The changes to the current GP Contract, which was agreed nearly 15 years ago, are being looked at to meet the changing needs of a growing and ageing population and increased use of digital services locally.
Today NHS England is inviting views from GPs, patients and healthcare professionals on both documents.
The study, which looked at German school entry exam data, also shows that immigrant children and children from disadvantaged backgrounds are less likely to attend childcare at age three.
The researchers, from the University of York, University College London, and Queen Mary, University of London, say, however, that the same universal childcare, only has a modest impact on the school readiness of children from advantaged backgrounds.
A new sugar tax introduced on soft drinks in Chile has been effective in reducing consumption of sugary drinks, new research carried out in the country has revealed.
However, the international research team, led by academics from the University of York, say although consumption may have dropped, it may not be enough to reduce socioeconomic inequalities in diet-related health.
The British Medical Association (BMA) and NHS Employers have agreed a joint statement regarding a review of the 2016 Terms and Conditions of Service for Doctors and Dentists in Training.
Suffering in a suicidal crisis includes feelings such as despair, loneliness, anxiety, fear, shame, guilt and hopelessness. This study highlights the experiences of patients in the aftermath of suicide attempts. The research question was, what do suicidal patients see as meaningful help in care and treatment situations?
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The Education and Skills Funding Agency (ESFA) has clarified that apprenticeship funding can be used to cover the cost of clinical placements for nursing associates.
Nursing associate apprentices are required to undertake mandatory clinical placements in settings other than the primary place of employment, and up to £2,500 can be used to cover the costs attributed to this.
The General Medical Council (GMC) has published an updated version of Outcomes for Graduates, which sets out the professional knowledge, skills, values and behaviours that new UK medical graduates must know and be able to demonstrate.
The Mental Capacity (Amendment) Bill was introduced to the House of Lords on Tuesday 3 July and seeks to replace the current system known as ‘Deprivation of Liberty Safeguards’ (DoLs).
DoLs is an assessment currently carried out on people who do not have the mental capacity to make their own decisions about their care, for example because they are living with dementia. It was criticised by a 2017 Law Commission review for being too complex and bureaucratic.
The government has now developed a new system, known as ‘Liberty Protection Safeguards’, which will become law through the bill.
Understanding the differential diagnosis between moisture-associated skin damage (MASD) and pressure ulcers (PU) ensures appropriate management and interventions are instigated at the earliest opportunity.
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Blog post. When you’re in the middle of a gruelling long-distance run and the pain and fatigue is becoming overwhelming, an obvious strategy is to try to force the subjective experience out of your mind, for example by thinking nice thoughts or focusing on the environment around you. The trouble is, as the physical struggle intensifies, the distraction strategy becomes harder and harder to pull off. According to a new paper in Motivation and Emotion, an alternative approach that holds promise is to practice “cognitive reappraisal” – don’t ignore the sensations as such, but try to view them in a dispassionate way, as if you are a scientist studying running or a journalist reporting on the experience.
State-of-the-art X-Ray equipment is set to be fitted at Ludlow Community Hospital in the next few weeks after a key breakthrough in talks.
The new equipment, which was bought with money raised by the League of Friends to Ludlow Hospital, had been sitting in boxes at the hospital in south Shropshire while discussions continued with NHS Property Services, owners of the building, over clearance for it to be installed
Richard Griffith, Senior Lecturer in Health Law at Swansea University, considers recent case law developments relating to the deprivation of a minor's liberty in hospital and other care settings
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After more than a week of blue skies and recording-breaking temperatures, health leaders in Stoke-on-Trent and Staffordshire want to make sure you're enjoying the good weather, but not to exhaustion.
Open access. Several countries have national policies and programmes requiring hospitals to use quality and safety (QS) indicators. To present an overview of these indicators, hospital-wide QS (HWQS) dashboards are designed. There is little evidence how these dashboards are developed. The challenges faced to develop these dashboards in Dutch hospitals were retrospectively studied.
The Prevention of Hospital Infections by Intervention and Training (PROHIBIT) project included a cluster-randomised, stepped wedge, controlled study to evaluate multiple strategies to prevent catheter-related bloodstream infection. We report an in-depth investigation of the main barriers, facilitators and contextual factors relevant to successfully implementing these strategies in European acute care hospitals.