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Tag Archives: Gaming Public Opinion
New Year – Same Old NHS Winter Pressures: Some Recent Responses to Excess Public Demand for Services (BBC News / RCGP / NHS England / King’s Fund)
Summary Other Northern European nations, North America etc. have more extreme and colder Winters, yet their health systems appear not to buckle under these predictable seasonal pressures. Here are some recent responses and initiatives, as mentioned in the news, aiming … Continue reading →
Posted in Acute Hospitals, BBC News, Commissioning, Community Care, For Carers (mostly), For Doctors (mostly), For Nurses and Therapists (mostly), For Researchers (mostly), In the News, Integrated Care, King's Fund, National, NHS, NHS England, Quick Insights, Scotland, Standards, UK, Universal Interest
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Tagged Accident and Emergency Departments, Ageing Population, Artificial Inflation of A&E Performance Data (Allegation), BBC Bristol, BBC News Northampton, BBC Politics News, BBC Regional News: Hereford and Worcester, BBC Scotland, BBC Scotland News, Black Alerts, Chris Hopson: Chief Executive of NHS Providers, City of Coventry Walk In Centre, Community Pharmacists, Crisis Planning, Demand and Capacity, Demand Management, Demand Versus Capacity Gaps, Dr Taj Hassan: President of Royal College of Emergency Medicine, Ed Humpherson: Director General for Regulation at UK Statistics Authority (UKSA), Elective Waiting Times, Emergency Care, Emergency Departments, Emergency Planning and Resilience, Emergency System Resilience, Flu-Related Hospital Admissions, Former Health Secretary Jeremy Hunt, Former Prime Minster: Rt Hon Theresa May MP, Gaming Public Opinion, GPs Co-Located With A&E Department, Health Demand, Hospital Waiting Times, Medical Director of NHS England: Professor Sir Bruce Keogh, Mixed Sex Accommodation, Mixed‐Sex Accommodation, Mythology of the Times, National Emergency Pressures Panel (NEPP), National Emergency Pressures Panel (NHS England NEPP), National Emergency Pressures Panel (NHS England), NHS 70th Birthday, NHS England's National Emergency Pressures Panel, NHS England’s National Emergency Pressures Panel (NEPP), NHS Spending on Older People (Disproportionately High), NHS Sustainability, NHS Tracker Service (BBC's NHS Winter Project), NHS Winter Crisis, NHS Winter Pressures (aka Winter Crisis 2017-2018), NHS Winter Project (BBC News NHS Tracker Service), NHS Winter Tracker (BBC), Non-Emergency Waiting Times, Northampton General Hospital, Online Guidance From NHS Choices, Openness and Transparency, Patient Dignity, Patient Factors (Demand Side), Patient Safety, Population Winter Pressures, Preparations for Winter, Professor Sir Bruce Keogh, Professor Suzanne Mason: Royal College of Emergency Medicine, Proportion of Public Spending on Health, Quality and Sustainability, Rationing, Rationing of Surgery in the NHS, RCGP's 3 Before GP Mantra Awareness Campaign, Reducing Avoidable Demand, Reverse-Acting Hawthorne Effect (Speculative Construct), Right Care - First Time Campaign (Community Pharmacists), Royal College of General Practitioners (RCGP), Rt Hon Jeremy Hunt MP: Former Secretary of State for Health, Rt Hon Theresa May MP (Former Prime Minster), Self-Care, Self-Management, Shona Robison: Health Secretary for Scotland, Single Sex Accommodation, Spending on Front-Line Healthcare Versus Social Care, Sustainability, Thinking Like a Patient and Acting Like a Taxpayer, Three Before GP Mantra (RCGP), UK Statistics Authority, UK Statistics Authority (UKSA), University Hospitals Coventry and Warwickshire NHS Trust (A&E Performance), Urgent Care Centres, Winter Flu Outbreak: 2017/8, Winter Preparedness, Winter Pressures, Winter Pressures in General Practice
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Junior Doctors’ Dispute: One More Intractable Quandry for an Over-Burdened NHS (BBC News)
Summary When you can’t think anything pleasant or helpful to say, better to say nothing… Full Text Link Reference Junior doctors row: Hospitals prepare for week of strikes. London: BBC Health News, September 1st 2016. Further BBC News coverage: Full … Continue reading →
