A potentially life threatening TikTok trend, involving tiny magnets that can be easily swallowed, has triggered the NHS to call for a ban. These tiny magnetic balls are widely sold as creative toys, with a recent TikTok craze seeing them used as fake facial piercings by teenagers. The viral prank sees people place two magnetic […]
More than a million children and young people will have access to mental health support at school, as the NHS rapidly expands services to help deal with the huge disruption caused by coronavirus and lockdown. From this year, teams of experts are offering support to children experiencing anxiety, depression, and other common mental health issues. […]
NHS Chief Sir Simon Stevens has today announced the NHS and its staff will step up action to tackle the climate “health emergency” this year, helping prevent illness, reducing pressure on A&Es, and saving tens of thousands of lives. The initiative follows the launch of the Climate Assembly UK this week, which is discussing how the […]
NHS chief Simon Stevens has today (Thursday October 10th) announced that a new taskforce will be set up to improve current specialist children and young people’s inpatient mental health, autism and learning disability services in England. The NHS Long Term Plan sets out an ambitious programme to transform mental health services, autism and learning disability; […]
The NHS has appointed its first clinical director for violence reduction to help prevent stabbings and other violent crime. Martin Griffiths, a lead surgeon at Barts Health NHS Trust in London, has spent the past decade visiting schools to lecture on the dangers of carrying weapons as well as saving lives on the operating table. […]
In the second of a series of intensely personal blogs, NHS England’s Maternity Transformation Programme Manager and mum-to-be throws the spotlight on her work as she records key stages of her own pregnancy: I’m now comfortably into my second trimester and finding I have got a bit of my mojo back! I’ve stepped up my […]
Over 12 million people will soon benefit from better joined up NHS and social care as four more areas, covering four and a half million extra people, are today (Thurs) given more control to improve local services. NHS England chief Simon Stevens and Ian Dalton, head of NHS Improvement, have called on the NHS to […]
Simon Stevens, Chief Executive of NHS England, today thanked staff who are caring for patients over Christmas, and for all their work over a “pressurised year” for the NHS. On Christmas day alone an estimated 97,000 nurses and 53,000 nursing assistants will be working in hospitals whilst 12,000 midwives are expected to welcome around 1,400 […]
The NHS Five Year Forward View pointed out that one in four of us will experience mental health problems, and mental illness is the single largest cause of disability. Yet mental health services have for several decades been the ‘poor relation’ compared to acute hospital services for physical conditions. Fortunately there is now good evidence […]
NHS England Chief Executive Simon Stevens will today announce that hospital bed closures arising from proposed major service reconfigurations will in future only be supported where a new test is met that ensures patients will continue to receive high quality care. From 1 April, local NHS organisations will have to show that significant hospital bed […]