Our live blog is on hold till the new yr, so here’s a summary of what is been taking place across the healthcare sector this week.
The massive overall health story this week broke last Friday evening, when Guardian healthcare correspondent Denis Campbell uncovered that individuals taken into hospital at the weekend as an emergency will in future be routinely observed by senior doctors, to end “ethically unjustifiable” higher death charges on Saturdays and Sundays. He wrote:
NHS bosses intend to finish the predicament whereby critically unwell sufferers admitted at weekends are at a 12% larger risk of dying than weekday arrivals simply because they typically are treated by more junior healthcare staff and have to wait for vital diagnostic exams.
Professor Sir Bruce Keogh, NHS England’s national health care director, will unveil ideas on Sunday to give all urgent and emergency individuals the same top quality of care, regardless of which day they arrive – proposals that stick to a yr-extended inquiry, involving some of the service’s most senior figures, into how it can accomplish an historic expansion of NHS care.
Sceptics about the NHS’s capability to start delivering such providers every day of the week have claimed that carrying out so will price £31bn or two-sevenths much more. But Keogh will argue that providing a seven-day service would only need a two% increase in the NHS’s price range – about £2.2bn.
Appearing on the BBC’s Andrew Marr display on Sunday, Keogh explained:
Society has moved on and folks assume more and much more from companies at the weekend. There is the problem about are we working our business efficiently? It seems odd in a lot of approaches that we need to start off to wind down on a Friday afternoon and warm up on a Sunday … and [in the] meantime people are waiting for diagnosis and treatment.
Guardian also reported that NHS England is to give all 211 clinical commissioning groups funding rises of at least the charge of inflation for the next two years. NHS England’s board defied the Division of Wellness by throwing out its ideas to make the age of the regional population, not the degree of deprivation, a crucial aspect in the allocation of NHS funding. The choice signifies that scores of CCGs in deprived areas will no longer see their budgets minimize from April. Labour MPs had claimed that this kind of a move would lead to almost £1bn getting shifted from poor places which have low existence expectancy to wealthier areas where residents dwell longer.
Brussels correspondent Ian Traynor reported that the European Union has struck a deal which could curb the booming market place in electronic cigarettes and lead to an EU-wide ban on a common version of the nicotine gadget.
And the Datablog crew looked at essential statistics on gambling, integrated for the initial time in the Wellness Survey for England.
Prof Kevin Fenton, director of well being and wellbeing at Public Health England, tweeted about the Well being and Social Care Information Centre report:
Here is a run by means of some of the other healthcare stories from all around the internet this week:
• GP on the internet: Health minister urges GPs to function a lot more effectively to open 7 days
• HSJ: This winter will be worse than final, warn hospital chiefs
• Pulse: Hakin – Poor GP care accountable for growing emergency admissions
• Nursing Occasions: CQC sets out strategies for community inspections
• Telegraph: One-in-5 redundant NHS employees rehired
• eHealthInsider: Wales launches £9.5m health tech fund
• Pulse: NHS England ‘almost burying head in the sand’ on GP workforce crisis, admits director
• BBC: Hospital foods ‘needs legally-binding standards’
• HSJ: Royal Liverpool signs ‘lowest cost’ PFI deal
• Telegraph: Damning report exposes NHS secrecy in breast cancer scandal
On the network, the most study piece this week was by our columnist Dick Vinegar on the subject of telehealth. He wrote that tiny scale initiatives can reduce costs and assist sufferers. After attending a current conference on telehealth, he wrote:
One particular speaker from the floor recommended that the way to push telehealth was to ask GPs who, among their sufferers, had been the “frequent flyers” to hospital, and then investigate no matter whether these patients may possibly use telehealth to decrease their visits to hospital.
This looks to me to be a no-brainer, much far better than the existing method of deciding on a group of illnesses, like COPD, heart failure and diabetes, and assuming that people with these diseases are by definition ideal for telehealth. Some may be, but a lot of are not. If the function of telehealth is to maintain people in their properties and not in hospital, then review the frequent flyers. 1 may well find that COPD and so forth are not the common illnesses to advantage from telehealth, but something else.
Also well-known this week:
• Will new integration fund be a catalyst or catastrophe?
• Clause 118 of care bill threatens hospitals with downsizing or closure
• A&E staffing: why numerous medical doctors go to work abroad or switch careers
• Why personnel engagement is crucial for healthcare innovation
If you missed our discussion last week on how feedback can adjust the NHS, we have compiled a roundup. And we’ve also place collectively a quiz of the yr, so you can test your expertise of the most significant healthcare stories of 2013.
And lastly, a couple of festive tweets. Guardian journalism trainee Frances Perraudin asked whether these Russian dolls are the worst Christmas present ever.
Even though John Donoghue has shared this festive decoration in an unnamed A&E department.
Season’s greeting from all at the Healthcare Pros Network. We’ll be back in the new 12 months.
This week in healthcare: sixteen-20 December
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