Posted in Acute Hospitals, BBC News, Department of Health, For Doctors (mostly), For Nurses and Therapists (mostly), In the News, National, NHS, NHS Alliance, NHS Employers, NHS England, Northern Ireland, Quick Insights, Scotland, Standards, UK, Universal Interest, Wales
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Tagged 7 Day Services, 72 Hour Limit on Maximum Working Week, Academy of Medical Royal Colleges, Academy of Medical Royal Colleges (AoMRC), Acute Care, Acute Hospital Care, Ageing Population, All-Out Strike, BBC Health News, BMA: British Medical Association, British Medical Association (BMA), Cancelled Hospital Appointments, Care in General Hospitals, Chris Hopson: Chief Executive of NHS Providers, Collective Self-Interest (Ahead of Patients), Concerns About Weekend Pay, Conflation of Political Protest Generalised Dissatisfaction and Industrial Action, Culture Change in the NHS, Cycle of Discontent, Cycle of Discontent: BMA Perhaps Unable to Compromise (Under Pressure From Members), Damage to Patient Trust, Damage to Popular Trust in the NHS, Diane Abbott: Labour Shadow Health Secretary, Disproportionality in Industrial Action, Dissatisfaction Over Pay, Doctors Feeling Undervalued and Overworked, Dr Ellen McCourt: Chair of JDC (BMA Junior Doctors Committee), Dr Mark Porter: Chair of Council at British Medical Association, Dr Peter Campbell: Acting Chairman of Junior Doctors' Committee, Erosion of Terms and Conditions of NHS Workforce (Union Perspective), Former Health Secretary Jeremy Hunt, Former Prime Minster: Rt Hon Theresa May MP, Gaming Public Opinion, General Medical Council (GMC), Government Cannot Be Held To Ransom, High Court (England), Improving Patient Safety, Inability to Back-Down Pragmatically (Pathological Inflexibility), Jeremy Corbyn (Labour Party Leader), Junior Doctors A&E Walkout: Reckless "Win At All Costs" Mentality, Junior Doctors Committee (JDC) of British Medical Association (BMA), Junior Doctors' Dispute: First Draft of History, Junior Doctors' Dispute: Timeline of the Dispute, Junior Doctors' Strike Risks Patient Safety (Jeremy Hunt), Junior Doctors’ Morale Wellbeing and Quality of Life, Justice for Health, Katherine Murphy: Chief Executive of the Patients Association, Kathy McLean: Executive Medical Director at NHS Improvement, Lose - Lose Stand-Off: Impasse Over Junior Doctors' Dispute, Low Morale, Mortality Associated With After Hours and Weekend Admissions, Mortality at the Weekend, Mythology of the Times, NHS Reform in England, NHS Services Seven Days a Week, Niall Dickson: Chief Executive of the General Medical Council, No Harm Culture, Opportunistic Conflation of Political Protest Generalised Dissatisfaction and BMA's Industrial Action, Orchestrated Intransigence, Patient Safety, Patient Safety Improvement, Patient Safety in the NHS, Payment Reform, Peer Pressure: Barrier to Objective Judgement, Perceived Erosion of Terms and Conditions for NHS Employees (Union Viewpoint), Perverse Incentives, Preventable Hospital Mortality, Professional Responsibilities, Professional Standards, Professor Terence Stephenson: Chair of the General Medical Council, Quality of Care at Weekends, Rt Hon Jeremy Hunt MP: Former Secretary of State for Health, Rt Hon Theresa May MP (Former Prime Minster), Safeguards on Excessive Working Hours, Saturday Premium Pay, Seven-Day Hospital Services, Seven-Day Working, Strike Over a Saturday Premium Pay (Self-Interest), 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), Variations in Quality of Care, Vested Interests, Weekend Effect, Weekend Hospitalisation and Additional Risk of Death, Weekend Mortality for Emergency Admissions, Weekend Working, When Brinkmanship Goes Over the Brink, Workforce Issues (Feeling Undervalued)
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Hotly Debated Weekend Effect May Have Been A Statistical Mirage? (Journal of Health Services Research and Policy / BBC News / Lancet / BMJ)
Summary Research does not take place in a socio-political vacuum. The ongoing junior doctors’ dispute has supplied fertile ground for allegations of “spin” and politically-motivated distortion in the interpretation of the so-called “weekend effect”, and raises questions concerning the planned … Continue reading →
