NHS England delays consultation on restructure and job cutsJudith Welikala
eConsult says that where possible, patients completing the questionnaire in the NHS app will have their online consultation passed onto their regular GP surgery, where staff will then undertake the initial triage. The service is currently available in around a third of surgeries in England. There ...
NHS England refused my request based on Section 22 [intended for future publication]. [4] However ten months later the meeting minutes had never been published. In July 2015, after appeal, the Information Commissioner issued an Information Notice and NHS England published sixty-three minutes and ...
If he has not done so already, though I am sure he will have, he could read the NHS England own care.data listening feedback. People were strongly against commercial exploitation of data.Many were livid about its use.[see other care.data events]Not ‘slightly uncomfortable.’ And they wer...
But chief executive Sue Frith said: ‘Fraud against the NHS is insidious and a despicable crime. We will never stop pursuing those who see the NHS budget as a pot of money to line their own pockets.’ Figures compiled by the watchdog, published in an NHS England planning document, show ...
Today, Simon Stevens takes over the rôle from Sir David Nicholson of leading NHS England. It is known that Stevens used to be a SpAd to Frank Dobson MP, a former Labour Secretary of State for the Health. It is alleged that he used to be, at least, a member of the Socialist Health...
“The accuracy of the records [is important]. It’s okay you reading what the doctor wrote about my consultation last week,hypothetically and theoretically,but if you put down a few,a couple of wrong things,what’s the point of interoperability then? Unless I can actually mention to the do...
Another initiative in England, ‘Pairing trainee managers and doctors – an initiative to facilitate joint working for better patient care in the South East Coast’ [12], paired management trainees in their first year of training in the NHS with Foundation Year 2 doctors. The pair undertook a ...
In neonatal units there was notable variation regarding the use of occlusive dressings, ranging from always being used (8% of responses) to never being used (31%). Variation in the use of saline flush-out, either with or without hyaluronidase, was also evident; these interventions seem to ...
Smokers in the UK are estimated to be four times more likely to quit if they use a Stop Smoking Service [22], however, around only 15% of pregnant women who smoke access these services in England [20]. We found that only one third of services employed ‘opt-out’ referral pathways. ...