With less than a month until Christmas, the NHS today appealed to parents to take up the free flu vaccination for children to curb infection over the holiday season when family get-togethers spread the infection, putting grandparents and other vulnerable relatives at risk. Health officials say that without the flu vaccination children are more likely […]
Case study summary Parkview Surgery in Cleckheaton has three GPs and one nurse practitioner, serving over 7000 registered patients. Document management was taking up a huge amount of clinicians’ time at the surgery. Struggling to recruit new GPs and relying on locums who were reluctant to deal with post, the practice team recognised it had […]
People with a learning disability often have poorer physical and mental health than other people. An annual health check can improve people’s health by spotting problems earlier. Watch these films to find out how great annual health checks and health actions plans are helping Charlotte and Harshi to keep healthy and stay well. Annual health […]
The NHS has to make it as easy for disabled people to use health services as it is for people who are not disabled. This is called making reasonable adjustments. These could be things like: making sure there is wheelchair access in hospitals providing easy read appointment letters giving someone a priority appointment if they […]
The NHS Diabetes Programme recognises that face to face interventions do not always work for everyone – and digital technologies offer new opportunities to improve patient experience and outcomes and deliver services in a more efficient way, reducing the burden on clinicians and the public. The digital workstream seeks to establish the evidence base for […]
What is an Information Standard? What is a Fundamental Information Standard? What is the scope of this Information Standard for Sexual Orientation Monitoring? What question will be used to monitor sexual orientation? When will the standard come into effect? Is the Fundamental Information Standard for Sexual Orientation Monitoring mandatory? In the SOM specification it says: […]
A doctor who retraced the voyage of Captain Bligh, cast adrift following the infamous Mutiny on the Bounty, is the latest guest speaker to sign up for Expo 2017. Dr Luke Kane, a trainee GP in London, became famous earlier this year after appearing in the Channel 4 documentary “Mutiny” in which a crew of […]
John Trevains was recently appointed to the role of Head of Learning Disability and Mental Health at NHS England. He explains why Annual Health Checks for people with a learning disability can play such an important role in ensuring they get the right care from the NHS at the right time. I’m regularly struck by […]
NHS England has today (Thursday 3 August) announced the start of a pioneering implementation trial to provide HIV prevention drugs to people at high risk of HIV infection. From September, pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) will now be provided by the NHS through the initial three year trial to an estimated 10,000 people, in what will be […]
A National Senior Manager for the New Care Models programme explains why her mum drives her passion for improving care. I frequently use my mum as a frame of reference when thinking about what multispecialty community providers (MCPs) are doing to improve care and support for patients and communities. As a “young” 74-year-old she has, […]