Friday 14 June 2013
Video reveals domestic care neglect
Video reveals domestic care neglect: The BBC obtains footage showing multiple failings in an elderly woman's care, as ministers warn the next abuse scandal may come in the home care sector. BBC News
Name surgeons who refuse data - Hunt
Name surgeons who refuse data - Hunt: Surgeons who refuse to publish their performance data should be publicly named, the health secretary says. BBC News
See also:
See also:
- Hunt: doctors who refuse to publish patient data will be named and shamed The Daily Telegraph
- NHS surgeons opting out of performance tables to be named The Guardian
Breast cancer risk up for UK Asians
Breast cancer risk up for UK Asians: The breast cancer risk for British Asian women has increased, a study carried out in Leicester has suggested. BBC News
'Never full' practices key to A&E crisis, says top GP
'Never full' practices key to A&E crisis, says top GP: Practices should be prepared never to turn patients away during core hours, to help solve the urgent care crisis, a GP commissioning leader has said. GP Online
Elderly care system ''incentivises neglect''
Elderly care system ''incentivises neglect'': Home care involves low wages and neglect and little regard for the people it is supposed to be looking after. Public Service
Better access to primary care curbs emergency care visits
Better access to primary care curbs emergency care visits:
| Study puts GPs back in the frame for A&E pressures Related items from OnMedica GPs cannot take stress off overworked A&E departments, RCGP tells MPs Shake-up needed of urgent care CQC head warns that A&E demand is ‘unsustainable’ Hunt wants GPs to ‘take back OOH responsibility’ Traditional GP role widens from ‘helping’ to ‘business’ model |
Green book
Green book: This is the latest version of Immunisation against infectious disease (the Green Book), with all the updated chapters in one document.
Healthcare fraud in the new NHS market: a threat to patient care
Healthcare fraud in the new NHS market: a threat to patient care: This report sets out the potential risks posed to patient care as a result of a marketised NHS. It identifies the prospects for fraud in the NHS as a result of the increased use of private providers to deliver NHS services, and analyses the government’s current approach to counter fraud policy. It compares the possibilities this could bring about with the situation in the United States, and proposes a number of policy responses for dealing with an increase in fraud in the NHS.
Nursing and midwifery workforce reports
Nursing and midwifery reports:This series includes reports on the future shape of the nursing and midwifery workforces up to 2016, and horizon scanning reports looking ahead 20 years. They provide a range of possible scenarios which need to be considered alongside Health Education England local education and training board (LETB) investment plans and other emerging evidence to refine the assumptions and produce a clearer picture of likely future supply and demand.
Childhood obesity-related hospital visits quadruple
Childhood obesity-related hospital visits quadruple: 'Generation XXL' is the headline on the front page of the Metro, as the results of a new study show that hospital admissions related to obesity in children have soared in recent years.
Children's heart surgery review shatters confidence in NHS reconfiguration
Children's heart surgery review shatters confidence in NHS reconfiguration: Jeremy Hunt, the health secretary, hears of a failure to recommend a safe, sustainable and accessible way forward.
The Independent Reconfiguration Panel's demolition of proposals for reconfiguring children's heart services has set the benchmark for all future service reviews.
The panel told the health secretary, Jeremy Hunt, that the review of children's heart services had failed in its objective of recommending a safe, sustainable and accessible way forward.
The Independent Reconfiguration Panel's demolition of proposals for reconfiguring children's heart services has set the benchmark for all future service reviews.
The panel told the health secretary, Jeremy Hunt, that the review of children's heart services had failed in its objective of recommending a safe, sustainable and accessible way forward.
GPs will be rated for their 'compassion'
GPs will be rated for their 'compassion': Family doctors will be measured and rated depending on their compassion and "values," the health watchdog has said.
The Daily Telegraph
The Daily TelegraphNHS ‘discriminates’ against liver patients
NHS ‘discriminates’ against liver patients: Liver disease, the only major illness with an increasing death rate, is claiming a rising number of victims because of discrimination in the NHS against sufferers, a report has found. The Independent
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