Right now in healthcare: Thursday 27 February

Good morning and welcome to the day-to-day blog from the Guardian’s neighborhood for healthcare professionals, giving a roundup of the essential information stories across the sector.

If there’s a story, report or event you’d like to highlight – or you would like to share your thoughts on any of the healthcare problems in the news right now – you can get in touch by leaving a comment under the line or tweeting us at @GdnHealthcare.

Health reporter Denis Campbell writes for the Guardian that mothers and fathers ‘spend hundreds of lbs a week’ to go to babies in neonatal care.

And, following on from Jeremy Hunt’s announcement yesterday, the Telegraph reports that Mid Staffordshire hospital trust, in which up to one,200 a lot more individuals died than would be anticipated, is to be dissolved.

Other healthcare stories:

• BBC: Will eldercare be as frequent as childcare?

• Guardian: Youngsters of older men at greater chance of mental sickness, study suggests

• Guardian: Nearly 11,000 admissions to hospital for obesity recorded in 2012-13

• HSJ: Dismay above moratorium on psychological health commissioning

On the network nowadays, journalist Vivien Goldsmith has written a piece explaining how NHS Modify Day became the largest movement in the well being service’s history.

And, Guardian columnist Jackie Ashley has written for Comment is free saying that folks power can alter the NHS from inside. She writes:

… whilst it’s simple to mock some of the 217,000 public pledges produced so far: to “communicate in a a lot more trustworthy and compassionate way” or to greater control a patient’s hospital discharge or to work to combat patients’ suicidal thoughts in the aggregate they include up to the distinction amongst a popular NHS and an unpopular, as a result politically vulnerable NHS.

As the motion itself puts it, “No matter how big or little the pledges have been – from a clinician making an attempt a child’s medicine to understand how it tasted, to a receptionist promising to smile a lot more, they gave us all a focus and reinforced our belief in the values of the NHS.”

But the second issue we need to recognize is that this is genuinely a bottom-up movement, and a massive component of its goal is to challenge petty authority. It has already empowered and liberated a lot of NHS personnel, encouraging them to speak out publicly, utilizing Twitter and other social media to express themselves.

Healthcare commentator Roy Lilley has written about NHS culture. He writes:

3 strands of NHS existence 3 cultures. We only require look up to see in which alter is needed initial and seem down to see the place it is necessary most. The newest staff survey final results are horrific virtually a third of personnel wouldn’t be content for their relatives to be handled in which they function.

It is not possible to collapse these cultures into one. They are different worlds with diverse languages. The trick to modifying this is to generate an overarching, enveloping climate of protection and secure haven where individuals can join in a single objective. That would change the culture from a world where performance is pursued by aggressive fanatics, to a planet that is graceful, thoughtful and due to the fact of it… delivers with out a functionality.

Only then does the the NHS discover its only business is to be in the peace of mind business.

And, the Conversation has a piece by David Springate, a biostatistician at the University of Manchester, that says overall health database, Care.information, could help keep away from an additional pharma scandal.

Systems need to be place in location to properly monitor users of this data and tougher penalties need to be introduced if the principles are breached. But patients are getting harmed every single day because of a lack of information sharing that could detect harmful side results and drug reactions that would never be picked up by clinical trials. It is genuinely this that we ought to all be doing work towards.

That is all for nowadays, we’ll be back tomorrow with our digest of the day’s healthcare information.

Right now in healthcare: Thursday 27 February

Today in healthcare: Thursday 13 February

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The Guardian these days reviews a warning by GP leaders of a “crisis of public confidence” in an NHS scheme set up to share specifics from people’s health-related information.

RCGP honorary secretary Professor Nigel Mathers explained:

We urgently need to have a renewed national push by the authorities to guarantee that patients are totally informed, in clear terms, about the benefits of the scheme, what their rights are, and what their rights to opt out are.

There is also information of Alder Hey children’s hospital failing 4 in 5 standards checks.

