In addition, overall factors such as staff sickness, supply chain shortages and the use of some facilities to develop additional in-patient capacity including high dependency unit and intensive treatment unit (ITU) resources may impact on normal pathways of care.NHS England and NHS Improvement ...
“Governing bodies and proprietors should be confident thatsystems are in placethat will identify children accessing ortryingto accessharmful and inappropriate content online.[Proposed statutory guidance] Since“guidance on procuring appropriate ICT”from the National Education Network NEN* is offered, it ...
(Nice), the NHS rationing body.Nice has been strongly criticised for unfairly blocking drugs it deems poor value for money, even when it is the last hope for cancer sufferers.But latest figures for 2012 show that even when it approves drugs as cost-effective, and issues positive guidance ...
the process can be broken down into four separate stages: analysing and planning (finding out the healthcare needs of the local population and mapping out a process for meeting them), designing pathways (organisation the healthcare system in a way that patients...
"Our first duty is to our patients, particularly those currently receiving hormone blocking treatment and we are working… to provide support for patients concerned about the impact on their care." According to the Tavistock, the Court has ruled that there will be a stay on implementation of it...
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Ms Pritchard has worked as chief operating officer under outgoing boss Lord Stevens, who finishes his tenure at the end of the week. She will take over during the third wave of COVID-19 and as the NHS faces an unprecedented backlog of care, with more than 5 million on the waiting list...
Help-seeking behaviour (HSB) is defined by Rickwood and Thomas [25] as any action of actively “seeking assistance, in the form of guidance, treatment or support from healthcare services or from trusted people in the community”. Mental health HSB is specified as “an adaptive coping process...
A consultation on the draft guidance is now under way. Henry Shelford, chief executive of ADHD UK, said: "Improving ADHD wait times in the UK is important - especially for children. "You can't rewind the clock on lost school years, and with childhood wait times of up to five years...
Names of the other members have not yet been disclosed, but patients, families, experts and other interested parties will be invited to comment on the draft specification. To inform the review of the wider service specification, NHS England has asked NICE to develop guidance that will help ident...