Posted in Acute Hospitals, BBC News, Commissioning, For Doctors (mostly), For Nurses and Therapists (mostly), For Researchers (mostly), In the News, Integrated Care, National, NHS, Quick Insights, Standards, Statistics, UK, Universal Interest
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Tagged 7 Day Services, Academy of Medical Royal Colleges Patient Liaison Group, Access to Urgent and Emergency Care, Accident and Emergency (A&E) Departments, Accident and Emergency Admissions, Accident and Emergency Attendances, Acute Care, Acute Hospital Care, Administrative Coding Data, Ageing Population, Bandwagon Effect, BBC Health News, Birmingham (UK), BMJ, BMJ Open, BMJ Publishing Group Ltd, Care in General Hospitals, Clinical Effectiveness and Evaluation Unit, Coding Error, Costs and Benefits of Seven-Day Services for Emergency Hospital Admissions, Culture Change in the NHS, Day-of-the-Week Effect, Debunking UK Government Suggestion That Seven Day Working in Hospitals Could Save 6000 Lives Per Year, Department of Health Sciences: University of York, Department of Health Services Research and Policy: London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, Disentangling Synchronicity and Political Axe-Grinding, Division of Health and Population Sciences: University of Warwick, Division of Health and Social Care Research: King's College London, Elevated Weekend Hospital Mortality, Emergency Admissions, Emergency Hospital Admission (EHA), Emergency Hospital Treatment, Emergency Medicine, Emergency Medicine Journal, English Index of Multiple Deprivation (IMD), Erroneous or Simplistic Misinterpretations of the Weekend Effect, Evidence Versus Mythology, Exeter, Farr Institute of Health Informatics Research: University College London, Gaming Public Opinion, Health Services and Delivery Research Programme, Heart of England NHS Foundation Trust, High Intensity Specialist Led Acute Care (HiSLAC), High-Intensity Specialist-Led Acute Care (HiSLAC) Project, HiSLAC Collaborative, HiSLAC Project, Hospital Accident and Emergency Departments, Hospital Episode Statistics (HES), Hospital Mortality, Hospital Mortality Rates, Hospital Standardised Mortality Ratios (HSMRs), Improving Coding, Improving Patient Safety, Index of Multiple Deprivation 2010, Institute of Applied Health Research: University of Birmingham, Institute of Clinical Sciences: University of Birmingham, Journal of Health Services Research and Policy, Juggernaut Bandwagon of Research Publications Tending to Maximise Ministerial Discomfiture, Junior Doctors: Contract Dispute of 2015/16, Junior Doctors: Contract Dispute of 2016, Kings College London, Lancet, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, Manchester Academic Health Sciences Centre, Manchester Academic Health Sciences Centre: University of Manchester, Manchester Centre for Health Economics: University of Manchester, Manchester Study on Weekend Effect, Methodological Bias in Hospital Standardised Mortality Ratios (Allegation), Monday to Friday Culture, Mortality, Mortality Associated With After Hours and Weekend Admissions, Mortality at the Weekend, Mortality by Day of the Week, Mortality Rates, Mortality Statistics, Mythology of the Times, National Institute for Health Research (NIHR), NIHR Collaboration for Leadership in Applied Health Research and Care: West Midlands, Nuffield Department of Clinical Neurosciences: University of Oxford, Outcomes of Weekend Versus Weekday Admissions for Strokes, Overnight Effect, Oxford Vascular Study, Oxford Vascular Study (OXVASC), Patient Safety, Patient Safety Improvement, Preventable Hospital Mortality, Primary Care Alternatives to Emergency Hospital Admissions, Quality Improvement, Quality of Care, Quality of Care at Weekend, Queen Elizabeth Hospital Birmingham, RCP: Royal College of Physicians, Royal Brompton & Harefield NHS Foundation Trust, Royal Brompton and Harefield NHS Foundation Trust, Royal College of Physicians, Royal Devon and Exeter NHS Foundation Trust, School of Health