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Making the economic argument for social care
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Robyn Quick 28 March, 2024
Prof. Vic Rayner (OBE), CEO of the National Care Forum asks why social care is never mentioned in the same sentence as growth and economic value.
Amongst the current talk of the importance of ‘economic growth’ and the previous emphasis on ‘levelling up’, no-one ever mentions the social care sector’s best kept secret; the fact that it makes a massive contribution to the English economy, to the tune of nearly £56bn according to the latest Skills for Care data.
This makes it twice as big as agriculture and bi ..read more
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Plans to free up appointments with new powers for dental and pharmacy staff Polly Jones 28 March, 2024
Plans to free up appointments with new powers for dental and pharmacy staff
28 March, 2024
The government has announced plans to give new powers to pharmacy technicians, dental hygienists and dental therapists to supply and administer medicines in an attempt to give patients faster, simpler and fairer access to primary care.
The announcement follows faster, simpler and fairer access to primary care.
Dental hygienists and therapists will be able to give patients certain types of medicines ..read more
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Digital pharmacy system improves patient backlog Robyn Quick 28 March, 2024
Digital pharmacy system improves patient backlog
28 March, 2024
Nearly 26,000 GP appointments were freed up in February because of a digital pharmacy system available across Wales.
The Common Ailments Service (CAS) supports community pharmacies to provide services for patients across Wales and aims to free up GP appointments for people with more complex needs.
Under the scheme, free treatment and advice can be offered for common conditions including sore throats, colic and chickenpox.
It is part of the wider Cho ..read more
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Satisfaction with NHS at lowest level ever Polly Jones 28 March, 2024
Satisfaction with NHS at lowest level ever
28 March, 2024
The annual British Social Attitudes survey has revealed that satisfaction with the NHS is at the lowest level recorded since the survey began in 1983. This is the case across every service and within all demographics and socio-economic groups.
The report based on the British Social Attitudes survey explores public satisfaction with the NHS and social care. The report assesses how views towards the NHS and social care have changed over time and public opinion on N ..read more
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NHS launches digital advisory framework Robyn Quick 28 March, 2024
NHS launches digital advisory framework
28 March, 2024
NHS Shared Business Services (NHS SBS) has launched a digital health advisory services framework agreement to help the NHS strengthen the digital, data and technology (DDaT) skills and capabilities of its workforce.
Developed in collaboration with NHS England’s Transformation Directorate, NHS SBS’s digital health advisory services framework agreement consists of 40 providers of consultancy services that can support with the delivery of IT projects, clinical informatic ..read more
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Water Hygiene - Control of Legionella Freya 27 March, 2024
Water Hygiene - Control of Legionella
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Water management (Hygiene) is an essential element in healthcare settings as it directly impacts on the quality of medical care and safety of staff and patients. Water quality should not and must not be marginalised or treated as a ‘less important’ issue on the list of clinical risks. But the truth is that, on occasions, when we hear of outbreaks of Legionella (or other water borne bacterium), the cause may well be either poor water quality or substandard prac ..read more
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A whole-region approach to streamlining and supporting NHS careers
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Robyn Quick 27 March, 2024
Catherine Langstreth, assistant principal of curriculum and stakeholder engagement, Bolton College explains how people in Bolton are supported into NHS careers.
The role of education providers in sustaining and supporting the healthcare workforce cannot be overstated. But no one provider can do this in isolation.
In Bolton, we’ve worked hard to establish and cement partnerships with other key players to allow us to take a whole-region approach in helping people get on the right ..read more
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UKHSA publishes childhood vaccination statistics Polly Jones 27 March, 2024
UKHSA publishes childhood vaccination statistics
27 March, 2024
The UK Health Security Agency (UKHSA) has published the latest uptake figures for routine childhood immunisations in the quarterly COVER report.
The report monitors vaccine coverage for children in the UK aged 12 months, 24 months and five years.
The report shows that in this quarter, coverage in one-year-olds in England (excluding London) was at least 92 per cent for all immunisations except rotavirus.
However, for two-year-olds in England, coverag ..read more
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NHS Providers launches guide to tackling health inequalities Polly Jones 27 March, 2024
NHS Providers launches guide to tackling health inequalities
27 March, 2024
NHS Providers has launched a guide for NHS trust board members to tackle health inequalities, while warning that failure to act urgently on these disparities will put overstretched health and care services under even more pressure.
'Reducing health inequalities: A guide for NHS trust board members' has been designed to help NHS trust board members drive down unjust differences in health outcomes in their local communities.
The ..read more
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Funding announced to increase active travel Polly Jones 26 March, 2024
Funding announced to increase active travel
26 March, 2024
Communities across England are set to benefit from £101 million of funding to provide high-quality walking and cycling routes and improve the quality of local public engagement for new walking and cycling schemes, free e-cycle loans, expanding trials of side road zebra crossings and developing new active travel routes in National Parks.
Active Travel England (ATE) announced that the funding will enable local authorities to deliver walking and cycling schemes an ..read more