Friday 1 July 2016

Support group for pregnant women and new parents shortlisted for two awards

Support group for pregnant women and new parents shortlisted for two awards

An antenatal group for women and partners who need extra support with their experience of pregnancy and childbirth has been shortlisted for two national awards. The Chit Chat group was established by Northampton General Hospital's midwives as a way of tailoring antenatal education, parenting advice and peer support to women with additional needs, including learning disabilities or anxiety.
NGH News

Contracting for new care models

Contracting for new care models

Creative use of the contracting process is a critical factor in making new care models happen. Without bold, robust contracting the theoretical benefits of more efficient, better integrated and higher quality care systems will not be realised.
NHS Networking

Children and young people's mental health policy, services, funding and education

Children and young people's mental health policy, services, funding and education

This parliamentary briefing provides an overview of mental health service provision for children and young people in England.
NHS Networking

NHS England to act on review of children’s heart surgery

NHS England to act on review of children’s heart surgery

NHS England has responded to the independent review into children’s heart surgery at Bristol Royal Hospital for Children and pledged to take action to ensure a consistent level of care is available for every patient in every part of the country.
NHS Networking

Applications open for nursing associate role test sites

Applications open for nursing associate role test sites

Health Education England is inviting applications from health care settings interested in becoming test sites for the new nursing associate role.
Latest NHS Employers

Supporting integration through new roles and working across boundaries

Supporting integration through new roles and working across boundaries

This report looks at the evidence on new roles and ways of spanning organisational workforce boundaries to deliver integrated health and social care. Commissioned by NHS Employers and the Local Government Association, it finds increasing focus on roles which facilitate co-ordination and management of care, development of existing roles to increase the skill-mix and enable the provision of more holistic care, and a limited number of truly innovative roles, the most notable being care navigators and community facilitators, enablers or link workers. Given that many of the skills required for integrated care already exist within the workforce, it suggests the central question is how to use those skills more effectively to support boundary-spanning activities.

The King's Fund

Report

British Social Attitudes survey 33

British Social Attitudes survey 33

This British Social Attitudes report aims to uncover the consequences of seven years of austerity for social and political attitudes in Britain. The chapter on the NHS explores levels of dissatisfaction with the NHS and how this has changed over time and in relation to trends in NHS funding. It examines new data identifying the reasons for NHS dissatisfaction and satisfaction.

Can qualitative research improve patient care?

Can qualitative research improve patient care?

Allied Health Professional and qualitative researcher Fran Toye looks at how qualitative research can allow hidden voices to emerge and improve patient care.
Evidently Cochrane

More than a million alcohol-related hospital admissions in 2014-15

More than a million alcohol-related hospital admissions in 2014-15


There were an estimated 1.09 million hospital admissions2 3 for which an alcohol-related disease, injury or condition was the primary reason for admission or a secondary diagnosis, in 2014-15, compared to 1.06 million in 2013-14.

The figures, released today by the Health and Social Care Information Centre1, also show that men account for the majority of these admissions (65 per cent) compared to women (35 per cent).

There has been a rise in the number of drugs prescribed4 for the treatment of alcohol dependence. The number of prescription items dispensed in England in 2015 was 196,000which is nearly double the number ten years ago, when it was 109,000. The total Net Ingredient Cost (NIC) for items prescribed for alcohol dependence in 2015 was £3.93 million - more than double the level ten years ago when it was £1.52 million.
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