Nowadays in healthcare: Tuesday 28 January

Good morning and welcome to the every day website from the Guardian’s community for healthcare professionals, offering a roundup of the important news stories across the sector.

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Reporting for the network, Paul Dinsdale reveals that about 300 NHS staff in commissioning assistance units are dealing with redundancy in the initial wave of management job cuts considering that last April’s reorganisation.

There’s also news that a simple mix-up in an operating theatre that left a  10-yr-old girl with catastrophic brain harm has led to the NHS facing a £24m payout – the greatest in a situation of medical negligence. 

Elsewhere today:

• Telegraph: Anger in excess of NHS ‘U-turn’ on prostate cancer medication

• HSJ: Trusts face new emergency division regular

• eHealth Insider: Care.data safeguards detailed

• Nursing Times: Staffing gap grows between NHS nursing sectors

• GP Online: Patients at threat as flu vaccine uptake drops to three-12 months lower

• BBC: New calls to alter intercourse and relationship education

Dr Chris Lancelot writes for GP Online calling for NHS England to deal with excessive demand and as well number of sources. Responding to information that NHS England is £225m overspent, he writes: 

Bad factors! They are overloaded and have also several responsibilities. My heart bleeds for them. NHS England has just received a taste of its personal medication – and guess what? — it’s caved in instantly.

Sadly, it soon recovered and — at a time when GPs are functioning twelve-hour days and with every single likelihood that the acute solutions will turn out to be swamped — quickly launched a campaign to get individuals to seek skilled aid early to keep away from the dangers of late diagnosis.

So allow me get this straight: NHS England overspends hugely, but nonetheless cannot do its task since of excessive demand nevertheless it still expects GPs to cope with lowering assets and excessive demand which it makes a stage of attempting to boost.

How can we believe in NHS England when it behaves like this?

Guardian columnist Michele Hanson writes, following a friend’s current knowledge, that NHS hospitals are over-run with rules and laws.

And on  the Health Basis blog, Jeremy Taylor, chief executive of National Voices, says patients should define worth. Following a presentation by  Harvard professor and enterprise guru Michael Porter at a conference final week, Taylor writes that individuals “can not only define worth but produce worth – if provided the chance”.

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

Nowadays in healthcare: Tuesday 28 January