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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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NHS England Publishes Official Mazars Report into Southern Health NHSFT (BBC News / Mazars / NHS England / NHS Improvement / CQC)
Summary NHS England has released the independent report by Mazars (an early copy of which was leaked a week before) concerning the deaths of people with learning disabilities or mental health problems at Southern Health NHS Foundation Trust. “The report … Continue reading
Posted in Acute Hospitals, BBC News, Commissioning, CQC: Care Quality Commission, 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, Management of Condition, Mental Health, National, NHS, NHS England, NHS Improvement, Patient Care Pathway, Person-Centred Care, Quick Insights, Standards, Statistics, Universal Interest
Tagged Avoidable Premature Mortality, BBC Health News, BBC Panorama, Buckinghamshire, Care for Vulnerable Older People, Care of Vulnerable Adults, Care Quality Commission (CQC), Clinical Commissioning Groups (CCGs), Connor Sparrowhawk, Critical Incidents, Disability Mortality Review Programme, Discrimination, Dorset, FOI: Freedom of information, Freedom of Information, Guardian, Hampshire, Health Inequalities, Health Inequalities and Premature Mortality for People With Learning Disabilities, Health Inequalities in England, Hospital Episode Statistics Linked to Mental Health Minimum Data Set, Inquest (Charity), Jim Mackey: Chief Executive of NHS Improvement, Katrina Percy: Chief Executive of Southern Health NHSFT, Learning, Learning Disabilities, Learning Disabilities: Data and Information, Learning Disabilities: Improving Health Outcomes, Learning Disabilities: Monitoring Service Quality, Learning Disabilities: NHS England Initiatives, Learning Disabilities: Regulation and Inspection, Learning Disability (LD) Transforming Care Programme, Liberal Democrats, Mazars, Mazars Report into Southern Health NHSFT, Mental Health and Learning Disabilities Data Set (MHLDMDS), Mental Health Minimum Data Set (MHMDS), Mental Health Trusts, Monitor, National Learning Disabilities Mortality Review Programme, National Learning Disability Mortality Review Programme, National Reporting and Learning System (NRLS), NHS England South, Openness, Openness and Transparency, Oxfordshire, Panorama (BBC TV), Parity of Esteem, Patient Safety and Advancing Change Teams (From NHS England), People With Learning Disabilities, Prejudice, Premature Mortality, Protecting Vulnerable People, Quality Improvement, Reducing Health Inequalities, Reducing Premature Mortality, Serious Incidents Requiring Investigation (SIRIs), SIRI: Serious Incident Requiring Investigation, Southern Health NHS Foundation Trust, St rategic Executive Information System ( StEIS ), Transforming Care for People with Learning Disabilities, Transforming Care for People with Learning Disabilities Programme, Transparency, Transparency and Public Trust, Unexpected Deaths in Hospital, Unexpected Deaths in Mental Health Trusts, University of Bristol, Vulnerable Groups, Vulnerable Older People, Wiltshire, Working With Families
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UK Stroke and Dementia Research: Under-Funding Persists (BMJ Open / Guardian)
Summary The levels of research funding upon cancer, coronary heart disease (CHD), dementia and stroke were compared, in relation to burden of each of these diseases in terms of their prevalence, disability adjusted life years and economic burden. This analysis … Continue reading
Posted in Commissioning, For Researchers (mostly), In the News, National, NIHR, Parkinson's Disease, Statistics, Stroke, UK, Universal Interest
Tagged BMJ Open, Burden of Dementia, Burden of Disease, Cancer, Cognitive Function and Ageing Study, Coronary Heart Disease (CHD), Dementia Disability Adjusted Life Years, Dementia Research, Disability Adjusted Life Years (DALY), European Community Concerted Action on the Epidemiology and Prevention of Dementia (EURODEM), General Register Office for Scotland, Guardian, Health Economics Research Centre: University of Oxford, Mortality Statistics, National Institute for Health Research (NIHR), National Statistics, Northern Ireland Statistics & Research Agency, Nuffield Department of Population Health: University of Oxford, Office for National Statistics, Office for National Statistics (ONS), Resource Allocation to Brain Research in Europe (RABRE), Stroke and Dementia Research Under-Funding, Stroke Disease Disability Adjusted Life Years, UK Clinical Research Collaboration, UK Health Research Analysis, UK Health Research Funding, UK Medical Research Spending (2008 and 2012), UK Stroke and Dementia Research, Underfunding of Stroke Research, University of Oxford
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NHS Model(s) of Care Essential for Ageing Population (NHS England / Guardian)