and Related Research: University of Sheffield, Sentinel Stroke National Audit Programme (SSNAP), Seven Day NHS Pledge: Potential Problem of Missing the Point (Some Statisticians Now Claim Weekend Effect Does Not / Did Not Exist), Seven Day Working: Health Secretary’s Proposals, Seven-Day Hospital Services, Seven-Day Working, Southern Health NHS Foundation Trust, Specialist Led Acute Care, SSNAP: Sentinel Stroke National Audit Programme, St George's NHS Foundation Trust, Statistical Epiphenomena, Stroke Prevention Research Unit: John Radcliffe Hospital, Timing of Research Publications Which Maximise Ministerial Discomfiture (Inferred Partisanship Or Gaming), Unexpected Reversals in Medical Research: Potential Influence of Political Bias Or Partisanship, Unexpected Trends in Medical Research: Influence of Zeitgeist, University College London, University Department of Anaesthesia and Critical Care: University of Birmingham, University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust, University Hospitals Southampton NHS Foundation Trust, University of Birmingham, University of Leicester, University of Manchester, University of Oxford, University of Sheffield, University of Southampton, University of Warwick, University of York, Unspoken Political Context: Weaponising NHS Mortality Statistics, Urgent and Emergency Care, Uses and Misuses of Outcome Data in Acute Medical Care, Variations in Quality of Care, Warwick Medical School: University of Warwick, Weekend Effect, Weekend Hospitalisation and Additional Risk of Death, Weekend Mortality for Emergency Admissions, Weekend Specialist to Patient Ratio in Hospitals, Weekend Working, Zombie Statistics (Allegation)
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Strikes Over Junior Doctors’ Dispute: Failing Patients’ Interests? (BBC News / Telegraph / NHS England)
Summary Dame Sally Davies has suggested that industrial action by the British Medical Association (BMA) would not be in patients’ interest, and requested that coming strikes by junior doctors should be suspended to permit talks resume without duress. Last week, … Continue reading →
Posted in Acute Hospitals, BBC News, For Doctors (mostly), In the News, National, NHS, NHS England, Quick Insights, Standards, UK, Universal Interest
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Tagged 7 Day Services, 72 Hour Limit on Maximum Working Week, Academy of Medical Royal Colleges, ACAS: Advisory Conciliation and Arbitration Service (UK), Acute Care, Acute Hospital Care, Ageing Population, All-Out Strike, Andrew Foster: Wrightington, Anne Rainsberry: NHS England Director Overseeing Preparations Over Junior Doctors' Dispute Chaos, BBC Newsnight Poll on Junior Doctors' Strike, Ben Gummer: Health Minister, BMA Shambolic Mishandling and Calculated Misinformation (Hunt Allegation), BMA Totally Irresponsible (Hunt Allegation), Brendan Barber: Chair of Acas, Brexit Marginalises Junior Doctors Dispute (Speculation), British Social Attitudes Survey, Calculated Delay and Obstruction, Care in General Hospitals, Change Fatigue (Reforms), Chicanery, Chief Medical Officer: Professor Dame Sally Davies, Chris Hopson: Chief Executive of NHS Providers, Christina McAnea (Unison), Clare Panniker: Basildon and Thurrock University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, Collective Self-Interest (Ahead of Patients), Concerns About Career Progression, Concerns About Weekend Pay, Conflation of Political Protest Generalised Dissatisfaction and Industrial Action, Culture Change in the NHS, Cycle of Discontent, Cycle of Discontent: BMA Perhaps Unable to Compromise (Under Pressure From Members), Damage to Patient Trust, Damage to Popular Trust in the NHS, Daniel Mortimer: NHS Employers, Danny Mortimer: Chief Executive of NHS Employers, David Cameron, David Sloman: Royal Free London NHS Foundation Trust, Day-of-the-Week Effect, Dissatisfaction Over Pay, Doctors Feeling Undervalued and Overworked, Dr Ellen McCourt: Chair of JDC (BMA Junior Doctors Committee), Dr Johann Malawana: Former Chair of BMA Junior Doctors Committee, Dr Mark Porter, Dr Mark Porter: Chair of Council at British Medical