Today’s other healthcare headlines:

• Guardian: Signs of lung disease frequently ignored, study finds

• BBC: South Wales wellness boards think about specialist care shake-up

• HSJ: £10m of Healthwatch income ‘goes missing’

• Telegraph: New breast cancer drug ‘huge step forward’

• Independent: £1bn could be saved by NHS in excess of next decade if medical doctors diagnosed continual lung diseases earlier

• Nursing Occasions: Understanding disability nurses threaten to strike

• Pulse: CQC inspections will lead to ‘deluge’ of premise claims, says NHS England director

On the network nowadays SA Mathieson examines how the NHS workforce has transformed considering that the coalition took energy. Mathieson reviews:

What has altered significantly is the combine of workers. The quantity of physicians employed by NHS trusts rose by six.9% above the four many years to last October, to 105,056. Within this group, the variety of consultants rose virtually twice as quick, up 13.two% to 40,709. Numbers of competent ambulance and technical employees rose somewhat. Meanwhile, nursing numbers initially fell, leading to criticism from Labour leader Ed Miliband. But numbers have since recovered to 310,924, up 994 (.3%) over the 4 many years, with clinical assistance workers following a similar pattern.

But there have been massive NHS work cuts in 1 region: infrastructure help employees, down ten.two% more than the period. Within this group, the folks suffering the largest cuts have been non-senior managers, down 18.5% to 24,349, and senior managers, down 22.one% to ten,197. Numerous left as the outcome of the government’s phasing out of primary care trusts and strategic well being authorities, finished last April.

Writng for our sister Voluntary Sector Network, Ali Stunt, chief executive of the charity Pancreatic Cancer Action, explains why despite widespread criticism, its controversial ad campaign accomplished its aim.

Photograph: Pancreatic Cancer Action

Elsewhere, BBC healthcare correspondent Fergus Walsh writes about the opposing views to proposals from well being watchdog the Nationwide Institute for Wellness and Care Excellence to drastically boost the numbers provided statins Andrew M Brown also writes in the Telegraph about statins and mass medication and Andrew Jones in the Mental Elf blog writes about smoking cessation.

That’s all for right now, we’ll be back tomorrow with our digest of the day’s healthcare news.

Today in healthcare: Thursday 13 February

Today in healthcare: Thursday 6 February

Great morning and welcome to the daily website from the Guardian’s local community for healthcare specialists, providing a roundup of the key news stories across the sector.

If there is a story, report or occasion you’d like to highlight – or you would like to share your thoughts on any of the healthcare issues in the news today – you can get in touch by leaving a comment below the line or tweeting us at @GdnHealthcare.

Nowadays marks the initial anniversary of the Francis report on the Mid Staffs scandal. The BBC reviews on a evaluation by the Nuffield Believe in, published to coincide with the anniversary, which warns that fiscal pressures could get in the way of the drive to boost care following the Stafford hospital scandal. Overall health correspondent Nick Triggle reviews:

The warning was echoed by inquiry chair Robert Francis QC.

He criticised what he noticed as the “oppressive reactions” of the technique to hospitals that ran into difficulties with budgets and hitting targets.

He mentioned hospital leaders needed to be “frank” about whether or not they could provide high-quality care with current levels of funding.

Blogging for the Nuffield Trust, Ruth Thorlby asks whether the NHS is a safer location a yr right after the Francis report. She says study for the trust’s anniversary report reveals a amount initiatives to engage hospital employees in discussions about how to produce and sustain a patient-centred culture. But there is also stress from commissioners, regulators and other managerial bodies, which “could nonetheless truly feel punitive or blame searching for, still targeted on meeting fiscal and other overall performance targets”. Thorlby concludes:

… the message of the Francis Report is that culture issues across the entire NHS: if the individuals operating trusts truly feel too hounded by external bodies, the risk is that they won’t innovate or be in a position to produce the blame-free culture that lies at the heart of a patient-centred hospital.

Since in the end, the only people who truly know what’s going on at 2am on a hospital ward are the individuals and the personnel on that ward. Each want to truly feel in a position to speak up and be confident that they will be heard. Creating that open culture cannot be accomplished in isolation in each and every hospital believe in: it requirements to be supported right by way of the NHS technique.

