An Experience of Care Lead for Acute Care discusses why it is vital for people not to be admitted to hospital if it can be avoided: Unlike many people in the last year none of my family have needed to visit a hospital Emergency Department. How lucky are we?! On average 67000 people went to Emergency […]
Leading the busiest ambulance service in the country is a challenge and a privilege. London is a world-class, vibrant city where anything can – and does – happen. My ambulance crews attend around 1.2 million incidents each year. We also handle millions of 999 and 111 calls. These figures are growing. How we respond to […]
A range of clinicians such as nurses, GPs, pharmacists and paramedics now work within NHS 111 to provide clinical advice, treatment and reassurance. Here Nicola Gaskell, an NHS 111 Senior Clinical Advisor gives us an insight into her day. The first call of the day is a man with a rash. I complete an assessment […]
When we think of volunteers in the NHS we often think of the incredible people who give their time and energy to running tea trolleys in a hospital. Invaluable though this is, it doesn’t even scratch the surface of the contribution that volunteers make across the whole of the health system in supporting integrated care […]
The National Director of the Elective and Emergency Care explains how the NHS will deliver on the urgent and emergency care objectives in the Long Term Plan The Long Term Plan published in January this year outlined the NHS’ ambitious commitment to continue the transformation of urgent and emergency care services. Over the next 10 […]
Dr Yasara Naheed, Clinical Director for Burnley East Primary Care Network discusses designing new frailty models as part of the NHS England Population Health Management (PHM) programme: In Burnley in Lancashire a large proportion of our patients live with moderate frailty and we wanted to come up with new solutions to improve their quality of […]
On Wednesday 4 September, I was fortunate enough to attend the first day of Health and Care Innovation Expo 2019 to join the panel discussion “Life and Likes: mental health in the online world” to share my negative and positive experiences as a social media user and how it has impacted how I view my […]
