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Monthly Archives: August 2016
NHS Reconfiguration + STPs = Cut-Backs?: Two Sides of Same Equation? (NHS England / King’s Fund / Nuffield Trust / BBC News)
Summary The “Keep calm and carry on”-style narrative from officialdom. Full Text Link Reference NHS England statement on Sustainability and Transformation Plans. [Online]: NHS England, August 26th 2016. Theoretical clarification concerning STPs, from the King’s Fund Full Text Link Reference … Continue reading
Posted in Acute Hospitals, BBC News, Charitable Bodies, Commissioning, Community Care, Department of Health, For Carers (mostly), For Doctors (mostly), For Nurses and Therapists (mostly), For Researchers (mostly), For Social Workers (mostly), In the News, Integrated Care, King's Fund, Management of Condition, National, NHS, NHS England, NHS Improvement, Nuffield Trust, Person-Centred Care, Quick Insights, Standards, Statistics, UK, Universal Interest
Tagged 38 Degrees (Campaign Group), 5YFV: NHS Five Year Forward View, Accountability and Transparency, Achieving Better Value, Acute Care, Acute Hospital Care, Ageing Population, Ageing Society, £1.8 Billion One-Off NHS Trust Deficits Bailout, Better Care Fund (BCF), Better Care Together (BCT), Better Value, Better Value Healthcare, Better Value in the NHS, Challenges of Reconfiguration, Chorley and South Ribble Hospital, Chris Hopson: Chief Executive of NHS Providers, Collaboration, Collaboration for Coordinated Care, Collaboration: Working Across Boundaries, Councillor Izzi Seccombe: Local Government Association (LGA), County Hospital (Previously Stafford Hospital), David Pearson: Director of Adult Social Care of Nottinghamshire County Council - Nottinghamshire STP Footprint Lead, Deficits in the NHS 2016 (King’s Fund), Dr Clifford Mann: President of the College of Emergency Medicine, Economic Sustainability, Efficiency Opportunities, Efficiency Savings, Emergency Care Improvement Programme (ECIP), Emergency Preparedness Resilience and Response (EPRR), Faustian Pact: Trading £8 Billion in Extra Funding For £22 Billion in Efficiency Savings, Financial Constraints, Financial Context, Financial Difficulties, Financial Incentives Across Local Health and Social Care Systems (Proposals), Financial Performance, Financial Planning, Financial Position of NHS Trusts, Financial Pressure in the NHS, Financial Pressure on Hospitals, Financial Pressures, Financial Resilience, Financial Sustainability in the NHS, Five Year Forward View (NHS England), Frail Older People, Frail Older People With Complex Needs, Funding Challenges, Funding Deficits, Funding Gap in Secondary Care, General Hospitals, Grantham and District Hospital, Health and Social Care Configuration, Honesty and Transparency, Hospital Productivity, Hospital Reconfiguration, House of Commons Health Committee’s Inquiry Into Winter Pressures (2016), How Things Went £3.7 Billion Wrong, Implications of Sustainability and Transformation Plans (STPs): Inadequate Public Consultation (King’s Fund Allegation), Implications of Sustainability and Transformation Plans (STPs): Pre-Determined Solutions, Improving Patient Flow, Incipient Negativism, Integrated and Community-Based Care, Integrated Home and Community Care Services, Integration of Health and Social Care, Jeremy Taylor (Chief Executive of National Voices), Leeds Teaching Hospitals Trust, Leicester, Leicester Leicestershire and Rutland STP Footprint, LLR STP, Local Solutions: Place-Based Approaches, Medical Director of NHS England: Professor Sir Bruce Keogh, Midlands and East Commissioning Region, Midlands and East of England Commissioning Region, Multi-Agency Collaboration, Multisectoral Collaboration, NHS Challenges and New Solutions, NHS Efficiency Savings, NHS England Funding, NHS Expenditure, NHS Finances to 2020, NHS Financial Leadership, NHS Foundation Trust Performance, NHS Foundation Trusts, NHS Foundation Trusts (NHSFTs), NHS Funding, NHS Funding Gap, NHS Midlands and East, NHS Performance, NHS Performance Indicators, NHS Productivity, NHS Providers, NHS Safe Staffing, NHS Service Reconfiguration, NHS Spending, NHS Sustainability, NHS Timebomb [sic], Openness and Collaboration, Optimism Bias (In the Face of Difficulties), Partnership and Collaboration, Performance Indicators, Performance Targets, Policy, Policy Context, Population Health, Population Health Systems, Population Healthcare, Productivity, Productivity in the NHS, RDEL, Redesigning Care Pathways, Redesigning Services, Reducing Drains on the NHS, Reducing Overuse Underuse and Misuse, Richard