The Institute of Health Visiting (iHV) publishes the findings from the largest UK survey of frontline health visitors working with … Read More “More babies and young children are missing out”
Two large GP surgeries in County Down are to be taken over by health authorities after talks failed to find … Read More “GP surgeries to be taken over by health trust”
£150 million will be used to build 150 new facilities to support mental health urgent and emergency care services. Anyone … Read More “Mental health services boosted”
Core Competency #63 – Disciplinary and grievance Will monitor time-keeping, absence etc. for junior staff. May operate procedures for junior … Read More “My Competencies”
NHS England has reminded GP practice teams of the procedure to follow when patients contact them needing to access Covid antiviral … Read More “GP reception staff advised”
This letter follows the recent government announcement regarding focusing funding on discharging patients from acute beds to improve patient care and … Read More “Discharge funding”
About 15 million more people in England could be prescribed daily cholesterol-lowering statin pills to cut their risk of heart … Read More “Consider statins for millions more people”
With the cost of living crisis adding to already widening health inequalities, the RPS paper aims to help pharmacists and … Read More “Pharmacy teams to tackle health inequalities”
Core Competency #62 – Employment practice Has awareness of importance. May have limited involvement in monitoring policies against practice/external guidelines … Read More “My Competencies”
Integrated care boards (ICBs) putting in some special measures to help GPs cope with extreme winter pressures are facing resistance … Read More “Local commissioners to suspend QOF”