This week patient and carer advocate, Tommy Whitelaw, will share some inspirational stories with nursing, midwifery and care staff at Barts Health NHS Trust highlighting the huge impact they have for people and patients in their care. The chief nurse previews his visit: Many will be familiar with the fantastic work of Thomas Whitelaw, known […]
At 70 years old, I hope to feel much the same as I do now – but maybe with a few more wrinkles, certainly less hair, the scars of some of the things I’ve lived through and, hopefully, the resilience to cope with the inevitable aches and pains that come with ageing. Who knows how […]
A GP who represents primary care providers on Gloucestershire’s ICS Delivery Board, discusses the county’s innovative social prescribing initiative which enables primary care professionals to refer people to a range of local, non-clinical services: For many people who access the NHS, it could be that the answer lies not in medical treatment, but in community […]
The NHS is working on a plan setting out our ambitions for improvement over the next decade, and how we will meet them over the five years of the recently announced funding settlement. Over the last few weeks, initial conversations have been taking place internally and externally to establish the scope of the plan, and […]
In the last of a series of blogs around World Sepsis Day, the lead sepsis nurse at East and North Hertfordshire NHS Trust describes how this serious condition causes the body to attack its own tissues and organs which can lead to lasting damage or even death: Sadly, for many people the first thing they […]
Today’s publication of the new Children and Young People Secure Estate National Partnership Agreement ensures that there is a more fully integrated approach to the commissioning and delivery of excellent health services for some of the most vulnerable people in the community. NHS England’s Director of Health & Justice, Armed Forces and Sexual Assault Services […]
The NHS is working on a plan setting out our ambitions for improvement over the next decade, and how we will meet them over the five years of the recently announced funding settlement. Over the last few weeks, initial conversations have been taking place internally and externally to establish the scope of the plan, and […]
