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News, comment, blogposts and tweets across the sector Clare Horton Claire Burke Sarah Johnson
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No two days are the same working for a trust with a £100m turnover and 500,000 patient encounters My day is bookended with routine but most days are different, as you'd expect with a £100m+ turnover and 500,000 patient encounters. I'm from Lancashire, and Essex has not taken me from my roots...
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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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News, comment, blogposts and tweets across the sector Clare Horton Claire Burke Sarah Johnson
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News, comment, blogposts and tweets across the sector Sarah Johnson Clare Horton Claire Burke
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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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News, comment, blogposts and tweets across the sector Clare Horton Claire Burke Sarah Johnson
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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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Sponsored Q&A: how can higher education better prepare students for a patient-centered NHS? Join our panel of experts on Friday 17 May 12-2pm BST The inquiry into the unnecessary deaths of hundreds of patients at Mid Staffordshire NHS Foundation Trust earlier this year, has left an unsettling nervousness...
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News, comment, blogposts and tweets across the sector Clare Horton Claire Burke Sarah Johnson
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News, comment, blogposts and tweets across the sector Clare Horton Claire Burke Sarah Johnson
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The National Institute for Health and Care Excellence's director of health and social care discusses meetings, jargon and change Describe your role in one sentence: Over the years it's been one of a midwife – bringing new initiatives into the world of Nice . At the moment this includes establishing...
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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...