Writing for the network, John Illingworth, a policy manager at the Health Foundation, seems to be at progress considering that the publication of the Francis report. Whilst the government and NHS England play a pivotal position in creatingthe correct atmosphere for adjust, he writes, it is down to folks on the ground to make the modifications deemed essential. He adds:

Can we take care of the reality? Are NHS believe in boards open to hearing about the dangers connected with their services? Will regulators react positively to problems currently being proactively raised by organisations? Is the media inclined to unearth the enhancements created as a consequence of security concerns, as effectively as the problems brought on by them? And is there an appetite between the public for this type of info relating to their healthcare?

The solution to the first three concerns could be “yes, but it depends”. But I think the solution to the fourth could basically be “yes”. If there is a single issue that irks the public a lot more than the occurrence of poor care, it is the tolerance and concealment of bad care. And this brings us back to the ‘c’ word. We believe that the method of proactively identifying dangers and being open about them would radically modify the culture of safety. Healthcare is a risky company, but now is the time to be candid about it if we’re going to make any progress towards the concerns recognized in the Francis inquiry.

Investigation by the HSJ to coincide with the anniversary of the report finds employees wellbeing and organisational culture are being taken much more significantly by acute believe in boards. And HSJ editor Alastair McLellan writes that the report has had a considerable influence on NHS culture.

The Guardian has launched a campaign to have female genital mutilation recognised as a crucial government priority. In a video, survivors of FGM from all in excess of the world, including the United kingdom, get in touch with for an fast end to the practice. Meanwhile, a senior Scotland Yard officer has warned that medical professionals are even now failing to report suspected circumstances of FGM to the police.

Finish female genital mutilation: join the Guardian’s campaign – video

News from elsewhere:

• Independent: Jeremy Hunt calls for assessment of Welsh hospitals

• Nursing Occasions: Lack of HCA training branded ‘shocking’ and ‘worrying’

• GP on the internet: GPs minimize cancer diagnosis waits

• Pulse: Keep track of launches probe into attracting new providers to run GP practices

That is all for right now, we’ll be back tomorrow with our digest of the day’s healthcare news.

Today in healthcare: Thursday 6 February

Today in healthcare: Thursday 30 January

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The Guardian reports that 6 hospital trusts are below fresh scrutiny following NHS information uncovered that they had “increased than anticipated” mortality rates. Healthcare correspondent Denis Campbell writes:

Two of the six, Colchester Hospital University NHS basis trust and East Lancashire Hospitals NHS trust, are already in unique measures following NHS medical director Professor Sir Bruce Keogh’s evaluation final year into 14 trusts with apparently high death prices.

Yet another of the six, Blackpool Teaching Hospitals NHS foundation believe in, was also amongst the 14 but was not amid the 11 place into special measures.

The NHS’s Overall health and Social Care Information Centre (HSCIC) on Wednesday explained that people three, plus Mid Cheshire Hospitals NHS foundation trust, Aintree University Hospital NHS basis trust in Liverpool and Wye Valley NHS trust in Herefordshire, all had unusually high death costs in 2012-13, as judged by the summary hospital-level mortality indicator.

Elsewhere, the Independent reports that the Royal Institute of British Architects has located a clear correlation in between the sum of green room, density of housing in urban locations, and the overall overall health of the regional population. Justine Womack, a public overall health specialist at Public Well being England, wrote for the network on a similar theme earlier this month when she referred to as for a “responsibility deal” for the created setting.

In other news right now:

• HSJ: Keep track of interventions double in response to Francis

• Nursing Times: Greater emphasis necessary on mental health of NHS staff

• Independent: A quarter of suicides take place within 90 days of becoming discharged from hospital, examine finds

• BBC: Jabs plea soon after far more measles circumstances

• Guardian: Ban on smoking in vehicles in front of youngsters moves closer right after Lords vote

• Pulse: Patient accessibility to on the web information to be limited to ‘prospective’ data, says minister

• GP On-line: NHS sustainability prepare launched

Creating for the network nowadays, Ben Nunn and Tom Sackville argue that gang violence is a public health problem, and appear at whether or not well being and wellbeing boards are contemplating gang and youth violence in the organizing of local well being solutions. They write:

The expense of violence to the NHS stands at £2.9bn a year (£200m more than the complete public wellness price range that was transferred to regional authorities this year).

