The NHS has admitted that patient confidentiality could be undermined by the new healthcare records database. Photograph: Phil Mccarten/Reuters
Our live website is on hold this week, so here’s a summary of what’s been occurring across the healthcare sector this week.
The ongoing care.data saga continued to hit the headlines. The Telegraph reported that the NHS’s very own danger evaluation warned patient confidentiality could be undermined by the new healthcare data database. The database could be vulnerable to hackers or could be utilised to determine patients “maliciously”.
Nick Triggle, the BBC’s health correspondant, wrote a piece asking how care.data could go so incorrect? He wrote:
The idea with Care.information is to expand this database to incorporate what transpires to individuals when they are underneath the care of GPs.
The belief is this could support researchers create new remedies and improve the monitoring of overall performance.
But most would argue none of this was communicated by NHS England.
And the Telegraph ran an editorial about data issues in the NHS.
The sheer size of the undertaking, even so, has provided numerous pause for imagined – not least due to the state’s longstanding inability to keep the data that it collects safe, from the reduction of 25 million child benefit information in 2007 through to a catalogue of smaller sized-scale incidents. This is especially worrying since the scheme’s ensures of anonymity have proved inadequate for critics, who have argued (convincingly) that it will still be reasonably simple for customers of the database to recognize person patients.
Meanwhile, in response to the news last week that former Marks & Spencer chief executive Sir Stuart Rose is to advise well being secretary Jeremy Hunt on how to develop up a new generation of managers to transform failing hospitals, Chris Ham, chief executive of the King’s Fund, wrote about what the NHS can learn from the department keep. He lists three insights he acquired from going to Marks & Spencer 25 many years ago and explains how they are even now pertinent to the NHS these days.
The Guardian, meanwhile, exposed that a King’s Fund report stated that GP practices need to commence doing work together in federations and delivering far a lot more solutions in a restructuring of healthcare that is vital to hold the NHS sustainable. In one more blogpost for the King’s Fund, Ham wrote about producing general practice match for the long term. He concludes:
The registered checklist of sufferers means that practices are uniquely properly positioned to take the lead in establishing revolutionary versions of care underneath the proposed approach. But if they are unable or unwilling to do so, then NHS trusts offering neighborhood providers and acute companies should be offered the chance of taking the lead, preferably in partnership with practices. At a time when the want for innovation in the NHS has never ever been higher, encouraging a range of approaches to be examined and evaluated has apparent points of interest, not least in unfreezing techniques of doing work that appear increasingly anachronistic.
The Guardian also ran a story saying that a funding adjust could force rural GP practices to near. Massive areas of rural England could be left with no any GP services for local residents as a consequence of cuts in national funding.
Journalist Mary O’Hara wrote a piece for Comment is cost-free explaining why we require the online presence of MentalHealthCop whose Twitter account and award-winning weblog was suspended by West Midlands police. She explained that psychological sickness and policing is an very sensitive location, and social media can play a constructive part.
The Telegraph unveiled that physicians are becoming paid as considerably as £3,000 per shift by NHS hospitals to fill “endemic” personnel shortages in Accident & Emergency units. In an editorial, the paper wrote that higher wages for locum medical doctors and bad determination-making in hospitals could be costing lives.
The good news is that there is a expanding push for transparency in the NHS. For instance, the Government is working to release league tables of performance that ought to not only highlight failures, but also motivate study of ideal practice. The health services wants to search at itself truthfully and rigorously. It can not continue to fall back on comforting myths about it being “the envy of the planet”. Failure to get issues appropriate – to keep adequate amounts of staffing and to control that personnel nicely – can be a matter of life and death.
Here is a quick run by way of some of the leading stories from elsewhere this week:
• BBC: Romanian medical professionals tempted abroad by a far better lifestyle
• BBC: Ambulance ‘postcode lottery could price two,500 lives a year’
• The Guardian: Use of police cells in the course of psychological health crises to be halved
• The Telegraph: Bristol Children’s Hospital ‘still in denial’ about deaths, say parents
• HSJ (subscription): Employers chief moots end to spend restraint
• HSJ: Three groups set to join in initial CCG merger
And right here are the best five stories on the network:
• ‘More sources to the frontline’ slogan damages the NHS
• Struggle to recruit managers will include to cycle of failure in the NHS
• Could bedside TVs be utilised to give patients access to medical records?
• Could stroppy sufferers be the dynamo behind the future NHS?
• Potential of the health service: the era of neighborhood care has arrived
This week in healthcare: Monday 17 - Friday 21 February
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