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BBC’s State of the NHS: Keep Calm and Carry-On (BBC News)
Summary Continuing in the vein of the broad theme of BMJ’s mini-series on the NHS in 2017, BBC News is currently running a short season of news pieces on the State of the NHS (and social care). Concentrating the Mind … Continue reading →
Posted in Acute Hospitals, BBC News, Commissioning, Community Care, Delirium, Department of Health, For Nurses and Therapists (mostly), For Researchers (mostly), For Social Workers (mostly), In the News, Integrated Care, Mental Health, National, NHS, NHS England, Northern Ireland, Person-Centred Care, Quick Insights, Scotland, Standards, Statistics, UK, Universal Interest, Wales
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Tagged A&E Four-Hour Wait Standard, Ageing Population, Assaults, Barking Havering and Redbridge University Hospitals NHS Trust, BBC Health News, BBC News: Today (Radio 4), BBC Panorama, BBC Politics News, BBC Radio 4's Today Programme, BBC's NHS Week (2017), BBC's World At One Programme, Beacon Medical Group (Plymouth), Bed Availability and Occupancy, Bed Availability and Occupancy: NHS Statistical Trends, Bed Shortages, Better Care Fund (BCF), Bristol Royal Infirmary, Care Closer to Home, Care Home Admission Delay, Care of Older People, Chris Hopson: Chief Executive of NHS Providers, Councillor Izzi Seccombe: Local Government Association (LGA), David McNulty: Surrey County Council, David Williams: Chief Officer for Glasgow City Health and Social Care Partnership, Delayed Discharges, Delayed Transfers of Care, Demand and Capacity, Demand for A&E, Economic Sustainability, Fewer Older People Receiving Help with Social Care, Financial Sustainability in the NHS, Former Health Secretary Jeremy Hunt, Funding Deficits, Funding for Front-Line Healthcare Versus Social Care, Germany, Germany's Healthcare System, Gesundes Kinzigtal, Gesundes Kinzigtal Model, Glasgow City Council, Health and Care of Older People, Health and Social Care in the Community, Health and Social Care Integration, Health Demand, Historic Increases in NHS Funding Slowing (Relatively), Hospital Discharge Delays, Humanitarian Crisis in NHS Hospitals and Ambulance Services (Allegation), Hywel Dda University Health Board, Increases in NHS Spending Slowed (Relatively), International Comparisons, Ipsos Mori, Ipsos MORI Issues Index (January 2017), Izzi Seccombe: Warwickshire County Council Leader, Local Government Association: LGA, London Borough of Newham, London Borough of Sutton, Long Waiting Times, Low Morale, Milton Keynes University Hospital NHS Foundation Trust, More Spent on Front-Line Healthcare Than Social Care, Moving Healthcare Closer to Home, Multidisciplinary Teams, Multidisciplinary Teamwork, National Living Wage in Social Care Sector, NHS Assaults, NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde, NHS Health Check Series: BBC News (2017), NHS in 2017: Service Under Pressure, NHS Protect, NHS Protect: Formerly NHS Counter Fraud Services, NHS Sustainability, Niall Dickson: NHS Confederation, Operations Cancelled Due to Bed Shortages, Panorama (BBC TV), Patient Handover Delays, Patient Safety, Physical Assaults on NHS Staff, Primary Care Home Model, Primary Care Homes, Professor Keith Willett: NHS England, Proportion of Public Spending on Health, Provider Sustainability, Public Perceptions of the NHS and Social Care Tracker (Ipsos MORI), Quality and Sustainability, RCEM’s Steps to Rebuilding Emergency Medicine, Reverse-Acting Hawthorne Effect (Speculative Construct), Robert Bosch Foundation, Routine Operations (Cancellations), Royal Blackburn Hospital, Royal College of Emergency Medicine (RCEM), Rt Hon Jeremy Hunt MP: Former Secretary of State for Health, Sir Robert Francis QC, Social Care Funding 2017: Reality Checks (BBC News), Staffing Levels, State of the NHS (BBC News), Steps to Rebuilding Emergency Medicine (RCEM), Sustainability, Sustainability and Transformation Plans (STPs), Sustainable Funding, Thinking Like a Patient and Acting Like a Taxpayer, Today, Urgent and Emergency Services: 2016-7 Winter From Hell (Allegation), Waiting Times, Wakefield Vanguard Care Homes Scheme, Winter From Hell: 2016-7 (Allegation), Winter Pressures, Wirral University Teaching Hospital NHS Foundation Trust, Wrightington Wigan and Leigh NHS Foundation Trust