Association, Erosion of Terms and Conditions of NHS Workforce (Union Perspective), Gaming Public Opinion, General Medical Council (GMC), Government Cannot Be Held To Ransom, Heather Tierney-Moore: Lancashire Care NHS Foundation Trust, Heidi Alexander: Former Labour Shadow Health Secretary, Improving Patient Safety, Inability to Back-Down Pragmatically (Pathological Inflexibility), Ipsos MORI Poll on Junior Doctors' Strike, James Scott: Royal United Hospitals Bath NHS Foundation Trust, JDC Executive, Jeremy Taylor (Chief Executive of National Voices), Joe Harrison: Milton Keynes NHS Foundation Trust, John Adler: University Hospitals of Leicester NHS Trust, Junior Doctors A&E Walkout: Reckless "Win At All Costs" Mentality, Junior Doctors Committee (JDC) of British Medical Association (BMA), Junior Doctors' All-Out Strike (Tuesday 26 and Wednesday 27 April 2016), Junior Doctors' Dispute: First Draft of History, Junior Doctors' Dispute: Timeline of the Dispute, Junior Doctors' Strike Risks Patient Safety (Jeremy Hunt), Junior Doctors: Contract Dispute of 2015, Junior Doctors’ Experiences, Junior Doctors’ High Levels of Discontent (Review), Junior Doctors’ Morale Wellbeing and Quality of Life, Just Health: NHS Staff Campaign Group, Katherine Murphy, Katherine Murphy: Chief Executive of the Patients Association, Lose - Lose Stand-Off: Impasse Over Junior Doctors' Dispute, Low Morale, Matthew Kershaw: East Kent Hospitals University NHS Foundation Trust, Medical Director of NHS England: Professor Sir Bruce Keogh, Miles Scott: St George’s University Hospitals NHS Trust, Misinformation: Conflation and Skewed Interpretations Behind Junior Doctors' Dispute, Monday to Friday Culture, Mortality, Mortality Associated With After Hours and Weekend Admissions, Mortality at the Weekend, Mythology of the Times, NatCen Social Research (NatCen), NHS Reform, NHS Reform in England, NHS Services Seven Days a Week, No Harm Culture, Opportunistic Conflation of Political Protest Generalised Dissatisfaction and BMA's Industrial Action, Orchestrated Intransigence, Patient Safety, Patient Safety Improvement, Patient Safety in the NHS, Payment Reform, Peer Pressure, Peer Pressure: Barrier to Objective Judgement, Perceived Erosion of Terms and Conditions for NHS Employees (Union Viewpoint), Perverse Incentives, Peter Homa: Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust, Peter Miller: Leicestershire Partnership NHS Trust, Political Myopia, Professional Responsibilities, Professional Standards, Professor Dame Sally Davies, Professor Dame Sue Bailey: Chair of Academy of Medical Royal Colleges, Professor Don Berwick, Public Dissatisfaction With the NHS, Quality of Care at Weekend, Reform, Resistance to Change, Rob Webster: NHS Confederation, Robert Woolley: University Hospitals Bristol NHS Foundation Trust, Safeguards on Excessive Working Hours, Sandwell and West Birmingham Hospitals NHS Trust, Sandwell Hospital, Saturday Premium Pay, Save Our NHS: We Had To Destroy the Village In Order To Save It (Classic Vietnam War Paraphrase), Seven-Day Hospital Services, Seven-Day Working, Sheena Cumiskey: Cheshire and Wirral Partnership NHS Foundation Trust, Simon Stevens: Chief Executive of NHS England, Sir Andrew Cash: Sheffield Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, Sir David Dalton: Chief Executive of Salford Royal NHS Foundation Trust, Sir David Dalton: Salford Royal NHS Foundation Trust, Sir Leonard Fenwick: The Newcastle Upon Tyne NHS Foundation Trust, Sir Robert Francis QC, Sonia Swart: Northampton General Hospital NHS Trust, Stephen Dunn: West Suffolk NHS Foundation Trust, Strike Over a Saturday Premium Pay (Self-Interest), Susan Acott: Dartford and Gravesham NHS Foundation Trust, 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), Urgent and Emergency Care, Variations in Quality of Care, Vested Interests, Weekend Effect, Weekend Hospitalisation and Additional Risk of Death, Weekend Mortality for Emergency Admissions, Weekend Working, Wigan and Leigh NHS Foundation Trust, Workforce Challenges in Emergency Medicine, Workforce Issues (Feeling Undervalued)
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