Yorkshire Ambulance Service has successfully implemented a pilot scheme across it Patient Transport Services (PTS).
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Yorkshire Ambulance Service has successfully implemented a pilot scheme across it Patient Transport Services (PTS).
Britain’s insecure hospitals are presenting terrorists planning a dirty bomb attack with a bonus second wave target. Terrorists detonating a chemical, biological, radioactive or nuclear explosive (CBRNE) device in one location could easily follow up the first attacks with a follow up bomb in anyone of the UKs hospitals that have been described as ‘wide open’ by security chiefs. Continue reading British hospitals present easy terrorist target for CBRNE attacks warns former Athens Olympic security chief
London, UK, 28 June 2012: Pressure to cut costs in the NHS will have a severe impact on both patient care and the patient experience, according to an independent survey of senior NHS IT directors commissioned by IT services company 2e2. In the survey of 100 IT directors, 87% said they were under pressure to cut costs in order to achieve the Government’s aim to save £20 billion from the NHS budget by 2014-15. Despite this translating into a 4% per year saving across the NHS as a whole, IT departments are being hit harder. Each needs to make an average saving of 10% in 2012 and 12% each subsequent year to 2015. Continue reading IT spending cuts of 12% per year will severely impact on patient care, say senior NHS IT professionals
Some of the UK’s leading figures from the nutrition world will be taking part in a special information day in Wrexham on 3rd July (Wrexham Maelor Hospital). Continue reading Welsh Dietitians Leading the Way!
As the demise of Primary Care Trusts approaches, the future face of community health provision was demonstrated in West Midlands town Sandwell this week, when social enterprise Mytime Active showed how it can effectively deliver 23 integrated health services in the local community. Continue reading MYTIME ACTIVE SHOWS FUTURE FACE OF UK COMMUNITY HEALTH PROVISION
Social enterprise Mytime Active has won two new community health contracts from NHS health commissioners in Wandsworth and a brand new one in Lewisham, securing its position as first choice for child weight management services. Continue reading MYTIME ACTIVE LEADS WAY IN CHILD WEIGHT MANAGEMENT SERVICES
In as little as the last 25 years, obesity in the UK has increased 400 per cent, pushing the issue to the forefront of the healthcare debate. It has become a very topical subject for the current administration, which is under increasing pressure to reverse a trend which could result in a third of British adults being obese by 2020. Continue reading Bariatric transfer ' behind the scenes of a specialist health service
Men with prostate cancer are at risk of being left behind those with other common cancers thanks to a spate of recent moves by the National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence (NICE), The Prostate Cancer Charity has warned. Continue reading Charity warns 'short sighted' NICE risks compromising care of men with prostate cancer
An ambulance service has been criticised for it response time in getting to an accident. The North West Ambulance Service has been criticised over its response time in getting an ambulance to a young woman who had been hit by a car in Oldham, Greater Manchester last week. Continue reading Ambulance service response time criticised
A British manufacturer has teamed up with a nursery school owner to raise the standard of hand hygiene in educational settings after it was revealed millions of school days are missed each year due to avoidable illness. Continue reading Millions of lost school days in the UK could be avoided
For an essential public body as old and as large as the NHS, reform is inevitable. Whilst this doesn’t mean such reforms are ever uniformly palatable, they are a fact of life and crucial if the NHS is to prosper ,especially given the present economic climate. Continue reading NHS reforms and the future built environment
The recent resignation of Christine Connelly as the Department of Health’s Chief Information Officer (CIO) should not have come as a surprise. Anyone who has followed the progress of £11.4-billion Nation Programme for IT transformation (NPfIT) will be acutely aware of quotes including -no grounds for confidence, -not value for money, -far below expectations, -a damage limitation exercise that leapt from the pages of the National Audit Office’s report into this ill-starred IT colossus. Continue reading NPfIT ' put us out of its misery
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