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Five Priorities for NHS and Social Care in 2017 (King’s Fund / BBC News / BMJ / Nuffield Trust)
Summary 2017 is going to be challenging for the NHS and social care, as the demand for care outstrips the supply of funding / resources. A King’s Fund briefing identifies five main priorities for the year ahead: Supporting new care … Continue reading →
Posted in Acute Hospitals, BBC News, Charitable Bodies, Commissioning, Community Care, For Doctors (mostly), For Nurses and Therapists (mostly), For Researchers (mostly), For Social Workers (mostly), In the News, Integrated Care, King's Fund, Local Interest, National, NHS, Nuffield Trust, Quick Insights, RCN, Royal College of Psychiatrists, Standards, UK, Universal Interest
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Tagged A&E Four-Hour Wait Standard, A&E Safe Staffing Levels, Accountable Care Organisations (ACOs), Adult Social Care Funding, Ageing Policy in the UK, Ageing Population, Alleged Humanitarian Crisis in NHS (Under-Funding for Social Care), Ambulance Diversions (Away From Over-Stretched Hospitals), Ambulance Diversions (“Diverts”), Available Beds, Bailouts and Rewards for Failure, Barker Commission, BBC News: Today (Radio 4), BBC Newsnight, BBC Politics News, BBC Radio 4 Today, BBC Radio 4's Today Programme, BBC Radio 4: Today Programme, BBC Regional News: Hereford and Worcester, Bed Availability and Occupancy, Black Alerts, BMJ Publishing Group Ltd, Brexit, British Medical Journal (BMJ), British Red Cross, Cancelled Cancer Operations, Cancelled Elective Operations, Cancelled Non-Elective Operations, Cancelled Operations, Cancer Waiting Times, Cancer: Waiting Times for Testing and Treatment, Capped Expenditure Process, Commission on the Future of Health and Social Care in England (Barker Commission), County Durham and Darlington NHS Foundation Trust, Cross-Party and Public Consensus On Sustainable Funding, Demand and Capacity, Demand for Social Care, Demand Versus Capacity Gaps, Department of Health Revenue Underspend (2016/17), Dr Mark Holland, Dr Mark Holland: President of Society For Acute Medicine (SAM), Dr Taj Hassan: President of Royal College of Emergency Medicine, East London NHS Foundation Trust, East Midlands Ambulance Service, Efficiencies and Productivity Gains, Financial Flows in NHS and Social Care, Four-Hour A&E Waiting Time Target, Frimley Park NHS Foundation Trust, Funding Deficits, Health and Social Care in the Community, Health Demand, Healthwatch Worcestershire, Hip and Knee Operations: Rationing, Humanitarian Crisis in NHS Hospitals and Ambulance Services (Allegation), Ian Eardley: Vice President of RCS, Inadequate Staffing, Jacqueline McKenna: Director of Nursing and Professional Leadership at NHS Improvement, Jeremy Corbyn (Labour Party Leader), Katherine Murphy: Chief Executive of the Patients Association, King’s Fund Barker Commission, Leadership Development, Long Waiting Times, Lord Carter Review, Lord Rose Report on Leadership in the NHS, Lord Rose Report: Better Leadership for Tomorrow, Low Morale, Mike Adamson: Chief Executive of British Red Cross, Mixed-Sex Accommodation (MSA) Breaches, Mixed-Sex Hospital Accommodation, New Care Models, New Models of Care, New Models of Service, NHS England’s Five Year Forward View, NHS England’s New Models of Care Programme, NHS Five Year Forward View (5YFV), NHS in 2017: Service Under Pressure, NHS Rationing, NHS Redditch and Bromsgrove CCG, NHS Safe Staffing, NHS South Worcestershire CCG, NHS Sustainability, NHS Trust Financial Deficits, NHS Waiting Times, NHS Wyre Forest CCG, Non-Emergency Waiting Times, Northumbria Healthcare NHS Trust, Nurse Staffing Levels, OPEL Level 3 Alerts, OPEL Level 4 Alerts, Operational Pressures Escalation Levels, Operational Pressures Escalation Levels (OPELs), Operational Pressures Escalation Levels Framework (NHS England), Operational Productivity and Performance (Carter Report), Patient Safety, Patients Seen in 4 Hours: NHS Local Performance Tracking