Betsi Cadwaladr hospital infection rates ‘too high’
…health board has hospitals in Wrexham, Bangor and Bodelwyddan. In her report, Ms Harris said: “Rates of infection in BCUHB remain too high and the health board is committed to…
…health board has hospitals in Wrexham, Bangor and Bodelwyddan. In her report, Ms Harris said: “Rates of infection in BCUHB remain too high and the health board is committed to…
…budget. In a new briefing published today, the think tank suggests that key waiting time targets may need to be reviewed and the commitment to deliver seven-day services revisited, if…
A multi-billion pound tender has been issued for one of the most advanced national vanguard sites, in what is believed to be a first. Dudley Clinical Commissioning Group published a…
…Hunt talked about encouraging nurses (and doctors) into leadership roles and creating a route to enable nurses to go into advanced practice (“and beyond”). He also announced his plan to…
Studies have linked overworking with an increase in patient safety incidents. Nursing staff are being told to “call time” on overworking, the practice of staying past shift end times to…
…it was released, the nationals and local media were primed to report on the ‘worst performing’ individual practices, with league tables and all. Full article in Pulse, 11 January 2023…
The word compassion in all Latin derived languages combines the prefix, with (com) and the root, to bear or suffering (passio). For a doctor and all health professionals this is…
…amounts to just £30,000 per practice, but also includes counter-productive and ill-informed plans to ‘name and shame’ surgeries failing to deliver enough face-to-face appointments and the threat to send in…
The word compassion in all Latin derived languages combines the prefix, with (com) and the root, to bear or suffering (passio). For a doctor and all health professionals this is…
…commissioning. From 2018-19 the area may move to “fewer commissioning organisations” across Northamptonshire to ensure “sustainability” of the CCGs. It added that there was “potential” for a “single commissioning organisation”…