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Annual Health Checks Focus Group

NHS England are working together with the National Children’s Bureau as a data processor on a project for an Annual Health Checks (AHC) Focus Group, an initiative to explore the views of children and young people aged 14-19 years with a learning disability, and to support them to co-design communications and materials to improve the […]

NHS England publishes data on first consultants strike in a decade

Data on the first consultant strike is here: NHS England » Potential industrial action in the NHS Industrial action by consultants, over the recent 48 hours between 20 and 21 July, saw 65,557 rescheduled appointments and procedures. The cumulative total of rescheduled appointments and procedures over eight months of industrial action across the NHS now […]

168 GP appointments released a month after redesigning repeat prescription and medication review processes – Trent Meadows Medical Practice – Midlands

Case study Summary Trent Meadows Medical Practice in Staffordshire is made up of 7 GPs serving a patient population of over 11,800.  Repeat prescriptions and medication review processes were consuming a significant amount of time for GPs and the reception team.  To find ways to make the processes more efficient the team participated in the […]

Child Protection – Information Sharing system: Beyond technology

Hilary Garratt, NHS England Director of Nurse Commissioning and Health Improvement, reflects on the launch today of the Child Protection – Information Sharing system. We have been talking about developing shared information systems to protect vulnerable children well before I was a practicing health visitor back in 1989. It has now happened and I was delighted […]

NHS urges public to get essential vaccines despite coronavirus outbreak

NHS England is urging people to attend all regular vaccination appointments to prevent outbreaks of serious diseases and reduce pressure on the health service. The NHS is continuing to help people to manage illness linked to coronavirus, but is still urging parents to bring children forward for lifesaving jabs to stop killer diseases like measles […]

Finding the route to helping people with dementia

Professor Alistair Burns welcomes the launch of the Royal College of General Practitioners’ Dementia Roadmap: This innovation by the Royal College of General Practitioners will help colleagues in primary care support their patients diagnosed with dementia, their families and carers. A lot of excellent information about dementia exists but GPs are incredibly busy and certainly […]