Friday, 9 November 2012
NGH borrows £7m to solve cashflow crisis
NGH borrows £7m to solve cashflow crisis: Northampton General Hospital is receiving £7 million in NHS funding to try to solve its cashflow crisis. Northampton Chronicle and Echo
NGH staff admit missed signs in mother’s death
NGH staff admit missed signs in mother’s death: A senior doctor at Northampton General Hospital admitted he did not know all the warning signs of a condition that killed a woman hours after the birth of her twins. Northampton Chronicle and Echo
The Liverpool Care Pathway debate
The Liverpool Care Pathway debate: The controversy over the Liverpool Care Pathway, following misleading headlines in the media, has this week collided with the Government’s publication of its response to the Future Forum’s recommendations about the NHS Constitution. What can we make of this? Stephen Thornton discusses the issue. The Health Foundation
Mistakes by staff have seen NHS complaints rise by 50 per cent
Mistakes by staff have seen NHS complaints rise by 50 per cent:
Complaints to the NHS about the failure of doctors, nurses or managers to admit mistakes or apologise when things go wrong have leapt by 50 per cent in a year. The Independent
See also:
Complaints to the NHS about the failure of doctors, nurses or managers to admit mistakes or apologise when things go wrong have leapt by 50 per cent in a year. The Independent
See also:
- NHS failings aggravate distress over blunders The Guardian
- Complaints about the NHS rise by 8 per cent in a year The Daily Mail
- NHS complaints on the increase BBC News
- Listening and learning: the Ombudsman review of complaint handling by the NHS in England 2011-12 Parliamentary and Health Service Ombudsman
People with learning disabilities speak out on plans for social care
People with learning disabilities speak out on plans for social care: It reveals that while service users and their relatives feel that some of the proposed reforms would make a really positive difference, almost all are concerned about current levels of funding for care, what is going to happen to their benefits and how their support will be affected as a result. More NHS Networks
''Irresponsible'' MPs block NHS reforms
''Irresponsible'' MPs block NHS reforms: MPs who back local protests against hospital closures may put patients' lives at risk, says King's Fund Public Service
Liaison psychiatry in the modern NHS
Liaison psychiatry in the modern NHS: This report argues that every NHS hospital should have a liaison
psychiatry service as standard as it could save the average hospital £5 million a year by reducing the number and length of admissions to beds. It adds that even bigger savings could be achieved in future if liaison psychiatry services were extended to work in the community to prevent crises from happening at all.
psychiatry service as standard as it could save the average hospital £5 million a year by reducing the number and length of admissions to beds. It adds that even bigger savings could be achieved in future if liaison psychiatry services were extended to work in the community to prevent crises from happening at all.
Ethical procurement training
Ethical procurement training: This free online training programme is designed to support the Ethical Procurement for Health workbook. Together, they provide practical advice for healthcare buyers, helping them to identify poor labour standards and take action through the procurement process and engagement with suppliers.
Doctors dismayed as public health committee is scrapped
Doctors dismayed as public health committee is scrapped: Subcommittee set up to tackle obesity, alcohol abuse and other public health problems is axed after only two years
A Whitehall ministerial committee set up by the coalition as it pledged to tackle major problems such as obesity, alcohol abuse and growing health inequalities has been scrapped, prompting a furious response from senior doctors.
A Whitehall ministerial committee set up by the coalition as it pledged to tackle major problems such as obesity, alcohol abuse and growing health inequalities has been scrapped, prompting a furious response from senior doctors.
Doctors 'not telling patients the pitfalls of surgery'
Doctors 'not telling patients the pitfalls of surgery': Patients are routinely undergoing unnecessary and potentially harmful surgery because doctors are failing to tell them they have a choice, academics warn today.
The Daily Telegraph
The Daily Telegraph
Thursday, 8 November 2012
The franchising of Hinchingbrooke Health Care NHS Trust
The franchising of Hinchingbrooke Health Care NHS Trust: The first private company awarded a franchise to run an NHS hospital has made improvements in some clinical areas, but big financial challenges remain. The National Audit Office
See also
See also
- Hospital lifesaver Circle loses extra £2.2m The Independent
- Circle '£2m behind in plan to save Hinchingbrooke Hospital' The Daily Telegraph
- Private healthcare firm 'could make £31m' from running hospital The Guardian
- Warning to NHS over private deals BBC News
Survey finds UK experience of dentistry is highly rated
Survey finds UK experience of dentistry is highly rated: The report follows the survey of 1,000 consumers to explore their experience of dentistry in the UK and found eight out of ten patients who had seen a dentist in the past two years were highly satisfied with their treatment. NHS Networks
Dementia challenge progress report published
Dementia challenge progress report published: A progress report published today gives an update on the first 7 months of the Prime Minister’s Dementia Challenge. The report, ‘Delivering major improvements in dementia care and research by 2015: A report of progress’, outlines the aims, achievements and ambitions of the challenge’s 3 champion groups.
