Good morning and welcome to the every day weblog from the Guardian’s local community for healthcare professionals, providing a roundup of the essential news stories across the sector.
If there is a story, report or event you’d like to highlight – or you would like to share your ideas on any of the healthcare concerns in the news these days – you can get in touch by leaving a comment beneath the line or tweeting us at @GdnHealthcare.
The Independent reviews on poll findings that much more than 80% of hospital medical professionals would not want colleagues to treat their buddies and loved ones. The doctors.net.united kingdom survey of 4,600 hospital physicians and one,000 GPs, released ahead of the 10th anniversary of the death of Harold Shipman, reveals that 67% of GPs agree there remain specific practitioners inside of the NHS who could fail individuals.
And the Guardian says Andrew Lansley has clashed with a single of his former advisers on weight problems, arguing well being experts are incorrect to declare that sugar is as dangerous as smoking.
Here is this morning’s other healthcare stories:
• Telegraph: Fears for the elderly underneath new NHS drugs policy
• HSJ: Eight sufferers left on trolleys for in excess of 12 hours
• Nursing Instances: CQC warns of ‘staff shortage risk’ at busy Yorkshire A&E
• Pulse: GPs told to avoid asking NHS England concerns due to workers shortages
• GP on the internet: Telehealth will not improve care, say GPs
• Independent: Royal Victoria Hospital – A&E in contrast to ‘M.A.S.H. unit’ following main incident
• BBC: Wales NHS scan and ultrasound waiting times treble
On the network these days, Pollyanna Jones writes about NHS Change Day, which is coming up in March. Following the 200,000 pledges produced on final year’s 1st alter day, Jones says this year’s aim is for half a million commitments to do something better. She writes:
A single of the fantastic items about NHS Change Day is that there is no obligation, no prime-down mandate. This is an entirely voluntary motion led by men and women who, like me, believe a alter to the NHS would be best coming from inside the organisation.
And if you are cynical or have problems with the NHS, then this is your opportunity to have your voice heard and to make a small alter for your self, and for other individuals. The only way to sweep the cynics up and make them genuine agents for change is from a grassroots social motion.
These hardened staff will not respond to boardroom, prime-down tactics and recommendations for modify – but this is their opportunity to do what they want, independent of hierarchy. To make the changes they speak about soon after perform in the pub on a Friday evening.
Our most recent “five minutes with” mini interview is with Janet Wisely, chief executive of the Overall health Study Authority, who would like all NHS individuals to have the possibility to be involved in analysis – and for Arsenal to win the Premier League.
The network’s best five pieces this week have been:
• Kailash Chand: The NHS is on the brink of extinction – we need to have to shout about it
• Toolkit makes use of patient experiences to increase psychological wellness providers
• Chris Hopson: What will 2014 bring for the NHS?
• Annie Francis: Overstretched maternity providers? Get in touch with the Midwife
• Dick Vinegar: 2013 – the 12 months patients’ lives became far more crucial than doctors’ weekends
Creating for Comment is free of charge, Felicity Lawrence calls for an finish to the “sweet madness” of excess sugar consumption.
Elsewhere, IPPR director Nick Pearce blogs that an NHS tax could tackle the funding crunch in overall health and social care. He writes:
… the argument for an NHS tax provides the intriguing prospect not just of placing the wellness support and the wider public finances on a a lot more sustainable footing but of cracking the hitherto intractable dilemma of funding care of the elderly. Back in 2001, when Gordon Brown responded to the Wanless report into NHS funding by rising national insurance coverage, he considered expanding the scope of the reform to cover social care also, but drew back. In the future, nevertheless, it will be essential to integrate the financing of the NHS and social care. An NHS tax may possibly be the best way of mustering public support for tackling two significant public policy challenges in one particular go.
And the NHS England chief information officer Geraint Lewis writes for the HSJ that a lot more patient data in the end indicates greater care.
Jeremy Hunt has tweeted the most current figures on the buddies and household test
Although Roger Kline has tweeted about diversity, noting the board of Walsall CCG.
Which is all for these days, we’ll be back on Monday with an additional digest of the day’s healthcare information.
Right now in healthcare: Friday ten January
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