Murray: Director of Policy at the King’s Fund, Richard Taylor Effect [sic], Rising Expectations, Safe Staffing, Sir Bruce Keogh (Former Chief Executive of the NHS Commissioning Board; now NHS England), Stevens Challenge, STP Footprints, STP Process Timeline Summary, Sustainability, Sustainability and Transformation Fund (STF), Sustainability and Transformation Leaders, Sustainability and Transformation Plan, Sustainability and Transformation Plan (STP), Sustainability and Transformation Plans (STPs), Sustainability and Transformation Plans: Questions Over Opaque Development Practices, System Control Totals (Financial Targets), System Leadership, Thinking Like a Patient and Acting Like a Taxpayer, Toby Sanders: Accountable Officer of West Leicestershire CCG - Leicester of Leicestershire and Rutland STP Footprint Lead, Toby Sanders: Chief Officer at NHS West Leicestershire CCG, Top-Down Policy (Masquerading as Collaboration), Towards Excellence in Adult Social Care Programme (LGA), Transformation Footprints, Transformation Funding, Transparency, Transparency Versus The Richard Taylor Effect, Troubled NHS Foundation Trusts, Turning the Ship Around (Avoidance of NHS Unsustainability), Unit Costs Up + Activity Up = Commissioners Go Bust, Upward Spending Pressures, Waiting Time Standards, Waiting Time Target Breaches, Weston Area Health NHS Trust, Weston General Hospital, Winter Pressures, Winter Pressures Beyond Winter (Winter Re-Defined?)
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Patterns in the Development of Alzheimer’s Disease? (NHS Choices / Science Advances)
Summary Patterns of gene activity (gene expression) in specific areas of the brain may help explain why Alzheimer’s Disease tends to start in certain regions before spreading further through the brain. “ …those regions of the brain in which tissues … Continue reading
Posted in For Doctors (mostly), For Researchers (mostly), In the News, NHS Digital (Previously NHS Choices), Quick Insights, UK, Universal Interest
Tagged Abnormal Proteins, Abnormal Proteins (Tau), Aβ Accumulation, Aβ Seeds, Aβ-Plaques, Allen Brain Atlas, Allen Brain Atlas: 3-D Digital Images of Gene Expression, Amyloid and Tau Imaging, Amyloid Beta Protein, Amyloid-β (Aβ), Amyloid-β (Aβ) Accumulation, Behind the Headlines, Braak Staging, Braak Staging of Alzheimer’s Disease, Department of Chemistry: University of Cambridge, Department of Molecular Biosciences: Northwestern University, Histopathological Staging of Alzheimer's Disease, Immune System, Immune System and Neurodegenerative Diseases, Levels of Genes Associated with Inflammation Mapped to Brain Areas, Mapping Brain Areas Affected in Early-Stage Alzheimer's Disease, Mapping Brain Areas Genetically Primed For Protein Overgrowth, Mapping Brain Areas Showing First Signs of Alzheimer's Disease, Mapping Brain Areas Susceptible to Protein Growth Due to Levels of Protein Expression, Mapping Brain Areas Vulnerable to Protein Overgrowth, Mapping Brain Areas: Allen Brain Atlas, Neurofibrillary Tangles, Northwestern University (USA), Pathological Staging, Patterns in the Development of Alzheimer’s Disease, Protein Aggregation, Protein Homeostasis, Protein Misfolding, Protein Overgrowth, Protein Plaques, Protein Seeds (Amyloid), Science Advances, Tau Aggregation, Tau Tangles, Tissue-Specific Progression of Alzheimer's Disease, University of Cambridge, USA, Vulnerability Patterns for Alzheimer's Disease
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Challenges in the Creation of a Seven-Day NHS: Leaked Update (BBC News)
Summary A confidential Department of Health review of government plans for a seven-day NHS in England, “leaked” to the Guardian newspaper and Channel 4 News, identifies 13 potential risks; including concerns over staff-shortages, workforce overload and the general lack of … Continue reading
Posted in BBC News, Commissioning, Community Care, Department of Health, For Carers (mostly), For Doctors (mostly), For Nurses and Therapists (mostly), For Researchers (mostly), For Social Workers (mostly), In the News, Integrated Care, National, NHS, NHS England, Quick Insights, Standards, UK, Universal Interest
