Best interests assessors and other professionals expressed worry over a lack of professional oversight of decision making within care homes and weakening of people’s rights to challenge decisions
NHS England will again provide free flu vaccinations for social care staff who offer direct patient care this flu season. This year, the free jab will also be extended to include health and care staff in the voluntary managed hospice sector who offer direct patient care.
You have a duty of candour if you make a professional error. Here’s how to handle the situation. To read the full article, log in using your MPFT NHS OpenAthens details.
Service users and social care professionals discussed plans to replace the nearest relative role and give service users greater authority over care planning
Work in Morecambe Bay to improve health inequalities, including Mile a Day, greater mental health support within a school and healthy eating initiatives.
London’s Tavistock and Portman NHS Foundation Trust has created the post of clinical professor to help nurses develop research skills
‘Undertaking research is an area that we don’t develop during our clinical careers – and that’s to the huge detriment of ourselves and our profession,’ argues the new clinical professor in nursing at London’s Tavistock and Portman NHS Foundation Trust Fiona Nolan. To read the full article, log in using your MPFT NHS OpenAthens details.
There are about 850,000 people with dementia in the UK, and this is expected to rise to more than one million by 2025, according to the Alzheimer’s Society. To read the full article, log in using your MPFT NHS OpenAthens details.
Over the past few months, The King’s Fund has been exploring how eight of these ‘first wave’ ICSs have developed – who has been involved, what leadership and governance arrangements have been put in place, and how the ICSs have been working with national NHS bodies. Of course, one of the most important questions for our research was – what difference are ICSs making to services?
What should chief executives expect from their chair? The relationship is such a pivotal one and yet so complex – the chair is boss, challenger, supporter, colleague, arbiter, mentor and coach. The relationship is critical not just for the board, and the whole organisation, but in growing the great leaders we need and that the public pay for and deserve.
Health and Social Care Secretary Matt Hancock will set out plans at the NHS Expo in Manchester today to make the NHS an ecosytem for the best technology available. These will build on the £20 billion long-term plan to transform health and social care so it can improve treatment and deliver better care for patients.
A campaign aimed at cutting the huge waste of valuable NHS medicines across Staffordshire and Stoke-on-Trent is about to be launched. It has been estimated that around £6million of prescription medicines go unused across the area each year.
A Staffordshire town is to become one of only five areas of the country to test the official NHS app for patients that will be at the forefront of the digital healthcare revolution.
The announcement was made by Secretary of State for Health Matt Hancock today at the Health and Care Innovation Expo in Manchester.
Nurses need training to support children and their parents to manage attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) following a diagnosis, says the head of an advocacy group. To read the full article, log in using your MPFT NHS OpenAthens details.
Healthcare staff to get compulsory prevention training
Nurses in Scotland are to receive mandatory mental health and suicide prevention training as part of plans to reduce the suicide rate by 20%. To read the full article, log in using your MPFT NHS OpenAthens details.
A former army nurse reveals how a holiday charity helped him to cope with grief and work-related trauma
Military nurses, care assistants, medics, doctors and other healthcare professionals are witnesses to a high degree of trauma. We not only see battlefields, peacetime training, traumatic injuries and death, but we have to help the wounded and provide care from the point of contact through to the next level of triage and treatment or aftercare. To read the full article, log in using your MPFT NHS OpenAthens details.
This article explores the stress experience of a military family transitioning to civilian life. Methods included a critical literature review and reflections from the author’s own practice as a community psychiatric nurse working with military personnel, their spouses/partners and children. Increased stress among military families pre, during and post-transition is a potential trigger for the development of mental health problems. To read the full article, log in using your MPFT NHS OpenAthens details.
Positive behavioural support (PBS) is a non-aversive, preventive approach to behavioural management. The use of proactive approaches such as PBS has been suggested for multiple contexts and client groups as part of the restraint-reduction, ‘positive-and-safe’ agenda in the UK. PBS was introduced into a psychiatric intensive care unit (PICU) in a south Wales forensic service. However, the approach employed needed to be adapted to improve ‘goodness of fit’ for the PICU setting. This article describes the actions taken in the service to improve the fit of PBS in the PICU. To read the full article, log in using your MPFT NHS OpenAthens details.