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Compared with normal care, telehealth can achieve better and faster health outcomes, better adherence to medication, and increased productivity The debate around remote care frequently stalls on the matter of expensive or complicated equipment, but often people have all the technology they need sitting...
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Charities have been involved in providing and improving health and wellbeing services since well before the creation of the NHS Earlier this week Norman Lamb announced the government's ambition to make integrated care the norm in the NHS in the next five years. In his speech, he referred to the example...
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Norman Lamb says health and social care will be integrated by 2018 but underestimates the investment required There is a great deal to welcome in the announcement from health minister Norman Lamb that there will be big push to integrate health and social care, but the road ahead is longer, more difficult...
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Families are the biggest providers of care, yet carers can find themselves cut out of decision-making and bounced between different bureaucracies Caring is a fact of life. Whether a partner falls ill, or a parent needs support as they grow older, or a child is born with a disability – it will affect...
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Mobile devices can reinvigorate frontline staff by giving them more time to focus on patient care Recent figures released by the Royal College of Nursing suggest that on average British nurses spend 17.3% of their time on paperwork and clerical tasks instead of caring for patients. This rounds-up to...
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Cost-effective, person-centred, co-ordinated care requires support for local health systems so they can deliver the right care in the right settings, and develop new ways of working In recent years, the health and social care sectors have both faced a series of unprecedented challenges. These have included...
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Most parts of the NHS are only paying lip service to patient engagement, recently hailed as the 'next blockbuster drug' As healthcare systems the world over continue to groan under the weight of rising expectations, ageing populations and squeezed finances, the search for viable long-term solutions...
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Whistleblowing doctors, who were chased out of their jobs, should be invited back to change the culture of the NHS In his first reaction to the Francis report on Mid Staffs, Dr Mark Porter, who chairs the council of the British Medical Association (BMA), made all the right noises: "I have been profoundly...
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Mobile phones won't take on the role of doctors but they will become more widely used in diagnosis and treatment, so those in the sector should look to develop their own apps Last year was heralded as the year of DIY health – in 2012 patients looked increasingly to diagnose themselves through various...
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The Care Quality Commission's annual inpatient survey suggests that the negative press is by no means all justified Judging by recent media coverage, you might be forgiven for thinking that the NHS has become a patient's nightmare, with doctors and nurses routinely mistreating or ignoring those...
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How can the NHS move forward from the current situation where it is besieged by the Francis report and cuts? Post the Health and Social Care Act 2012 and the economic climate, providing affordable and safe healthcare is now one of the biggest challenges we face. The NHS is always changing and over time...
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Saving money by appointing joint, junior or inexperienced leaders will undermine local public health Giving responsibility for public health to local authorities, together with a ring-fenced budget to manage it, is obviously the right thing to do. Councils used to have a role in health back in the 1970s;...
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Despite myths that health budgets are growing, NHS spending will be cut as funds are redirected towards social care The NHS is in danger of being crushed between a funding cut and political inertia over the need to reconfigure services. While the outcome of the chancellor's spending review will no...
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Ensuring that shared decision making becomes the norm is a challenge – but there are already examples of it working A recent OPM evaluation of the Health Foundation's |Magic (Making Good Decisions in Collaboration) programme identified important lessons about how clinical teams can take the practical...
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What can opponents do now that the regulations have been approved? And so it came to pass. Despite near universal professional opposition and strong political pressure, the Section 75 regulations that explicitly open up the NHS to competition law were approved in the House of Lords last week. A three...