Service (NHS Winter Project), Patients Waiting More Than Four Hours For Hospital Beds (Trolley Waits), Pennine Acute Hospitals NHS Trust, Peter Pinfield: Chairman of Healthwatch Worcestershire, Population Health, Priorities for Health and Social Care (King’s Fund), Priorities For NHS and Social Care in 2017, Productivity Improvements, Productivity in the NHS, Professor Keith Willett: NHS England’s Director of Acute Care, Public Dissatisfaction With Austerity, Red Cross, Referral to Treatment Waiting Times, Restrictions on Non-Emergency Surgery, Reverse-Acting Hawthorne Effect (Speculative Construct), Royal College of Emergency Medicine (RCEM), Royal College of Nursing (RCN), Royal College of Physicians (RCP), Royal College of Surgeons (RCS), Sick Man of Europe (Redefined), Simon Stevens: Chief Executive of NHS England, Society for Acute Medicine (SAM), South Tyneside NHS Foundation Trust, Staffing Levels, Sustainability, Sustainability and Transformation Plans (STPs), Sustainable Funding, The #OurNHS March (2017), Thinking Like a Patient and Acting Like a Taxpayer, Unhealthy Lifestyles, Unspoken Political Context: Weaponising the NHS (Speculative Construct), Urgent and Emergency Services: 2016-7 Winter From Hell (Allegation), Vacant NHS Posts, Waiting Times, Waiting Times for Planned Treatments, Western Sussex NHS Foundation Trust, Winter From Hell: 2016-7 (Allegation), Winter Pressures, Worcestershire Acute Hospitals NHS Trust, Worcestershire Royal Hospital
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Updated UK Dementia Atlas (Department of Health / BBC News)
Summary The Department of Health’s updated dementia atlas reveals the “postcode lottery” of regional variations in how well the local services in different areas perform in the prevention, diagnosis, support and care for people with dementia. The dementia atlas maps five … Continue reading →
Posted in Acute Hospitals, Age UK, Alzheimer's Society, Antipsychotics, BBC News, Charitable Bodies, Commissioning, Community Care, Department of Health, Diagnosis, End of Life Care, For Carers (mostly), For Doctors (mostly), For Nurses and Therapists (mostly), For Researchers (mostly), For Social Workers (mostly), In the News, Integrated Care, Local Interest, Management of Condition, Mental Health, Models of Dementia Care, National, NHS, NHS England, Non-Pharmacological Treatments, Patient Care Pathway, Patient Information, Person-Centred Care, Quick Insights, Standards, Statistics, UK, Universal Interest
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Tagged Annual Health Checks, Assessment and Diagnosis, Atlas of Variation, Attitudes Towards Dementia, Awareness About Dementia Risk Reduction Among People in Midlife, BBC Health News, BBC News: Today (Radio 4), BBC Radio 4, BBC Radio 4's Today Programme, Benchmarking, Benchmarking Tools, Building Dementia Friendly Communities, Capability Mapping, Carey Mulligan: UK Global Dementia Friends Ambassador, Carey Mulligan: With Michael Parkinson and Michael Palin, Caroline Abrahams: Director of Age UK, Challenge on Dementia 2020 Implementation Plan, Changing Global Attitudes Towards Dementia, Community Mapping, Dementia and Music, Dementia Atlas, Dementia Atlas (2016), Dementia Atlas (Shape Atlas), Dementia Atlas: Putting a Focus on Dementia, Dementia Awareness, Dementia Awareness Raising, Dementia Benchmarking Framework, Dementia Friends, Dementia Map, Dementia Prevalence, Dementia Prevalence by Local Authority, Dementia Profile: PHE Fingertips Tool, Dementia Risk Reduction Among People in Midlife: NHS Health Checks, Dementia-Friendly Communities, Dementia-Friendly Organisations, Dementia: End of Life, Diagnosis Rates, Diagnosis Rates (Regional UK), Emergency Admissions, Extension of Dementia Risk Reduction Component of the NHS Health Check to 40-64 Year Olds, Geographical Variations, George McNamara: Head of Policy and Public Affairs at Alzheimer’s Society, Health Inequalities, Health Inequalities in England, Heathrow Airport, Joint Dementia Research, Local Health Services: Variations, Local Variations, Map of Care Home Ratings in England, Mental Health Inequalities, Mortality Rates, NHS Atlases, NHS Atlases of Variation, NHS