Thursday, 22 December 2022

Northamptonshire stroke patients' initiative wins a top prize at a national event

Northamptonshire stroke patients' initiative wins a top prize at a national event A county stroke team has won a top national prize for the way it has involved patients in shaping future care.

The Northamptonshire Community Stroke Team has won the UK Stroke Forum’s Patient, Carer and Public Involvement Prize.

The team – which is based at Northampton General Hospital but serves the whole county – won the prize for their entry “Meaningfully amplifying the patient voice in a Northamptonshire Community Stroke Team.” Northampton Chronicle and Echo
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Kettering: Man appears at Crown Court accused of murdering nurse and children

Kettering: Man appears at Crown Court accused of murdering nurse and children A man accused killing an NHS nurse and her two young children has been remanded in custody until next year.

Anju Asok, 35, Jeeva Saju, six, and Janvi Saju, four, were found with serious injuries at Saju Chelavalel's home in Kettering on Thursday.

Mr Chelavalel, 52, of Petherton Court, appeared via video link at Northampton Crown Court and was remanded until a plea hearing on 24 March. BBC Northampton

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'It's not about pay' - 'underfunded, misused and mistreated' Kettering ambulance crews explain why they are striking

'It's not about pay' - 'underfunded, misused and mistreated' Kettering ambulance crews explain why they are striking East Midlands Ambulance Service (EMAS) staff – paramedics and technicians – have been manning picket lines in their first 24-hour strike.

Some staff will still be attending 999 calls for the most serious categories of emergency as colleagues highlight the state of the ambulance service.

The GMB trade union, that represents EMAS staff, received enough votes to mandate strike action, including its Northamptonshire employees. Northamptonshire Telegraph

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Ambulance staff strikes: facts and figures on the ambulance workforce

Ambulance staff strikes: facts and figures on the ambulance workforce A summary of key facts and statistics to help understand the ambulance workforce and the strikes. Nuffield Trust

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Connected: remote technology in mental health services

Connected: remote technology in mental health services This briefing summarises evidence from six studies on the use of digital and telephone technology to deliver mental health services. It finds that using remote technology can improve access to mental health support for rural communities, disabled people or people needing a specialist service far from home. It has the potential to increase access and choice in mental health care. But it also risks exacerbating inequalities for people who are digitally excluded. Centre for Mental Health
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    Understanding the fundamental role of racism in ethnic inequities in Covid-19 vaccine hesitancy

    Understanding the fundamental role of racism in ethnic inequities in Covid-19 vaccine hesitancy The briefing from the Runnymede Trust and the University of Manchester’s Centre on the Dynamics of Ethnicity uses data from the UK Household Longitudinal Study to show that institutional and community-level factors, driven by structural and institutional racism, explain the large majority of ethnic inequities in vaccination rates. Centre on the Dynamics of Ethnicity
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    UK cements 10-year-partnership with Moderna in major boost for vaccines and research

    UK cements 10-year-partnership with Moderna in major boost for vaccines and research Patients in the UK will be protected against potential future global health threats, including potential pandemics, thanks to a deal struck between the government and Moderna.

    The investment means NHS patients will be able to receive UK-manufactured mRNA vaccines, as the UK cements its status as a life sciences superpower.

    The partnership with Moderna will see a new Innovation and Technology Centre in the UK, which will create more than 150 highly skilled jobs and have the capacity to produce up to 250 million vaccines per year in the event of a pandemic. Department of Health and Social Care
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    Ambulance strike: Warning of very challenging days ahead

    Ambulance strike: Warning of very challenging days ahead Hospitals were quieter than normal during Wednesday's ambulance strikes, but Thursday is likely to be "very challenging" with lots of patients turning up, health bosses say.

    Only the most serious 999 calls were responded to.

    But there was no evidence of people going to A&E in taxis or their own cars, NHS Providers told the BBC. BBC News

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    UK hospices warn of bed closures and staff cuts as energy bills soar

    UK hospices warn of bed closures and staff cuts as energy bills soar Hospice charities providing end-of-life services in partnership with the NHS have warned they will have to shut beds and sack staff because of the catastrophic impact of rising energy bills on their day-to-day running costs.

    The UK’s network of independent, mainly voluntary-run palliative care providers said hospices were experiencing a perfect storm of soaring costs and rising demand just as revenues from traditional public fundraising methods are collapsing. The Guardian
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    So where DOES the money go? The graph breaking down the 'broken' NHS's finances

    So where DOES the money go? The graph breaking down the 'broken' NHS's finances The NHS could stump up cash to pay striking staff better wages if it cut down on 'unacceptable levels of waste and mismanagement', campaigners claimed today.

