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Quick Animation on How the NHS in England Works (King’s Fund / CreativeConnection)

Posted on October 20, 2017 by Dementia and Elderly Care News

Summary The King’s Fund has produced an animated video, and a brief accompanying slide-set, which provide a quick overview of how the NHS “works”, in terms of evolving structure and the functional inter-relationships between the many component parts. Full Text Link Reference Mantell, K. … Continue reading →

Seven Day Hospital Pharmacy Services (NHS England / BBC News)

Posted on September 12, 2016 by Dementia and Elderly Care News

Summary NHS England’s “Transformation of Seven Day Clinical Pharmacy Services in Acute Hospitals” report explains how seven-day clinical pharmacy services can benefit patients. Seven-day hospital pharmacy services might also help improve hospital efficiency, in the context of ten Seven Day … Continue reading →

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Junior Doctors’ Dispute: One More Intractable Quandry for an Over-Burdened NHS (BBC News)

Posted on September 1, 2016 by Dementia and Elderly Care 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 | 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, 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, Prime Minster: Rt Hon Theresa May MP, 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 (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) | Leave a comment

Challenges in the Creation of a Seven-Day NHS: Leaked Update (BBC News)

Posted on August 23, 2016 by Dementia and Elderly Care 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 →

Murky Evidence? Murkier Politics (BBC News)

Posted on February 25, 2016 by Dementia and Elderly Care News

Summary Trust no-one. Believe nothing. Use your own judgement. Back to renaissance values? Full Text Link Reference Bloch, S. (2016). Hunt ‘misrepresented’ data on 7-day NHS. London: BBC Health News, February 24th 2016.

Posted in BBC News, Commissioning, Department of Health, For Doctors (mostly), For Nurses and Therapists (mostly), For Researchers (mostly), In the News, Integrated Care, Management of Condition, National, NHS, NHS England, Quick Insights, Standards, Statistics, UK, Universal Interest | Tagged Acute Care, Acute Hospital Care, Ageing Population, BBC Health News, BMA Shambolic Mishandling and Calculated Misinformation (Political Rebound to Earlier Hunt Allegations), British Medical Journal (BMJ), Care in General Hospitals, Culture Change in the NHS, Day-of-the-Week Effect, Deborah Williams: NHS England's Seven Day Services Forum Project Manager, Elevated Weekend Hospital Mortality, Emergency Admissions, Emergency Hospital Treatment, FOI: Freedom of information, Former Health Secretary Jeremy Hunt, Heidi Alexander: Former Labour Shadow Health Secretary, Hospital Mortality, Hospital Mortality Rates, Jeremy Corbyn (Labour Party Leader), Junior Doctors: Contract Dispute of 2016, Junior Doctors’ Morale Wellbeing and Quality of Life, Medical Director of NHS England: Professor Sir Bruce Keogh, Medical Directorate: NHS England, Misinformation, 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, Mortality by Day of the Week, Mortality Rates, Mortality Statistics, Mythology of the Times, NHS England’s Seven Days a Week Forum, NHS Services: Seven Days a Week Forum, NHS Seven Days a Week Forum, Orchestrated Intransigence, Patient Safety, Patient Safety Improvement, Potted Weekend Effect Synopsis (Department of Health), Preventable Hospital Mortality, Professor Sir Bruce Keogh, Quality Improvement, Quality of Care, Quality of Care at Weekend, Reform, Resistance to Change, Rt Hon Jeremy Hunt MP: Former Secretary of State for Health, Seven Day Services Forum, Seven-Day Hospital Services, Seven-Day Working, Stuff Their Mouths With Gold (History of How Aneurin Bevan Placated the BMA), System Re-Design, Thinking Like a Patient and Acting Like a Taxpayer, UK Statistics Authority, Unspoken Political Context: Weaponising the NHS (Speculative Construct), Variations in Quality of Care, Weekend Effect, Weekend Hospitalisation and Additional Risk of Death, Weekend Mortality for Emergency Admissions, Weekend Working | Leave a comment

Strikes Over Junior Doctors’ Dispute: Failing Patients’ Interests? (BBC News / Telegraph / NHS England)

Posted on January 11, 2016 by Dementia and Elderly Care News

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 →

Further Steps in the Urgent Care Review (NHS England)

Posted on July 26, 2015 by Dementia and Elderly Care News

Summary Eight Urgent and Emergency Care Vanguards are to explore changes in approaches to integrated care, whereby organisations work together better to provide care in a more joined up manner to benefit patients. Urgent care will be delivered not in … Continue reading →

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