Tag Archives: hospital
NHS reveals burden on emergency services
In 2009-10, 39,000 people who used A&E were not given any treatment.
Published on Sunday 25 September 2011 13:32
PEOPLE attending county hospitals when they did not need to cost tax payers £3.4m last year, it has been revealed.
More than 65,000 people left A&E departments at Kettering General Hospital and Northampton General Hospital without receiving any treatment.
A similar problem is people dialling 999 inappropriately, and health officials are trying to educate residents about when they should dial 999 or use A&E and when they should use other facilities.
RCN: NHS healthcare assistants’ training ‘unacceptable’
22 September 2011 Last updated at 11:55
“This happens in some care homes and domiciliary care too.
Peter Carter said healthcare assistants were employed to help nurses with basic tasks like washing and feeding, but ended up doing much more.
FREE social networking website backed by the NHS
Help at hand for the housebound
- by Helen Rae, Evening Chronicle
- Sep 19 2011
HEALTH Reporter Helen Rae explains how an NHS backed website is improving care for patients.
A FREE social networking website backed by the NHS is improving care for housebound patients and their carers.
Justvisiting.com is a not-for-profit website which is built around a secure interactive message board which creates online visiting rooms where hospital and housebound patients and their carers can meet up and talk to their friends and family.
