by Sam | 25 Jul 2014 | Uncategorized
The Guardian has report on Freedom of Information requests by Shadow Public Health Minister Luciana Berger to England’s 211 CCGs have shown that 72 out of 142 CCGs which responded spend less than 10% of their budget on mental health services, while noting significant...
by Sam | 17 Jul 2014 | Uncategorized
The King’s Fund has published its Quarterly Monitoring Report on NHS performance. It notes that, in its fourth year of effectively no real increase in funding and undiminished urgency to generate more care to meet growing demands, the NHS is under huge pressure...
by Sam | 15 Jul 2014 | Uncategorized
The National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) has issued new guidelines on safe staffing levels for nurses. NICE said checks should be carried out if there are more than eight patients to one nurse on a ward in the day. The new guidelines identify a...
by Sam | 8 Jul 2014 | Outsourcing, Politics
The Department of Health has published the outcome of its consultation period on the Duty of Candour. As part of the publication, the Department also clarified what penalties would be put in place for providers that breach new fundamental standards of care, and...
by Sam | 24 Jun 2014 | Uncategorized
A fifth of hospital trusts in England may be covering up mistakes, a government review suggests. The analysis of reporting incidents shows 29 out of 141 trusts were not registering the expected number of safety incidents. The review said this may be a sign of a...
