The BMA has launched a new campaign to capture how the changes in the NHS in England are affecting doctors and patients.
via BMA campaign reports how NHS changes are affecting frontline services | BMJ.
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The former boss of a hospital which is being investigated over high death rates has told MPs there was a culture of “sheer bullying” in the NHS
via BBC News – NHS whistleblower Gary Walker ‘faced bullying culture’.
The parallel roles of the two main regulators of the NHS in England, the Care Quality Commission (CQC) and Monitor, are confusing and could cause gaps in regulation or duplication of work, MPs have warned.
via Regulators’ roles allow for gaps or duplication in monitoring NHS, say MPs | BMJ.
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Patients are being photographed in hospitals by their families because of “unprecedented” levels of anxiety about their care, a conference has heard.
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King’s fund director of policy Anna Dixon is to join the Department of Health to take up a new post focusing on quality.
via Anna Dixon appointed to new DH quality role | News | Health Service Journal.
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The Secretary of State for Health has written to chairs of all NHS trusts to remind them of the importance of ensuring an open culture within the NHS. His letter is on the back of Robert Francis’s report into failings at Mid Staffordshire NHS Foundation Trust, and recent media coverage about staff being able to raise concerns about patient safety.
The latest edition of the Stroke Horizon Scanning is out and available. Produced by NHS Libraries North West, Horizon Scanning is : “Bringing together best practice, innovation and future risks to support the commissioning process and service redesign.
The government has agreed to cap the lifetime costs that anyone would have to pay for social care in England at £75 000 (€87 000; $117 000), more than double the £35 000 recommended by Andrew Dilnot’s review of social care
via Government sets £75 000 cap on social care in England | BMJ.
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A growing number of local NHS managers in England believe that the quality of care in their organisation is worsening as the effects of the drive to make £20bn (€23bn; $31bn) in NHS efficiency savings begin to bite, says the latest quarterly monitoring survey by the health think tank the King’s Fund.
via Cuts are putting quality of care at risk, say NHS managers | BMJ.
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GPs refer more than three quarters of people who go on to receive a diagnosis of cancer after only one or two consultations, shows an audit of cancer diagnosis in England. The audit concludes that the number of consultations is a useful indicator of the time interval between a patient presenting with cancer symptoms and being referred to see a specialist.1
via GPs spot 80% of cancers within two consultations, audit shows | BMJ.
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Barriers to choice is an independent review by David Boyle about public demand for choice in public services, and about any barriers people might face when making choices.
via Barriers to choice: public services review | Cabinet Office.
Patient safety campaigners have called on the government to accept all the recommendations of the public inquiry into the events at Mid Staffordshire NHS Foundation Trust between 2005 and 2009 when they are published on 6 February, even if this means changing its current policy.
via Government will need to make health policy U turns after Francis report, says safety expert | BMJ.
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UK doctors who hand over medical records to patients who are contemplating assisted suicide abroad will not face disciplinary action by their regulator for aiding a suicide, the General Medical Council says in new guidance.
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The widespread system failure at Mid Staffordshire NHS Trust makes the identification of individual people responsible a “futile exercise” because so many are accountable, said Robert Francis QC in his report into the public inquiry.1 Naming names would “risk perpetuating the illusion that removal of particular individuals is all that is necessary” and focusing on “blame will perpetuate the cycle of defensiveness, concealment, lessons not being identified, and further harm.”
via Organisations not individual people are to blame, says Francis | BMJ.
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Death rates at five trusts have been “higher than expected” two years in a row, figures show.
via Warning on NHS trusts’ death rates | News | Health Service Journal.
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In 50 years’ time the United Kingdom could be spending 20% of its gross domestic product on the NHS, putting a relentless squeeze on other government spending, concludes a new analysis by John Appleby, chief economist at the health think tank the King’s Fund.1
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via Growing wealth has resulted in greater spending on health, report argues | BMJ.
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Women’s views on overdiagnosis in breast cancer screening: a qualitative study | BMJ.
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Objective To elicit women’s responses to information about the nature and extent of overdiagnosis in mammography screening (detecting disease that would not present clinically during the woman’s lifetime) and explore how awareness of overdiagnosis might influence attitudes and intentions about screening. Continue reading
Hospitals are “very bad places for old, frail people,” the chief executive of the NHS Commissioning Board, David Nicholson, believes. Hospitals’ focus on getting a diagnosis, referring the patient to the right place, and getting treatment is unsuited to a patient population, 40% of whom will have some form of dementia, he told the Independent newspaper in an interview.1
via Alternatives to hospital for older people must be found, says NHS chief | BMJ.
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The BMA and the NHS Alliance have questioned the value of the latest idea from the prime minister for all general practitioners in England to undergo the “friends and family” test as a way to root out services that offer unacceptable standards of care.
via Critics question whether “friends and family” test in NHS is fit for prime minister’s purpose | BMJ.
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Doctors should take a lead in explaining to patients why major changes are needed to the health service in England to make it truly modern and sustainable, the head of the body that represents NHS organisations has said.
via Doctors must help explain need for NHS changes, says NHS Confederation | BMJ.
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For the first time, people who use mental health services will get more choice about where and how they get their condition treated in the NHS.
The Government’s response to its consultation on proposals for greater patient involvement and more choice has been published today.
via Steps set out for greater patient involvement and more choice | Department of Health.
The government should take “a more active interest” in ensuring that patient care is not being rationed, a report suggests.
via Warning on patient care 'rationing' | News | Health Service Journal.
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Dental Results GP Patient Survey – July to September 2012
Today, the Department of Health have published dental access statistics, on findings from the first wave of results from the GP Patient Survey (conducted between July and September 2012). A summary report comparing these results to the previous year (July to September 2011) is published alongside.
via Dental Results GP Patient Survey – July to September 2012 | Media Centre.
Today, Ipsos-MORI has published the latest results of the GP Patient Survey, which they are carrying out on behalf of the Department of Health. The results are aggregated from the second wave of the 2011-12 GP Patient Survey and the first wave of the 2012-13 GP Patient Survey, conducted during January to March and July to September 2012.
A High Court judge has refused to give a hospital trust caring for a man deemed minimally conscious by clinicians a declaration that it need not offer him “futile and burdensome” treatment if his condition deteriorated.
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