Excellent morning and welcome to the daily weblog from the Guardian’s community for healthcare professionals, providing a roundup of the key information stories across the sector.
If there is a story, report or event you’d like to highlight – or you would like to share your thoughts 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 Guardian reports that the shadow wellness secretary is to say an added 109,000 sufferers were diagnosed with cold-connected illnesses at A&E departments last yr. The Press Association story says the shadow health secretary is to give a state of the NHS address in Birmingham right now, and will say:
The government has allowed A&E to come under siege from all sides to the point where it is now in danger of currently being overwhelmed.
A&E these days is becoming the final resort for millions of men and women who are struggling to cope with the price-of-residing crisis and cuts to community providers. This explains why the existing economic yr is set to be the worst in A&E for at least a decade.
More information:
• Guardian: Cosmetic surgical treatment operations in Britain top 50,000 for the very first time
• Telegraph: NHS Healthcare Director to meet loved ones of heart death boy
• Independent: Government attacked above discounts with quickly-foods market
• Nursing Occasions: Get in touch with to make certain students can increase issues
• eHealth Insider: Portsmouth midwives co-create app
• GP on the web: Medico-legal app gives GPs mobile guidance
Weekend headlines
The Guardian reported that NHS efficiency information displays ambulances are taking longer to attain individuals with existence-threatening problems after getting a 999 contact.
And the Observer predicted that talks between the newly launched Action on Sugar campaign and t the wellness secretary Jeremy Hunt this week could be crucial.
David Prior, the chairman of the Care High quality Commission, wrote for the Sunday Telegraph calling for significant prolonged-phrase modifications in the NHS “to deal with the requirements of our ageing population and more and more tight budgets”. He referred to as for a lot more better involvement of the personal and voluntary sectors in healthcare, incorporating:
Probably most crucially, we require to alter the culture.
For us, as a regulator, that signifies hunting holistically at the performance of hospitals, using measures that matter to sufferers and that constantly enhance performance.
We require the Government to modify the way it holds the NHS to account: an finish to trusts currently being blindsided by waiting targets that miss the point, skew priorities and have unintended consequences.
Here is some of the other healthcare stories from around the world wide web this weekend:
• BBC: More NHS trusts sliding into the red
• Independent: Smokers’ lungs utilised in half of transplants
• Telegraph: Consuming alcohol for the duration of pregnancy could be ruled a crime
Comment and analysis
On the network these days, Bob Hudson, a professor in the College of Utilized Social Sciences at Durham University, writes about integration, and sets out the 6 problems of joint operating. He writes:
There is no reason to doubt that services consumers want far better joined-up care and there is virtually undoubtedly widespread enthusiasm amid frontline practitioners. The dilemma lies additional up the policy foods chain.
The paradox here is that the Division of Wellness parrots the partnership mantra, but promotes policies that undermine it whilst doing little to eliminate longstanding obstacles.
Elsewhere, Roy Lilley seems to be at the influence of the Francis report – published this time last yr. He writes:
Some would say there are far more nurses simply because of Francis. Maybe, but commencing from a minimal base, ‘far more‘ does not imply ‘enough‘ and there are nonetheless no appropriate directions about nurse patient ratios. For security motives airlines have cabin-crew-passenger ratio regulations. I would have even though looking right after vulnerable folk in extremis is just as essential.
… Francis’ suggestions had been not prioritised, supported with significantly evidence nor costed. He has us stranded in a no-man’s-land amongst too challenging for the DH, also difficult for Boards, also difficult for the front-line and as well perplexing for individuals.
And writing for the Conversation internet site, Linda Bauld asks what do we know about e-cigarettes?
That’s all for right now, we’ll be back tomorrow with our digest of the day’s healthcare information.
Right now in healthcare: Monday three February
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