesses, and much more within six months. Continue reading... The Guardian
Tuesday, 21 October 2014
VIDEO: Work begins on building multi-million pound mental health facility in Northampton
VIDEO: Work begins on building multi-million pound mental health facility in Northampton Work to build the largest mental health facility in Europe for young people in Northampton has begun. St Andrew's, yesterday began building its new residential building for young people. Northampton Chronicle and Echo
Corby health group shortlisted for top award
Corby health group shortlisted for top award Corby Clinical Commissioning Group (CCG), which plans and pays for health services in the area, has been nominated for a top award. Northamptonshire Telegraph
Northampton radiographers strike against fourth year with no pay rise
Northampton radiographers strike against fourth year with no pay rise Radiographers from two departments at Northampton General Hospital took part in a four-hour strike today after being refused a pay rise for the fourth year running. Northampton Chronicle and Echo
Guidance: Cold weather plan for England 2014
Guidance: Cold weather plan for England 2014 The cold weather plan gives advice to the NHS and social care on preparing for the effects of winter weather on people’s health. Public Health England
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- Press release: PHE cold weather plan helps you protect your health Public Health England
- Keep Warm Keep Well Public Health England
Latest NHS staff sickness absence figures released
Latest NHS staff sickness absence figures released NHS staff sickness absence has risen by 0.15 per cent in the year to June 2014.
The latest figures released by the Health and Social Care Information Centre (HSCIC) show an increase in overall sickness absence, rising to 3.95 per cent in June 2014 from 3.80 percent in June 2013. NHS Employers
The latest figures released by the Health and Social Care Information Centre (HSCIC) show an increase in overall sickness absence, rising to 3.95 per cent in June 2014 from 3.80 percent in June 2013. NHS Employers
Community pharmacy management of minor illness
Community pharmacy management of minor illness This report shows that common ailments such as coughs and sore throats cost the NHS an extra £1.1 billion a year when patients are treated at A&E or GP surgeries rather than at community pharmacies. Treatment results were equally good regardless of whether patients were treated at a pharmacy, A&E or GP practice. Overall, the study estimates that 3% of all A&E consultations and 5.5% of GP consultations for common ailments could be managed in community pharmacies. This equates to over 650,000 visits to A&E and over 18 million GP consultations every year that could be diverted with a total annual cost saving of over £1billion. Royal Pharmaceutical Society
The costs of perinatal mental health problems
The costs of perinatal mental health problems This report argues that perinatal mental health problems carry a total economic and social long-term cost to society of about £8.1 billion for each one-year cohort of births in the UK. It also finds that the NHS would need to spend just £337 million a year to bring perinatal mental health care up to the level recommended in national guidance. Centre for Mental Health
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Man walks again after transplant
Man walks again after transplant A paralysed man has been able to walk again after a pioneering therapy that involved transplanting specialist cells into his damaged spinal cord. BBC News
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- To walk again - the people behind the story BBC News
- British doctors on brink of cure for paralysis The Independent
More UK medics travel to Ebola area
More UK medics travel to Ebola area About 100 army medics are travelling to Sierra Leone as part of UK efforts to tackle the Ebola outbreak, as screening begins at Gatwick. BBC News
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- VIDEO: UK Ebola vaccine tests continue BBC News
- Ebola crisis: How Nigeria's Dr Adadevoh fought the virus BBC News
- Ebola: GlaxoSmithKline says working at 'unprecedented rate' to find vaccine The Daily Telegraph
- Downing Streets Ebola panic is a classic case of the politics of fear The Guardian
- Ebola outbreak: WHO missed 'the disaster of our times,' say aid agencies The Independent
NHS needs bigger budget rises to ward off perfect storm, says watchdog
NHS needs bigger budget rises to ward off perfect storm, says watchdog Regulator calls for annual multimillion-pound funding increases to tackle problems caused by ageing and population growth
The NHS must once again start receiving annual multimillion-pound increases in its budget to help it survive a perfect storm of pressures, the boss of the services economic regulator has warned.
The health service will struggle to cope with the ageing and growing population unless it goes back to getting above-inflation annual boosts to its funding, said Dr David Bennett. Continue reading... The Guardian
The NHS must once again start receiving annual multimillion-pound increases in its budget to help it survive a perfect storm of pressures, the boss of the services economic regulator has warned.
The health service will struggle to cope with the ageing and growing population unless it goes back to getting above-inflation annual boosts to its funding, said Dr David Bennett. Continue reading... The Guardian
Exclusive: NHS hires foreign doctors to stave off winter crisis
Exclusive: NHS hires foreign doctors to stave off winter crisis Dozens of extra foreign doctors have been drafted in to help NHS hospitals head off a winter crisis, Jeremy Hunt, the Health Secretary, will announce today. The Independent
NHS hospital staff banned from drinking tea or coffee on the job because it looks like they're not working hard enough
NHS hospital staff banned from drinking tea or coffee on the job because it looks like they're not working hard enough Medics and other staff have been banned from drinking tea or coffee in public areas at three Leicester hospitals. The Independent
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