In 2010-11, a lot more than 189,000 men and women had been admitted to A&ampE because of violent incidents some hospitals reported that 9% of all emergency admissions were linked to knife incidents.

The government has sought to reply to this challenge. 1 of the central tenets of its reaction to the 2011 disturbances was to move the situation of gang and youth violence away from currently being solely a problem for criminal justice companies, and in the direction of the wider realm of public well being.

Elsewhere, Roy Lilley sets out his six tips to redesign the flow and access to A&ampE
Cristina Odone also looks at emergency care, writing for the Telegraph that bad out of hrs service has spawned a culture of ‘go very first to A&ampE’.

Nigel Edwards blogs for the Nuffield Trust on hospital organisation in Europe. He writes:

… the Uk public sector consists of stand-alone hospitals or reasonably tiny hospital groups in close proximity. France and Germany and to a lesser extent some other nations have big chains or groups of hospitals that have a single management and a typical operating model. Hospitals not part of these groups increasingly have to think about partnering and networking with other hospitals.

All countries recognise that hospitals are not able to be planned as stand-alone institutions, and in numerous EU nations there are regional structures that take obligation for supplying this essential oversight.

… Whilst there is a good deal of rhetoric about building transformative new models of care, in the Uk the strategy is usually just to make the outdated model of hospital provision bigger (and even more away). A amount of the approaches being produced in the rest of Europe challenge some of the assumptions we have about hospitals and there is much more for us to discover.

And Anne Benson writes for the King’s Fund site about what mindfulness has to offer overall health and social care.

That’s all for these days, we’ll be back tomorrow with our digest of the day’s healthcare information.

Today in healthcare: Thursday 30 January

These days in healthcare: Thursday 23 January

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The Guardian reviews that a National Audit Office report reveals hospitals are failing to accurately record how lengthy a lot more than half of all patients wait prior to getting planned remedy, casting doubt on official NHS waiting time statistics. An inquiry by Whitehall’s spending watchdog identified there are errors in recording the wait seasoned by one particular in 4 patients, and underestimation of waiting times in nearly as several cases.

There is also news that Jeremy Hunt is to announce that sufferers in hospital should be put below the charge of a single consultant accountable for all the care they obtain, whose identify will have to be prominently displayed to make sure sick folks have an “advocate” even though getting treated. Social affairs editor Randeep Ramesh writes:

Jeremy Hunt will call for a culture adjust in NHS hospitalswhich doctors have told him now supply patient care in “a series of brief encounters”.

Hunt will say that he has been contacted by sufferers who told him of a series of medical mistakes brought on “by poor continuity of care, by a method in which no 1 took responsibility for sorting out the difficulty or hunting following the person rather than just a element of the body exactly where issues had gone wrong”.

The well being secretary’s biggest change will be the creation of US-type “hospitalist” physicians in the NHS. These are physicians, whom Hunt calls “entire-remain doctors”, who will not practise classic medication but instead are obtainable most of the day in the hospital to meet household members and are able to comply with up tests, reply nurses’ concerns, and assure that care is going in accordance to prepare.

In other news:

• BBC: Doubts cast on United kingdom heart-attack care

• HSJ: Workforce system tender could be well worth £1bn

• Guardian: Shorter lifespans between poor costing Europe trillions

• Pulse: Stroll-in centre linked with 26% reduction in daytime A&ampE visits

• GP on-line: Integrated urgent care needs funding overhaul, NHS leaders tell MPs

• eHealth Insider: Sufferers to add to health care record on the web

On the network nowadays, Robert Meadowcroft, chief executive of the Muscular Dystrophy Campaign, calls for proposals for ‘complex care’ GP practices to take into account the needs of individuals with added or rarer problems. Choosing up on feedback by senior NHS official Dr Martin McShane on how to improve and sustain main care for the developing amount of individuals with a single or more complex, prolonged-term health circumstances in the Uk, Meadowcroft says any significant investment and remodelling of care should take into account the needs of the 3.5 million people in the Uk living with uncommon diseases. He writes:

Serious respiratory infections, falls and cardiac issues all accompany types of muscular dystrophy. Sadly, regular and traumatic health emergencies are a fact of life for many families living with the problems. Well being pros primarily based locally, with complete knowledge of health-related background, a thorough understanding of a specific situation and a direct line to regional specialists, can each avert crises and be accessible to advise emergency teams need to one particular take place.

