We are reviewing and updating these webpages to reflect the current work of the maternity and neonatal programme. We want to reduce harm leading to avoidable admissions to neonatal units for babies born at or after 37 weeks. We’ve identified that over 20% of admissions of full term babies to neonatal units could be avoided. […]
The Daily Telegraph reported on Friday 21 August ‘hospital admissions for COVID inflated‘. This article was wrong and misleading. It is completely untrue to suggest or imply that there has been any ambiguity in how COVID admissions have been recorded in England. Throughout the pandemic, hospitals in England have been asked to record for operational […]
Teenagers accounted for more than 1,000 admissions to hospital as a result of assaults with a knife or sharp object last year, NHS figures show. Admissions for all injuries caused by an assault with knife or other sharp objects have gone up by almost a third since 2012-13, from 3,849 to 4,986 last year. However, […]
This case study shows how thousands of Londoners could benefit from a new scheme by London Ambulance Service, which will send a specialist nurse and a paramedic with crews to an emergency mental health call.
Case study summary Thousands of Londoners experiencing a mental health crisis will be sent a specialist nurse and a paramedic in a car on blue lights. By responding together, the specialist ambulance crew is expected to reduce mental health hospital admissions from 58,000 to 30,000 per year once it is rolled out across the […]
Thousands of Londoners experiencing a mental health crisis will be sent a specialist nurse and a paramedic in a car on blue lights. By responding together, the specialist ambulance crew is expected to reduce mental health hospital admissions from 58,000 to 30,000 per year once it is rolled out across the capital. The London Ambulance […]
Improved mental health care for patients with physical ailments has reduced demand for GP appointments and cut hospital admissions by three quarters in a pilot scheme as part of a programme of new services that NHS England is rolling out across the country. Since 2016, the NHS has begun testing new services which integrate mental […]
This letter is to NHS England Heads of Primary Care and CCGs with full delegation and has guidance on how to manage the process for non-achievement of avoiding unplanned admissions in 2016/17.