At the 2024 Dementia Care Conference, Professor Farooq Khan, Clinical Lead for Dementia in the Midlands with NHS England, presented a detailed case study highlighting recent advances in the treatment of Alzheimer's disease.
The NHS is undergoing a significant transformation in leadership and workforce development to ensure a sustainable and inclusive healthcare system for the future. We welcomed key figures Joe Smith, Senior Policy Advisor at NHS England, and Caroline Chipperfield, Director of Leadership Development and Delivery, at the NHS Leadership Academy, to our UK Healthcare Workforce Conference 2024.
The CrowdStrike outage in July 2024 involved a significant disruption in their cybersecurity services, impacting various sectors reliant on their technology, including finance, healthcare, and government. This included 8.5 million Windows devices. This incident highlighted the critical need for thorough testing, robust crisis management, and effective communication to maintain trust and continuity in essential services. This article identifies key areas for public sector authorities to protect in their systems.
The 2022 NHS Staff Survey found that 44.8% of NHS staff felt unwell as a result of work-related stress. In this video Alexandra Bode-Tunji discusses the joy at work people strategy and the positive impacts the strategy has had on staff wellbeing in addition to patient care.
The NHS is responsible for around 20 million tonnes of carbon dioxide emissions annually. In this video, Dr Rita Issa, Research Fellow at UCL Institute for Global Health breaks down the NHS carbon footprint and discusses how change can be influenced at all levels of healthcare to improve sustainability.
NHS financial budgets are increasing broadly in line with a long-run historical average rather than the larger increases committed during the New Labour years. In this video, Siva Anandaciva, Chief Analyst of The Kings Fund, outlines the current state of NHS funding and finance, highlighting questions of liminality and dissonance and what this means for finance leaders.
Between April 2020 and 2021, NHS Hospital and Community Health Services received 83, 899 total complaints, 18% of these concerned issues with communication. Scott Deacon, Clinical Director of Outpatients for University Hospitals Bristol and Weston shares with us an infographic on the importance of listening in leadership within the NHS.
Clinical audit is a way to ensure healthcare is being provided in line with service standards and lets both care providers and patients know the service is doing well. John Grant-Casey is the Programme Manager - National Comparative Audit of Blood Transfusions at NHS Blood and Transplant. He shared with us what makes a good audit and why audits are a necessary aspect of improving patient experience.
In April 2021, there was a shortage of nearly 84,000 full-time equivalent staff across NHS England. Urgent action is required to tackle a vicious cycle of shortages and increased pressures on staff. Debbi Howard, Head of Clinical Education and Sarah Sumner, Clinical Director for Resuscitation, Simulation and Skills at Warrington and Halton Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust discuss how preceptorship programmes can help improve staff retention in trusts.
Almost 50,000 deaths in the UK are caused by Sepsis every year. The West of England AHSN is ‘Spreading the NEWS2’ to help healthcare professionals make the right judgements and save lives.
Covid-19 has shaken up health and social care, possibly forever. The CQC has been analysing healthcare during the impact of pandemic, coming up with a dynamic new strategy in an attempt to future-proof care providers in the event of another crisis.
Britain’s ageing population have complex needs, which the health and social care system is adapting to meet. Creating integrated care communities to reduce hospitalisations is key to this new strategy.