NHS information indicates that about forty% of emergency admissions to hospital for this patient group could have been averted by means of preventative care – monitoring, early intervention and physiotherapy. This amounts to possible financial savings of up to £32m a yr on emergency care. It appears unlikely that ‘complex care’ practices have a component to play right here.

Elsewhere, Robin Miller, senior fellow at the University of Birmingham’s Health Support Management Centre, writes for the Social Care Network about efficient preventative solutions for older folks.

And Tim Stanley writes for the Telegraph about patient safety incidents, arguing it’s time to dump the ‘wonder of the world’ myths about the NHS.

That is all for right now, we’ll be back tomorrow with our digest of the day’s healthcare news.

These days in healthcare: Thursday 23 January

These days in healthcare: Thursday 16 January

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The Guardian reports that two men with progressive blindness have regained some of their vision soon after taking element in the initial clinical trial of a gene treatment for the problem. Guardian science correspondent Ian Sample writes:

The males have been among 6 individuals to have experimental remedy for a rare, inherited, disorder referred to as choroideremia, which steadily destroys eyesight and leaves folks blind in middle age.
After treatment to correct a faulty gene, the guys could study two to 4 a lot more lines on an optician’s sight chart, a dramatic improvement that has held given that the doctors taken care of them.

Today’s other healthcare headlines:

• Guardian: Hefty consuming linked to early onset of memory decline in guys
• Telegraph: Ladies wanting abortions will not have to see medical professional
• GP On the web: QOF opt-out threat to long term of GP contract
• Pulse: GPs contact for public register of doctors’ fiscal interest
• Nursing Times: UCLH told to tackle A&ampE overcrowding and theatre security
• HSJ: Consecutive years of productivity development achieved
• Guardian: Productive comedians display symptoms of psychosis, examine says

On the network nowadays, Na’eem Ahmed, Diane Bell and Farooq Rafique create that competitors in healthcare does not have to be a case of winner requires all. They argue that commissioners want to comprehend that neighborhood providers can operate collectively and complement each and every other, to the benefit of patients:

Several consider competition as a “winner will take all” proposition, rather than seeing the prospective for a number of winners in the marketplace. Diverse kinds of competition can exist in company, and healthcare is no distinct. Competition in the market exists the place sufferers are ready to determine on the best place or physician for their remedy. Competition for the market place can also exist for illustration various companies operating with each other to deliver longer-phrase integrated care contracts for techniques, as implemented in musculoskeletal care in Bedfordshire, or the care of older men and women, as implemented in Cambridgeshire and Peterborough and Oxfordshire.

Commissioners may possibly in reality maximize worth for income by embracing a nuanced approach encouraging both competition and co-operation. In their book Co-Opetition, Adam Brandenburger and Barry Nalebuff provide the analogy of a judo match – competitors use their own strengths and their opponents’ weaknesses as they encounter every single other. The fate of one particular person is interdependent with the other the move a single individual makes influences the moves made by the other. Suppliers will fare much better if they function together rather than functioning in isolation.

Creating for Comment is totally free, Sarah Wollaston, Conservative MP and a former GP, says dying patients should be exempt from social care charges. She writes that MPs are thinking about no matter whether to add a clause to the care bill that would enable exemption from social care charges for individuals at the end of their lives.

Elswhere, Brendan Martin, managing director of Public World, writes that only a third of NHS personnel report effective communication with management.

Which is all for today, we’ll be back tomorrow with an additional digest of the day’s healthcare news.

