Category Archives: health

A&E crisis leads to surge in cancelled operations

June 2, 2013   Carers, health, hospital

Doctors raise alarm as surgery is hit, after figures show cancellations have reached a 10-year high

The Observer,

 

More than 220 operations a day were cancelled with less than 24 hours’ notice during the first three months of 2013

More planned operations were cancelled in the first few months of this year than for any similar period in almost a decade, it has been revealed, as senior surgeons warn that the crisis in accident and emergency is cascading through the NHS.

More than 220 operations a day were cancelled with less than 24 hours’ notice during the first three months of 2013, official figures show. A similar scale of cancellations of elective surgery has not been seen since 2004-5. NHS England figures further reveal that the proportion of those patients not treated within 28 days of being turned away from operating tables has crept up to 5.6% – a four-year high.

The number of urgent operations cancelled every month has also doubled under the coalition, from 172 in August 2010 to 401 in April this year.

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Whose Shoes? – Making It Real. Launch event

May 29, 2013   Alzheimer’s, Carers, health, mental health, social workers

WhoseShoes

Making it real, making real people have real voices

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=myd8yU5raEc[/youtube]

Launch of the new electronic tool to help you engage all your key
people in the transformation of health and social care.
‘Making It Real’ is a co-produced approach to personalisation spelling out what it really means to engage with the ‘personalisation agenda’ and help people have choice and control over their own support needs and a good quality of life.

http://nutshellcomms.co.uk/

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Dementia care given priority in new NHS training guidelines

May 28, 2013   Alzheimer’s, Carers, dementia, health, Older care

Department of Health training blueprint promises to give NHS education unprecedented focus and importance

Andrew Sparrow
The Guardian, Tuesday 28 May 2013

Tackling dementia and encouraging medical students to become GPs are among the priorities under a new framework for NHS training.

At least half the number of medical students must go on to become GPs, and much more should be done to increase awareness of dementia, an NHS training blueprint will announce today.

Getting more nurses to train in the community is also a priority under a new framework for NHS training.

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