Consultations on NHS improvement:
PEOPLE in Kettering and Corby are to get their say next week on how the region’s health services can be improved. Evening Telegraph
Monday 19 March 2012
Northamptonshire rape crisis centre ‘struggling’ after funding cuts
Northamptonshire rape crisis centre ‘struggling’ after funding cuts:
THE COUNTY’S rape crisis centre is “struggling to cope” following drastic funding cuts coupled with an increasing number of sexual offences in Northamptonshire. Northampton Chronicle and Echo
THE COUNTY’S rape crisis centre is “struggling to cope” following drastic funding cuts coupled with an increasing number of sexual offences in Northamptonshire. Northampton Chronicle and Echo
Behind The Headlines: NHS’s future in the balance?
Behind The Headlines: NHS’s future in the balance?:
A MASSIVELY important debate will take place in Parliament next week and, no, we are not talking about Chancellor George Osborne’s Budget statement on Wednesday. Northampton Chronicle and Echo
A MASSIVELY important debate will take place in Parliament next week and, no, we are not talking about Chancellor George Osborne’s Budget statement on Wednesday. Northampton Chronicle and Echo
Can the NHS learn from Mary Queen of Shops?
Can the NHS learn from Mary Queen of Shops?: High street retailers train their staff in good customer service. Yet we seem to assume that NHS staff have treating people with dignity and respect, supporting them to understand their choices and involving them in decisions about their care and treatment engrained in their DNA, says Adrian Sieff. Health Foundation
Report highlights lack of support for carers
Report highlights lack of support for carers:
Committed to Carers highlights how carers can have drastically different
experiences of support and information, and how a lack of coordinated support
can cause health breakdowns for carers and unnecessary hospital admissions for
them and their loved ones, preventing people from dying in their place of
choice.
The report makes a number of recommendations on how carers can be identified and provided
with any support and information they may need. NHS Networks
Committed to Carers highlights how carers can have drastically different
experiences of support and information, and how a lack of coordinated support
can cause health breakdowns for carers and unnecessary hospital admissions for
them and their loved ones, preventing people from dying in their place of
choice.
The report makes a number of recommendations on how carers can be identified and provided
with any support and information they may need. NHS Networks
Doctors in coalition MP challenge
Doctors in coalition MP challenge: A group of doctors plans to put up candidates to stand against coalition MPs at the next election in protest at planned changes to the NHS in England. BBC News
VIDEO: Health care reforms scrutinised
VIDEO: Health care reforms scrutinised: Cumbria has been piloting the GP commissioning element of the government's controversial Health and Social Care Bill, and opinion is divided. BBC News
‘We have to stop meeting like this’: what works in health and local government partnerships?
‘We have to stop meeting like this’: what works in health and local government partnerships?:
This paper finds that previous attempts to create partnership structures have tended to focus too much on issues of process and structure. The authors argue that if the new Health and Wellbeing Boards are to avoid this trap they need to understand three key issues: the importance of values and culture; the limits of relying on large-scale structural changes; and the need to focus on outcomes for patients.
This paper finds that previous attempts to create partnership structures have tended to focus too much on issues of process and structure. The authors argue that if the new Health and Wellbeing Boards are to avoid this trap they need to understand three key issues: the importance of values and culture; the limits of relying on large-scale structural changes; and the need to focus on outcomes for patients.
Committed to carers: supporting carers of people at the end of life
Committed to carers: supporting carers of people at the end of life:
This report draws on the direct experiences of carers looking after someone at the end of life and Marie Curie’s expertise of caring for patients and their carers at this time. It shows how carers can have drastically different experiences of support and information. It also points to a lack of coordinated support for carers, which causes health breakdowns for carers and unnecessary and costly hospital admissions for them and their loved ones at end of life, preventing people from dying in their place of choice.
This report draws on the direct experiences of carers looking after someone at the end of life and Marie Curie’s expertise of caring for patients and their carers at this time. It shows how carers can have drastically different experiences of support and information. It also points to a lack of coordinated support for carers, which causes health breakdowns for carers and unnecessary and costly hospital admissions for them and their loved ones at end of life, preventing people from dying in their place of choice.
Guidance on the time limits applicable from April 2012 for requests on review of eligibility decisions for NHS continuing healthcare funding
Guidance on the time limits applicable from April 2012 for requests on review of eligibility decisions for NHS continuing healthcare funding:
This guidance covers the time limits starting from 1st April 2012 for individuals or their families and representatives to request a review of an eligibility decision for NHS continuing healthcare funding by the local PCT or responsible NHS body at a local level. These limits will only apply to eligibility decisions notified after 1st April 2012 and not before.
This guidance covers the time limits starting from 1st April 2012 for individuals or their families and representatives to request a review of an eligibility decision for NHS continuing healthcare funding by the local PCT or responsible NHS body at a local level. These limits will only apply to eligibility decisions notified after 1st April 2012 and not before.
Criticism as parking fees at NHS hospitals increase
Criticism as parking fees at NHS hospitals increase: New figures have revealed that car parking charges for patients and visitors have risen at more than a quarter of hospital trusts in England over the last year.
Data from 197 hospital and mental health trusts revealed in some cases that charges have more than doubled.
There have been reductions too but the Patients Association branded the charges in England as a “tax on the sick” while parking remai... Healthcare Today
Data from 197 hospital and mental health trusts revealed in some cases that charges have more than doubled.
There have been reductions too but the Patients Association branded the charges in England as a “tax on the sick” while parking remai... Healthcare Today
Deafness And Mental Health - More Specialist Services Required - Medical News Today
Deafness And Mental Health - More Specialist Services Required - Medical News Today:
Deafness And Mental Health - More Specialist Services Required Medical News Today A study in this week's Lancet by Dr Johannes Fellinger and his team in Austria, demonstrates that deaf people are twice as likely to suffer from mental health problems, compared with the general population. The study also reveals disparities in terms ... Mental health needs of deaf people neglected, review showsOnMedica all 13 news articles » |
Hospitals should operate seven days a week: NHS top doctor
Hospitals should operate seven days a week: NHS top doctor: The most senior doctor in the NHS is demanding that hospitals have a full compliment of doctors at weekends to make the health service more convenient to access as "people get sick seven days a week".
The Daily Telegraph
The Daily Telegraph
NHS pays £20,000 a week for a doctor
NHS pays £20,000 a week for a doctor: Doctors are being hired at rates of up to £20,000 a week by hospitals to cover NHS staff shortages caused by European rules.
The Daily Telegraph
The Daily Telegraph
Physicians reject health Bill – but will work with it
Physicians reject health Bill – but will work with it:
The first – and, so far, only – properly conducted survey of grass roots medical opinion on the Health and Social Care Bill has revealed that doctors are deeply divided about whether to oppose or work with the Government on NHS reform. The Independent
The first – and, so far, only – properly conducted survey of grass roots medical opinion on the Health and Social Care Bill has revealed that doctors are deeply divided about whether to oppose or work with the Government on NHS reform. The Independent
NHS must ban 'dangerous' homoeopathy
NHS must ban 'dangerous' homoeopathy:
Britain's foremost professor of complementary medicine today launches a withering attack on the provision of homoeopathy on the NHS. The Independent
Britain's foremost professor of complementary medicine today launches a withering attack on the provision of homoeopathy on the NHS. The Independent
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