These days in healthcare: Thursday 16 January

Nowadays in healthcare: Thursday 9 January

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The Guardian reviews that obesity authorities are launching a campaign to place pressure on the government and sector to reduce the sugar articles of food and drinks by up to thirty%. Well being editor Sarah Boseley writes:

The substantial-profile scientists and physicians behind Action on Sugar say that gradual cuts in the sum of sugar in ready meals, cereals, sweets and soft drinks will not be observed by the public, but will result in a reduction in the calories we all consume.

A 20-30% reduction in sugar over time will cut our calorie intake by about 100kcal a day – and far more for people who eat a lot of sugar.

That is enough to halt or even reverse the obesity epidemic and minimize the toll of diabetes and other illness, say the medical professionals, who contain Robert Lustig, author of Body fat Opportunity: The Bitter Truth About Sugar, and Professors John Wass, academic vice-president of the Royal College of Doctors, Philip James of the Worldwide Association for the Examine of Obesity and Sir Nicholas Wald of the Wolfson Institute of Preventive Medication.

There’s also information that the director of the Wellcome Trust has warned that resistance of ailment to antibiotics has reached a tipping stage at which it could creep into the United kingdom practically with no observe.

Today’s other healthcare information:

• HSJ: Board level culture undermines paperless ambition

• Pulse: Invest £250m in premises or neglect shifting care to GPs, GPC to tell NHS England

• GP on the web: Professional GP practices could tackle complicated patients’ needs

• Sky Information: NHS 111 ‘must place individuals ahead of profits’

• BBC: A&ampE warnings as Wrexham Maelor hospital ‘log-jammed’

• Telegraph: Most evil NHS employees have their pensions stripped

On the network these days, our columnist Richard Vize discusses patient involvement in the NHS. He writes:

With rising numbers of NHS trusts destined to slide into the fiscal mire this year and following, there is a single resource of which tough pushed hospitals take pleasure in a plentiful but underused provide – individuals. They are the greatest hope for cutting demand and transforming solutions.

“Coproduction” is up there with “integration” and “transformation” in the NHS lexicon of abused words. It is intended to signify clinical personnel involving patients in determining the very best course of remedy. As well being secretary, Andrew Lansley pitched this as “no determination about me with no me”.

Even though this was undoubtedly a single of the much more intelligible parts of his reform package deal, it conveys slightly the incorrect idea about why patient involvement is so important. That slogan produces the impression that it is merely a proper to be respected – but it is so considerably more powerful than that.

Patient involvement leads to much better therapy, and frequently less of it. It is a simple way to save income and preserve folks out of hospital.

And we’ve also a piece by Annie Francis, chief executive of Neighbourhood Midwives, who argues that the midwife’s part has been pushed out of the neighborhood and into hospital wards, “generating a support that offers staff to fill buildings rather than care for women and treats childbirth as an illness, rather than a lifestyle encounter”.

Writing for Comment is cost-free, GP Kate Adams admits she often Googles her sufferers:

The social side of men and women, who they are and what they do, can be important and pertinent to the issue they bring to the consultation. It is unusual for me not to know what an individual does as they depart my consulting room. Curiosity frequently will get the better of me but I feel it aids me construct a rapport and a greater comprehending of the individual.

… I do not think medical professionals in the United kingdom Google their patients routinely. If I am puzzled about someone I have seen – it could be their behaviour or a daily life history that doesn’t seem to include up – it is not Google I flip to, but their health-related information. In the NHS we have access to data for the majority of the population from when they were born, and at times these can be quite revealing. Medical professionals doing work in a hospital or in some other context might not have this wealth of data to hand, so may turn to Google as an alternative.

Elsewhere, Ian Blunt writes for the Nuffield Trust weblog about regular end users of A&ampE.

Catrin Nye and Hermeet Chadha of the BBC Asian Network report on the rise of the youthful non-drinkers.

And John Holmes claims on the Conversation website that a ban on under value alcohol product sales would be 40 times much less effective than minimum pricing.

The most recent NHS social media Twitter discussion, on wellness informatics, took location yesterday evening. You can catch up with it via the hashtag #nhssm

Which is all for these days, we’ll be back tomorrow with another digest of the day’s healthcare information.

Nowadays in healthcare: Thursday 9 January