NHS 'institutional racism' claims
NHS 'institutional racism' claims: Why are there so few black executives in the health service? BBC News
Recovery, public mental health and wellbeing
Recovery, public mental health and wellbeing: The Centre for Mental Health has published 'Recovery, public mental health and wellbeing'. This paper explores how recovery and recovery-oriented practice have the potential to transform mental health services, but suggests it is important to examine the whole range of resources and opportunities that can support quality of life for people with mental health problems. It sets out the ways that providers, those using or working in mental health services, voluntary groups, commissioners, those in public health or with a role on Health and Wellbeing Boards, can support recovery through the development of public health and community based approaches.
Equally accessible? making mental health services more accessible for learning disabled or autistic people
Equally accessible? making mental health services more accessible for learning disabled or autistic people: People with learning disabilities or autism deserve equal access to mental health services and good treatment, but they currently receive variable treatment across England. NHS Confederation
Improving GP services in England: exploring the association between quality of care and the experience of patients
Improving GP services in England: exploring the association between quality of care and the experience of patients: Using data from more than 8,000 general practices in England, this paper examines the association between patients’ perceptions about the non-clinical aspects of care and practice performance on measures of
clinical quality. It identifies clinical effectiveness and patient experience as key domains of health care quality; that there is a correlation between positive patient experiences and higher QOF outcome scores; and that patients' experience of using their GP services can affect their use and interaction with those services.
clinical quality. It identifies clinical effectiveness and patient experience as key domains of health care quality; that there is a correlation between positive patient experiences and higher QOF outcome scores; and that patients' experience of using their GP services can affect their use and interaction with those services.
Changes to trends in disease-related deaths
Changes to trends in disease-related deaths: ‘Cancer overtakes heart disease as number one killer’, is the news in The Daily Telegraph.
The Telegraph, and other papers, report that a third of people now die from some form of cancer, according to 2011 statistics.
Taking a more glass half-full approach, The Guardian reports that heart deaths have been halved by healthier lifestyles, while conceding that cancers have become the biggest group of killers and that Alzheimer’s disease-related deaths are on the increase.
Taking a more glass half-full approach, The Guardian reports that heart deaths have been halved by healthier lifestyles, while conceding that cancers have become the biggest group of killers and that Alzheimer’s disease-related deaths are on the increase.
GP commissioner survey finds support for increased competition
GP commissioner survey finds support for increased competition: Almost nine in 10 likely to ban or limit some treatments and 50% likely to make greater use of alternative providers
Leaders of the GP commissioning groups that were created under the government's NHS reforms would limit treatments to patients and favour increasing competition from private companies, and a substantial minority advocate closing accident and emergency departments, a poll reveals.
The survey by the Health Service Journal of 116 board members of the new commissioning groups in the English NHS found that four-fifths were concerned that "political opposition to service change" would be a barrier to them making significant improvements to services in the next year.
Almost nine in 10 said they were likely to ban or limit some treatments they did not think were "clinically justified" in the next year. More than a quarter said they were likely to carry out a major service reconfiguration, including downgrading or closing an A&E unit, in the next year.
In a sign that the GP groups are more pro-market than previous NHS structures, 50% of respondents said they were likely to make greater use of alternative providers and increased competition. The Guardian
Leaders of the GP commissioning groups that were created under the government's NHS reforms would limit treatments to patients and favour increasing competition from private companies, and a substantial minority advocate closing accident and emergency departments, a poll reveals.
The survey by the Health Service Journal of 116 board members of the new commissioning groups in the English NHS found that four-fifths were concerned that "political opposition to service change" would be a barrier to them making significant improvements to services in the next year.
Almost nine in 10 said they were likely to ban or limit some treatments they did not think were "clinically justified" in the next year. More than a quarter said they were likely to carry out a major service reconfiguration, including downgrading or closing an A&E unit, in the next year.
In a sign that the GP groups are more pro-market than previous NHS structures, 50% of respondents said they were likely to make greater use of alternative providers and increased competition. The Guardian
NHS managers' standards set after Mid-Staffs
NHS managers' standards set after Mid-Staffs: All NHS managers should sign up to new standards pledging that care and compassion is the at the heart of their work, in the aftermath of the Mid-Staffs and other scandals, Jeremy Hunt, the Health Secretary has said.
The Daily Telegraph
The Daily Telegraph
Subscribe to:
Posts (Atom)