Right now in healthcare: Wednesday five February

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The Guardian reviews on new information from Public Health England, which finds that virtually two-thirds of adults in England are obese. Well being editor Sarah Boseley writes:

Copeland, Cumbria, has the most obese individuals in England, in accordance to the information from Public Wellness England. The examination demonstrates that more than 3-quarters of Copeland’s population (75.9%) are obese or obese.

Doncaster, south Yorkshire, has the second highest population of obese individuals with 74.4%, although East Lindsey, Lincolnshire, comes third, with 73.eight%.

Today’s other healthcare headlines:

• Nursing Occasions: Workers amounts even now ‘dangerous’ a 12 months following Mid Staffs report

• HSJ: NHS ‘demoralised and degraded’

• Guardian: NHS watchdog says Virgin Care-run clinic put patients at threat
• Guardian: Sale of ultra-low cost alcohol to be banned in England and Wales
• Independent: New Tory cronyism row as CQC head faces scrutiny

• Telegraph: Bird flu – new strain claims first victim

• BBC: Sufferers ‘in dark’ more than database

• Pulse: GP hit with contract discover over prepare to opt all patients out of care.data

Jeremy Hunt has written for the Telegraph ahead of the first anniversary of the Francis report, saying the NHS now has a lot more nurses, much less box-ticking, and higher transparency. He writes:

Across the NHS, men and women have commenced to call these alterations “the Francis effect”: a tangible shift in priorities in our hospitals. The NHS is crossing the Rubicon, with compassionate care starting to change tick-box targets as the main focus on boards and wards. Credit score for this must go to the whistle-blowers who battled bullying and harassment to get a public inquiry into Mid Staffs. I was delighted to see new year honours for former Mid Staffs nurse Helene Donnelly and Cure the NHS founder Julie Bailey. We have now place in spot new structures to inspire trusts and people to be equally candid: the number of whistle-blowers contacting the CQC is on the up, with seven,626 contacts recorded for this economic yr to date.

Creating for the network, Patrick Vernon suggests Oscar-nominated movie 12 Years a Slave could be utilised as a resource on cultural identity and diversity for healthcare staff. He writes:

The problem of the legacy of enslavement, especially around the crisis in the mental health and criminal justice method facing the black local community, is even now relevant nowadays. The above representation of black men and, increasingly females, in psychatriatic care and prisons is one of the biggest indictments for 21st century Britain. Now, much more kids and youngsters are caught as victims or perpetrators of knife and/or gun crime. There requirements to be a significant rethink and policy growth with regards to racial inequalities in which mental wellness is 1 facet of the wider problems affecting BAME communities.

We have also a piece by Helen Gilburt, a fellow at the King’s Fund and co-writer of new report Services transformation: Lessons from psychological health. She discusses what hospitals can learn from psychological overall health service transformation.

Mental overall health is a crucial theme for today’s SocietyGuardian segment nowadays as properly. Mary O’Hara calls for mental wellbeing to be tackled prior to it leads to a require for crisis care, and columnist Clare Allen admits to feeling sceptical about the government’s dedication to achieving parity of esteem in the remedy of mental and physical wellness troubles.

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

Right now in healthcare: Wednesday five February