IS THE WARD CAMERA THE ENEMY OF AN INFORMATION SHARING NHS?

Headlines: November 21st, 2014

Mark Winstone discusses how technology is dealing with a growing problem in the NHS: photography management.

Hospitals often need to take photographs of patients to record injuries or the progress of specific conditions, e.g. of injuries, severe rashes, a nasty bed sore and so on. Historically these images were taken and maintained by in-house photography teams with their own-on-site darkroom, but in the age of the digital camera such facilities are being wound down.

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PROJECT TO GET INSIGHTS INTO LIVES OF PEOPLE WITH MENTAL HEATH DIFFICULTIES

Headlines: November 20th, 2014

A new online project is calling on people living with mental health difficulties to blog about their lives.

People signing up to A Day in the Life will be invited to share their experiences of what makes their mental health better and what makes it worse by submitting a 700 word blog on set days as part of the year-long project. Bloggers are being asked to write about the same days. There will be further start dates starting in winter 2014, spring 2015 and summer 2015.

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WATCHDOG CONCERNED ABOUT ABILITY OF COUNCILS TO COPE WITH FURTHER CUTS

Headlines: November 19th, 2014

Over a quarter of the larger councils had to make unplanned reductions in service spend to deliver their 2013-14 budgets and there is concern about their capacity to make the further savings that are required.

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MANAGEMENT OF HEALTH AND SOCIAL CARE INTEGRATION PROGRAMME CRITICISED BY WATCHDOG

Headlines: November 18th, 2014

The programme to join up local health and social care service suffered from poor quality planning and preparation. Consequently it did not meet expectations.
T
he National Audit Office report on the programme to improve care in the community and lessen pressures on health services highlights its failure to deliver better services for older and disabled people. The aim is to keep them out of hospital and avoid long hospital stays. However, early local plans for the Better Care Fund, which will pool £5.3 billion of existing NHS and local authority funding in 2015-16, did not meet Ministers’ expectations or generate the level of savings the Government expected and all plans had to be resubmitted. Although the Government’s early planning assumption was that the Fund would save the NHS £1 billion in 2015-16, current plans forecast at least £314 million of savings for the NHS.

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MORE PUBLIC SECTOR CUTS ON THE WAY AS STARTING PAY FALLS

Headlines: November 17th, 2014

Public sector hiring intentions for the third quarter of 2014 have fallen sharply and starting salaries have either fallen or remained static.

These finding come from the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development in its quarterly Labour Market Outlook.

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JOB SATISFACTION RISING BUT MANY CAREER EXPECTATIONS NOT MET

Headlines: November 5th, 2014

Levels of job satisfaction have increased over the last 12 months, rising by four percentage points to +44. But one in three employees report that their career progression to date has failed to meet their expectations.

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NEW CENTRE OPENS TO FIND OUT HOW TO IMPROVE WELLBEING

Headlines: October 30th, 2014

The ‘What Works Centre for Wellbeing’ is the latest addition to the ‘What Works Network’, which was launched by the Government last year to improve public services through evidence-based policy and practice.

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REVOLVING DOOR CLOSES FOR HIGH EARNERS IN PUBLIC SECTOR

Headlines: October 29th, 2014

Highly paid administrators from across the public sector who take a redundancy payment then return to the same part of the public sector within a year will need to repay the taxpayer under plans announced by HM Treasury.

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MENTAL HEALTH SUFFERERS TO GET NEW DEAL FROM POLICE

Headlines: October 28th, 2014

The Home Office has launched an initiative to change the culture of police when dealing with people experiencing mental health problems. This will involve replacing handcuffs and cells with medical experts, a bed and proper healthcare.

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WATCHDOG CRITICISES RESPONSE TO RISING BENEFIT FRAUD

Headlines: October 20th, 2014

The Department for Work & Pensions should have increased its focus on Housing Benefit fraud and error sooner, according to a report from the National Audit Office.

The total level of benefit overpayment due to fraud and error has increased to an estimated £1.4 billion in 2013-14 from £980 million in 2010-11. The overpayment is 5.8% of spending on this benefit.

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