Benchmarking, NHS Health Check Dementia Pilots, NHS Health Check Dementia Pilots: Birmingham, NHS Health Check Dementia Pilots: Bury, NHS Health Check Dementia Pilots: Manchester City, NHS Health Check Dementia Pilots: Southampton City, NHS Waiting Times, Participation in Research, Patient Involvement in Research, Post-Diagnostic Dementia Care And Support, Postcode Lottery, Postcode Lottery of Dementia Management, Preferred Place of Death, Prescribing Anti-Psychotic Drugs to People with Dementia, Prime Minister’s Challenge On Dementia 2020, Public Involvement in Research, Reducing Health Inequalities, Referral to Treatment Waiting Times, Regional Variations, Shape Atlas, UK Global Dementia Friends Ambassador, Unacceptable Variations, Unwarranted Variations, Variations in Care, Variations in Service, Variations in Social Care in England, Well Dementia Pathway, Well Pathway for Dementia (NHS England): Commissioning Well, Well Pathway for Dementia (NHS England): Diagnosing Well, Well Pathway for Dementia (NHS England): Dying Well, Well Pathway for Dementia (NHS England): Integrating Well, Well Pathway for Dementia (NHS England): Living Well, Well Pathway for Dementia (NHS England): Monitoring Well, Well Pathway for Dementia (NHS England): Preventing Well, Well Pathway for Dementia (NHS England): Researching Well, Well Pathway for Dementia (NHS England): Supporting Well, Well Pathway for Dementia (NHS England): Training Well
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Whistleblowing in the NHS: Theory Versus Practice? (BBC News / Whistleblowing Helpline / NAO / SCIE)
Summary Dr Raj Mattu, a heart specialist was dismissed by University Hospital of Coventry and Warwickshire NHS Trust in 2010, after almost a decade of alleged unfair treatment by his employers, since exposing the cases of two patients who had … Continue reading →
Posted in Acute Hospitals, BBC News, In the News, National, National Audit Office, NHS, Practical Advice, Quick Insights, Standards, UK, Universal Interest
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Tagged BBC Health News, BBC News: Coventry & Warwickshire, BBC News: Today (Radio 4), BBC Radio 4: Today Programme, Behaviours to Enable Whistleblowing, Bullying of Whistleblowers, Candour, Character Assassination of Whistleblowers, Corporate Self-Interest (Ahead of Patients), Culture of Delay and Denial, Defensive Leadership, Dr Raj Mattu (Consultant), Fear of Raising Concerns About Care, Flowchart of Whistleblowing Process, Freedom To Speak Up Review (Sir Robert Francis QC), Goldman Sachs, Harassment of Whistleblowers, HMRC, Honesty, House of Commons, House of Commons Committee of Public Accounts, Improving Patient Safety, Incentivising Candour, Local Ward Cultures, Margaret Hodge, Mid Staffordshire NHS Foundation Trust, Mid Staffordshire NHS Foundation Trust Inquiry, National Audit Office (NAO), Negative Culture, NHS Constitution, NHS Constitution and Whistleblowing, NHS Corporate Self-Interest, NHS Culture, NHS Hospitals Complaints System, NHS Managerial Self-Interest, Openness, Openness and Transparency, Organisational and Professional Cultures, Organisational Culture and Climate, Parliamentarians, Patient Safety, Patient Safety Incidents, Patients First and Foremost, Public Accounts Committee, Public Concern at Work, Public Disclosure Act (1988), Public Interest Disclosure Act 1998 (PIDA), Putting Patients First, Qualtrics, Raising Concerns, Raising Concerns Around Deaths, Raising Concerns Policy, Reluctance to Raise Concerns About Care, SCIE Social Care TV, Shaping Culture, Sir Robert Francis QC, Social Care Code of Conduct, Social Care Commitment, Social Care TV, Speaking Out, Staff Awareness, Stages in Raising Concerns, Structures to Enable Whistleblowing, Systems to Support Whistleblowing, Treatment of Whistleblowers (Shoddy), Trust Blame and the Culture of Defensiveness, Victimisation of Whistleblowers, Whistleblowing, Whistleblowing Guidance, Whistleblowing Helpline, Whistleblowing in the Public Sector, Whistleblowing In the Wind, Whistleblowing Policy, Winterbourne View Hospital, Workplace Culture, Zero Tolerance Approaches
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