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15/04/2024
The NHS must rethink the role of Occupational Therapists
Like many professions, occupational therapy is struggling with recruitment and retention. We’ve become inured to the headlines declaring a health and social care crisis, but the mismatch between changing demographic needs and the numbers of health and social care staff required to meet them makes this a crisis that cannot be ignored.
23/01/2024
NHS leaders must be honest about the service’s poor performance
When the monthly dump of NHS performance statistics are published and NHS England responds, I sometimes completely lose my shit. It happened to me again on 11 January when Stephen Powis appeared on Radio 4’s World at One (Listen here: the story starts about 29m:40s in).
09/01/2024
NHSE claims 20% cut in long waiters before latest strikes
NHSE admits provisional data could have “significant issues regarding the quality” but says it is confident it is robust enough to forecast direction of travel of trends
09/01/2024
Focus on productivity in 2024, NHSE tells boards
In lieu of issuing the guidance — which normally sets out detail of the service’s priorities and targets for the coming financial year — NHS England has issued a letter calling for a ”focus on recovering our core service delivery and productivity”, and saying boards will need to use a new set of national productivity metrics.
08/01/2024
The 'two minute' NHSE director and other stories from 2024
Departing ICB chief executive a ‘hard act to follow’ Expect to see one of these roughly every week. The departure will almost certainly be for “personal reasons”, a reminder to prurient journalists that it would be in poor taste to ask about the £200m deficit, collapsing local services or persistent rumours of bullying/corruption/incompetence that dogged the chief executive’s tenure.
05/01/2024
More patients ‘now dying in A&E’ finds trust review
Shrewsbury and Telford A&E deaths investigated Emergency care waits “contributing factors” to increased mortality Meanwhile, Royal Cornwall announces it will review its ED deaths
05/01/2024
A&E target set to be raised, despite NHS missing lower bar
NHS England and government are set to raise their target for four-hour A&E performance, despite most hospitals failing to meet the current ask.
02/01/2024
Let’s start the new year with a positive message about what the NHS can improve.
I’m normally the one to say pessimistic things about NHS performance so I thought I could start the new year by talking about a positive story showing how innovative thinking could improve something. The positive story was told in The Times in December . The headline read “London hospital cuts waiting lists with innovative system”. And this sure sounds like a positive story that big improvements are possible. Woot!
11/12/2023
Ditch normal procedures to avoid A&E handover delays, trusts told
Regulators have warned hospital leaders they may have to ‘depart from established procedures’ over winter to minimise ambulance handover delays.
19/12/2023
NHSE crackdown on 10-hour ambulance delays
NHS England has launched a new crackdown on trusts it says have a ‘management strategy’ to hold patients in the back of ambulances to cope with emergency pressures inside their hospitals.
19/12/2023
Be ‘more directive’, providers tell NHSE
Community trust CEO Siobhan Melia says urgent community response must be “signalled as an investment priority” Otherwise, ICBs will not expand UCR understretched finances UCR activity very variable between NHS regions
18/12/2023
Community services need new national funding bid, says outgoing NHS England director
Adrian Hayter – who joined NHS England in 2019 – is now stepping down NHSE community programmes have expanded, with virtual wards, enhanced health in care homes, urgent community responses, and proactive care But a major government funding settlement, and workforce development, will be needed for community services
18/12/2023
56% of staff leave ‘relentless’ jobs within a year
“Lack of resilience” highlighted in report on control room staff departures Survey found only two fifths felt efforts rewarded Report likely to echo national issues over retaining control room staff
18/12/2023
Core bed numbers fall in seven systems, despite NHSE plan
The number of ‘core’ acute beds has fallen in seven health systems since the summer, according to official sitrep data. A further four integrated care systems have only reported a handful of extra beds.
11/01/2021
The EU Settlement Scheme Explained
If you are an EU citizen and are living and working in the UK you need to apply for the EU settlement scheme.
17/12/2019
NHS Top Priority Says Johnson
With the Conservative Party winning a massive majority in the 2019 General Election, now is the time for the country to get down to business. While a lot of people are looking forward to Brexit finally happening, many people are questioning what impact the election will have on the NHS.
11/12/2019
A pilot study analysing the effect of whole genome sequencing in healthcare
In the U.K, to understand the feasibility and psychological acceptability of genetic screening in a primary care setting, including how it changes clinician’s management decision, a pilot study is done.