Tagged 7 Day Services Governance Group, Audit and Risk, Audit and Risk Assurance Committee, £10 Billion of Investment in NHS, Building the Evidence Base: Regarding How 7-day Services Impact on GPs Hospitals and Urgent and Emergency Care, Care Seven Days a Week, Channel 4 News, Consequences of the Francis Inquiry Report, Culture Change in the NHS, Culture of Safety, Diane Abbott (Labour), Diane Abbott: Labour Shadow Health Secretary, Doctors and Nurses (Demand Versus Capacity), Dr Mark Porter: Chair of Council at British Medical Association, Elevated Weekend Hospital Mortality, Erroneous or Simplistic Misinterpretations of the Weekend Effect, Extra Doctors and Nurses Recruited, Financial Sustainability in the NHS, Five Year Forward View, Five Year Forward View (NHS England), Former Health Secretary Jeremy Hunt, Guardian, Guardian (Newspaper), Joanne Shaw: Audit and Risk Assurance Committee Chair, Joanne Shaw: Non-Executive Director and Chair of Audit at National Audit Office, Money Well Spent, News Manipulation and Intransigence, NHS Culture, Patient Safety, Patient Safety in the NHS, Repercussions From the Francis Inquiry Report, Risk Register for 7 Day Services Programme, Rt Hon Jeremy Hunt MP: Former Secretary of State for Health, Service Redesign, Seven Day Care in England, Seven Day NHS Pledge: Potential Problem of Delivering Against Plan Without Achieving Desired Change, Seven Day NHS Pledge: Potential Problem of Missing the Point (Not Reducing Unacceptable Variations in Care Quality), Seven Day NHS Pledge: Potential Problem of Missing the Point (Some Statisticians Now Claim Weekend Effect Does Not / Did Not Exist), Seven Day NHS Pledge: Problem of Resources, Seven Day NHS Pledge: Problem of Staff Shortages, Seven Day NHS Pledge: Problem of Unwillingness or Incapacity for Doing More With Less, Seven Day NHS Pledge: Problem of Workforce Overload, Seven Day NHS Pledge: Problems Identified in Leaked Confidential Department of Health Review, Seven Day Services, Seven-Day GP Access, Seven-Day Hospital Services, Seven-Day NHS Services, Seven-Day Opening, Seven-Day Working, Statistical Epiphenomena, Sustainability, Sustainable Funding, Sustainable Health and Care Services, System Re-Design, Thinking Like a Patient and Acting Like a Taxpayer, Unspoken Political Context: Weaponising the NHS (Speculative Construct), Weekend Effect, Weekend Mortality Rates, Weekend Services, Weekend Working
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Earlier Diagnosis of Parkinson’s Disease? (BBC News / Acta Neuropathologica Communications)
Summary Recent animal research, using rats, suggests there may be a cheap and non-invasive method of detecting Parkinson’s Disease early – before symptoms develop – by identifying changes in the eye. The same study also offers early evidence for a … Continue reading
Posted in Animal Studies, BBC News, Diagnosis, For Doctors (mostly), For Researchers (mostly), In the News, Parkinson's Disease, Pharmacological Treatments, Quick Insights, UK
Tagged Acta Neuropathologica Communications, BBC Health News, Belgium, Biomarkers, DARC: Detection of Apoptosing Retinal Cells, Department of Biology: University of Leuven, Department of Surgery and Cancer: Imperial College London, Drug Discovery Programmes, Early Diagnosis, Early Diagnosis of Parkinson’s Disease, Eye Test to Detect Parkinson's Disease, Faculty of Medicine: Imperial College London, HEYEX® Thickness Map Analysis (Heidelberg Engineering), Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust, Imperial College London, Imperial College Ophthalmology Research Group (ICORG): Imperial College London, Liposomal Formulation of PPAR-γ (Peroxisome Proliferator-Activated Receptor Gamma) Agonist Rosiglitazone, Liposome-Encapsulated Rosiglitazone, Loss of Dopaminergic Neurons in pars compacta of Substantia Nigra (SNpc), Neural Circuit Development and Regeneration Research Group: University of Leuven, Neurodegeneration, Neurodegenerative Disease Research, Neurodegenerative Diseases, Neurodegenerative Disorders, Neurodegenerative Research, Neuroprotective Agents, Neuroprotective Effect of Rosiglitazone, Nigrostriatal Neurons, Non-Invasive Biomarkers, Ocular Manifestations in Neurodegenerative Diseases, Parkinson’s UK, Preclinical Biomarkers in Parkinson's Disease, Rats, Retina as Early Biomarker of Neurodegeneration, Retinal Assessments Using DARC (Detection of Apoptosing Retinal Cells), Retinal Biomarkers, Retinal Changes as Surrogate Biomarker for Parkinson's Disease, Retinal Ganglion Cells (RGCs), Retinal Manifestations of Parkinson's Disease, Retinal Thickness, Rosiglitazone, Rotenone-Induced Model of Parkinson's Disease, School of Pharmacy: University of London, Substantia Nigra, Surrogate Biomarkers of Neurodegeneration, UCL Institute of Ophthalmology: University College London, University College London (UCL), University of Leuven, Western Eye Hospital: Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust
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