Hospital discharge funding: why the frosty reception to new money? The latest announcement of an additional £200m to speed up hospital discharge into social care services means that in a matter of months the government has committed a total of £750m to free up beds in beleaguered acute hospitals throughout England. That’s a weighty sum, yet the response from many social care leaders and health professionals has been decidedly mixed, if not hostile. When social care is desperate for resources and hospitals are desperate for beds, why the negativity? The Health Foundation
Brexit, Covid and the UK’s reliance on international recruitment Our recent report considered the impact of Brexit on health across three major areas, including staffing. In this guest blog, Professor James Buchan focuses on the largest health professional labour market, which is nurses, and argues that the UK must get smarter and safer in how it uses international recruitment. Nuffield Trust
Two in three Britons say NHS services are ‘bad’ Two in three voters have described NHS services as “bad”, according to a new poll revealing that Britons appear to be losing faith in the health service.
Some 67 per cent of people say NHS services were bad and only 22 per cent say they are good, according to the YouGov survey – which also found 78 per cent think the health service if currently operating “badly”. The Independent
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Record levels of NHS staff resign as nurses say they are ‘broken’ A record number of NHS staff have quit as better pay and work-life balance drive health workers out, new data has revealed.
Nurses have said they are “truly broken” as 42,400 staff voluntarily quit their NHS jobs in quarter two of last year – higher than any quarter over the last decade. The Independent
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Making speaking up business as usual: National Guardian's Office annual report 2022 The report shares intelligence and learning collated by the National Guardian’s Office, including speaking up data shared by Freedom to Speak Up guardians of the cases they receive. Over 20,000 cases have been brought to them last year, remaining at the record level set in 2020/21 (20,362, compared with 20,388 in 2020/21). Freedom to Speak Up guardians have handled over 75,000 cases since the National Guardian’s Office first started collecting data in 2017.
The report also features case studies from across England and different healthcare providers, sharing the experiences of people who have spoken up and the difference Freedom to Speak Up guardians are making. In the words of one group of workers, “It finally felt that we were being listened to and our opinions and thoughts mattered.”
UKHSA update on scarlet fever and invasive group A strep The latest data from the UK Health Security Agency (UKHSA) continues to show scarlet fever and group A strep (GAS) infections remain high, although the number of notifications has fallen in recent weeks.