    Thousands of ambulance staff today staged walkouts across England and Wales, in the largest 999 strikes since the 1980s. Nurses have also walked out twice in the last week and junior doctors could join them in the new year. The Daily Mail
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    Wednesday, 21 December 2022

    What patients can expect as East Midlands Ambulance Service staff strike across Northamptonshire

    What patients can expect as East Midlands Ambulance Service staff strike across Northamptonshire Paramedics and staff from East Midlands Ambulance Service (EMAS) staff will be on strike on Wednesday (December 21) in a dispute with the Government about pay.

    The GMB trade union that represents EMAS staff received enough votes to mandate strike action, which will include Northamptonshire employees. EMAS says of its workforce of more than 4,000, the strike action could affect up to 50 percent. Northamptonshire Telegraph

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    Striking nurses hold vigil for mum and two children

    Striking nurses hold vigil for mum and two children A group of nurses broke away from the picket line to hold a one-minute silence in memory of a colleague who died along with her two children.

    Anju Asok, 35, Jeeva Saju, six, and Janvi Saju, four, were found with serious injuries at an address in Petherton Court, Kettering, Northamptonshire, on Thursday. BBC Northampton
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    Northampton General Hospital information champions do well in national awards

    Northampton General Hospital information champions do well in national awards Work by information governance experts at Northampton General Hospital has been rated as some of the best in the country in a national awards scheme.

    Sally Berrill, has won the Information Sharing Champion of the Year Award in the National Health and Social Care Strategic Information Governance Network Awards. News (dsptoolkit.nhs.uk). Northampton Chronicle and Echo

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    Managing expectations: the NHS’s challenging activity and efficiency targets

    Managing expectations: the NHS’s challenging activity and efficiency targets The NHS in England approached the Autumn Statement amid deep concern over rising costs and alarming performance statistics. The extra £3.3bn allocated in 2023/24 and 2024/25 will have been greeted with relief. Although NHS England’s Chief Executive Amanda Pritchard said this funding should be ‘sufficient’ to fulfil the NHS’s key priorities, it is hard to overstate the scale of the task ahead. The Health Foundation

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    Recovering elective waits inclusively: where to start?

    Recovering elective waits inclusively: where to start? Can the NHS effectively combine the aims of clearing the elective backlog and tackling health inequalities? It’s a question that systems and providers have been faced with since NHS England requested that recovery in the wake of the pandemic is managed inclusively. Some may think these aims are at odds with one another, while others will champion their unification. In the first stage of a new research project about inclusive approaches to reducing the backlog, we have been looking at what we can learn from NHS boards about how this issue is playing out. The King's Fund
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    Comparisons of all-cause mortality between European countries and regions: 28 December 2019 to week ending 1 July 2022

    Comparisons of all-cause mortality between European countries and regions: 28 December 2019 to week ending 1 July 2022 Comparisons of all-cause excess mortality on a weekly basis since the start of the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic. Measures include relative age-standardised mortality rates and relative cumulative age-standardised mortality rates. Office for National Statistics

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    Ambulance strike: Hospital chiefs warn of patient safety risk

    Ambulance strike: Hospital chiefs warn of patient safety risk The risk to patients will only get worse unless the government reaches an agreement to prevent further strikes, NHS leaders have warned.

    In a letter to the prime minister and health secretary, they said there was "deep worry" about Wednesday's strike.

    People are being asked to only call 999 in a life-threatening emergency, but NHS England says emergency care will continue to be provided.

    Ambulance response times are already twice as long as two years ago. BBC News

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    I’ve never seen the NHS pushed so hard. It’s not the system that’s breaking now, it’s the people

    I’ve never seen the NHS pushed so hard. It’s not the system that’s breaking now, it’s the people | The Secret Consultant This week, the chair of the General Medical Council offered an extraordinary message of support to doctors. What was striking about this was not its tone, but its content. Nowhere was anything said about how to do our jobs, or how to be better doctors; the message was simple. It asked us to be compassionate and to be kind, to ourselves and to one another. The Guardian
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    A cure for long covid? Combination of concussion and ADHD drugs could treat brain fog and memory

    A cure for long covid? Combination of concussion and ADHD drugs could treat brain fog and memory Two already-approved drugs may effectively treat the millions of Americans estimated to have long Covid.

    Guanfacine, an Attention Deficit/Hyperactive Disorder (ADHD) drug sold under the name Tenex, and N-acetylcysteine (NAC), a concussion drug that is branded Mucomyst were found to reduce brain fog in two-thirds of patients. The Daily Mail

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    Tuesday, 20 December 2022

    NHS 'shining stars' celebrated at awards ceremony in Northamptonshire

    NHS 'shining stars' celebrated at awards ceremony in Northamptonshire Northamptonshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust (NHFT) held its annual staff awards ceremony on Thursday 15 December 2022 to recognise and honour its ‘shining stars’ – the doctors, nurses, allied health professionals and other NHS colleagues working to provide outstanding care to patients across the county. Northampton Chronicle and Echo
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