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The big switch: what the change to CCGs could mean – part 2
As I commented in advance last week, yesterday was a big day for the NHS – 152 Primary Care Trusts (PCTs) and ten Strategic Health Authorities ceased to exist and 211 Clinical Commissioning Groups...
View ArticleCongested A&E and low bed count: what do these symptoms tell us of the NHS’s...
This week we have once again been informed that A & E departments all over the country are experiencing real problems of “over demand”, we have also seen yet another hospital: Gloucestershire’s...
View ArticleHidden cameras in care homes: can they help or hinder British social care?
Today the Care Quality Commission (CQC) published an advisory pamphlet on clandestine surveillance in care homes by means of hidden cameras or sound recording equipment. Following the BBC’s ‘Panorama’...
View ArticleWhat can help our GPs cope?
The fact that only eight per cent of GPs think that the currently allocated 10 minute patient consultation slot is long enough is startling. When less than one in ten of a profession thinks working...
View ArticleNo exit: misleading recruitment of nurses could mean hardship for those from...
Recruitment bodies, working in Europe and supplying the NHS, have apparently been making enticing promises that cannot be kept for example, the offer of unrealistic wages, free or discounted...
View ArticleBy failing to monitor patient outcomes the Cancer Drugs Fund reveals its lack...
The fact that the Cancer Drugs Fund has not been collecting data on patient outcome for those it has been prescribing for seems inexcusable. The fund was created in 2011 to give cancer patients access...
View ArticleSafety levels fall while deficits rise in the NHS
The Care Quality Commission’s ‘State of Health Care and Adult Social Care’ report has compounded the woes made apparent in last week’s announcement that NHS trusts have accumulated £1 billion of...
View ArticleCan the de-hospitalisation of those with learning disabilities serve as a...
Calderstones is a 223 bed hospital specialising in care for those with learning disabilities and is the only one remaining with this specialisation in the UK. Its closure has just been announced for...
View ArticleIs the Conservative government becoming vulnerable over health issues?
Negotiations between Jeremy Hunt and the British Medical Association regarding junior doctors’ pay, which have now lasted for over two years, have failed. Matters turned particularly ugly recently with...
View ArticleWill the 1st December see a winner in the junior doctor dispute?
In less than two week’s time, the first in a series of three strikes by junior doctors planned for this December is due to take place. Authorised by the British Medical Association, these short but...
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