Summary Professor Sir Bruce Keogh, NHS England’s National Medical Director, has written about the NHS needing a revised model of care to meet rising demands for treatment from an ageing population. The existing model of delivery and service, involving an … Continue reading
Posted in Acute Hospitals, Commissioning, Community Care, For Carers (mostly), For Doctors (mostly), For Nurses and Therapists (mostly), For Researchers (mostly), For Social Workers (mostly), In the News, Integrated Care, Management of Condition, Mental Health, Models of Dementia Care, National, NHS, NHS England, Patient Care Pathway, Person-Centred Care, Quick Insights, Standards, UK, Universal Interest
Tagged A&E Four-Hour Wait Standard, Accident & Emergency, Accident and Emergency Departments, Acute Care, Acute Hospital Care, Affordability, Affordability of Care, Ageing, Ageing and Society, Ageing Population, Ageing Society, Avoidable Admissions, Avoidable Rehospitalisations, Care in Appropriate Settings, Care Integration, Challenges of Reconfiguration, Community-Based Care, Community-Based Services, Community-Based Support, Complex Care, Complex Chronic Conditions, Complex Needs, Configuration of Services, Constrained Funding, Cost Pressures in Hospitals, Cost Savings, Demographic Change and Public Services, Demographic Changes, Demographic Time-Bomb, Economic Sustainability, Emergency and Urgent Care Services, Emergency Bed Use, Emergency Care, Emergency Departments, Emergency Services, Enhanced Services from GPs, Factors Behind Increasing Emergency Admissions, Financial Constraints, Financial Context, Financial Difficulties, Financial Performance, Financial Planning, Financial Position of NHS Trusts, Financial Pressure in the NHS, Financial Pressures, Financial Resilience, Financial Sustainability in the NHS, Financing of Health Care, Five Year Forward View (NHS England), Frail Older People With Complex Needs, Funding Challenges, Funding Deficits, Funding of Care and Support, General Hospitals, GP Surgeries, Gridlock (Under-Capacity) in A&E Departments / Hospitals, Guardian, Health and Social Care, Health and Social Care Configuration, Health and Social Care Integration, Hospital Reconfiguration, Integrated and Community-Based Care, Integration of Health and Social Care, Medical Director of NHS England: Professor Sir Bruce Keogh, NHS England Five Year Forward View, NHS England's Five Year Forward View (2014), NHS Financial Leadership, NHS Funding, NHS Funding Gap, NHS Service Reconfiguration, NHS Spending, NHS Timebomb [sic], Out of Hours Services, Professor Sir Bruce Keogh, Reconfiguration of Emergency Care System, Sustainability, Sustainable Care, Sustainable Health and Care Services, The Current NHS Model is Outdated, Thinking Like a Patient and Acting Like a Taxpayer, Unnecessary Hospital Admissions, Unplanned Hospital Admissions, Unscheduled Admissions, Upward Spending Pressures, Urgent and Emergency Care, Urgent and Emergency Services, Urgent Care Services Outside of Hospitals, Waiting Time Targets in the NHS in England, Winter Pressure Funding, Winter Pressures
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NHS Funding Shortage Forecast: Debate Proposed (BBC News / Times / House of Commons Health Select Committee / Nuffield Trust / Independent)
Summary Nine influential signatories to a letter published in the Times have asked for a national debate on how the NHS in England is funded. The authors of this letter assert that challenges from an ageing and growing population, plus … Continue reading
Posted in Acute Hospitals, Alzheimer's Society, BBC News, Charitable Bodies, Community Care, For Doctors (mostly), For Nurses and Therapists (mostly), For Researchers (mostly), In the News, National, NHS, NHS England, Nuffield Trust, Quick Insights, RCN, Royal College of Physicians, Standards, UK, Universal Interest
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More or Less Programme, One-Week Target for All Urgent Diagnostic Tests Waiting Times, Outsourcing, Over-Reliance on Agency Staff, Parity of Esteem, Payday Loans Attitude to Workforce Planning, Peninsula Treatment Centre (Care UK), Peter Carter: Royal College of Nursing, Peter Roderick: Queen Mary University of London, Plymouth Hospitals NHS Trust, Policy, Policy Context, Policy Development, Policy Innovation, Political Posturing, Population Change, Private Finance Initiative (PFI) Schemes, Private Finance Initiative Payments, Private Profits Cap (Labour Proposal), Private Sector Providers, Privatisation (Backdoor), Privatisation (Debate), Proactive Care Programme, Professor Caroline MacEwen: President of Royal College of Ophthalmologists, Professor Jane Dacre: President of Royal College of Physicians, Public Accounts Committee, Public Accounts Committee (PAC), Public Attitudes and Expectations, Purchaser-Provider Split in the NHS, Redesigning Care Pathways, Redesigning Services, Reducing Drains on the NHS, Reducing Waste in the NHS, Rising Expectations, Royal College of General Practitioners (RCGP), Royal College of Nursing (RCN), Rt Hon. 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