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| Don’t hold your breath waiting for anyone to be held responsible and being ‘Made to Pay’? |
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The Independent investigation into maternity & neonatal services at University Hospitals Morecambe Bay NHS Foundation Trust published has published its report. The investigation was established by Secretary of State for Health, Jeremy Hunt, in September 2013. It was set up in response to a series of maternal & neonatal deaths at the Trust between January 2004 & June 2013. The report describes failures at almost every level. It found 20 instances of significant or major failings of care at Furness General Hospital, associated with 3 maternal deaths & the deaths of 16 babies. It concludes that different clinical care would have been expected to prevent the death of 1 mother & 11 babies. There are some actions that will be implemented immediately & the government will examine the other recommendations in detail before providing a full response. |
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DH: Investigation report into Morecambe Bay published NHS England announces national review of maternity care One midwife to each woman during birth, says NICE in safe staffing advice NICE confirms midwife-led care during labour is safest for women with straightforward pregnancies ScotGov: Morecambe Bay Investigation - Response to findings on maternity & neonatal services Sir Bruce to lead review of professional codes of practice for health professionals CQC: Another rotten apple in the NHS barrel? Will it be enough to really change the culture of NHS management? (3rd item) Hospitals in Morecambe Bay to get extra support to improve services University Hospitals of Morecambe Bay NHS Foundation Trust put into special measures CQC publishes follow up report of investigation into University Hospitals of Morecambe Bay NHS FT Maternity services at University Hospitals of Morecambe Bay NHS FT must improve says regulator |
| Technology can help analyse historical health data to ‘locate’ problem areas |
| BCS Health, part of BCS, The Chartered Institute for IT, is calling for Trusts that have put much effort into applying to the Technology Fund to significantly forward their informatics strategy, not to lay it to waste, but to create a sustainable & financed informatics strategy from their budgets. The call comes in response to reports that NHS England’s second technology fund has been cut by nearly £200m, with only one-fifth of bidders to receive any money. |
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NHS Code4Health programme will improve digital literacy for clinicians BCS publishes comprehensive introduction to agile principles WAG: £6.2m IT investment in North Wales healthcare Will your organisation be ready? Major new report on digital technology Mapping rare disease and cancer genes: competition winners £9.5m investment in new technology & telehealth to improve patient care |
| Would all the child abuse, sexual exploitation & poor patient care still go on if they were rewarded and not ‘punished’? |
| The wider government needs to do more to understand the experience of whistleblowers and to act where whistleblowers suffer detriment. |
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| Editor’s Observation: Perhaps a Welsh Inventor had a more cost effective & more speedily implemented solution to fuel poverty 15 months ago! |
| A retired electrical engineer has developed a versatile low energy heated armchair seat cover which costs less than ½ pence per hour to use and could, he says, reduce household annual heating bills by several hundreds of pounds. It is estimated that 332,000 households in Wales are fuel poor and national charity National Energy Action (NEA) proposed a trial of his B-warm units across the region. |
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Invention puts Martin in the hot seat as business venture takes off |
| ‘Care on the cheap’ risks failing both carers & clients |
| Cllr Izzi Seccombe, Chairman of the Local Government Association's Community Wellbeing Board has responded to a UK Home Care Association report into pay for care workers. |
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LGA responds to UK Home Care Association report into pay for care workers The Homecare Deficit: Funding of Older People's Homecare No excuse now for sub-standard care due to ignorance of standards LAs must take care to act as legally required Telegraph reveals more than 500,000 home care visits last less than five minutes Hospitals are too expensive for anything but specialist ‘non-mobile’ treatment The NHS is not the only ‘care service’ with a funding ‘Black Hole’ Care crisis will require councils to divert £1bn from other services |
| Everyone deserves a chance |
| A new £10m funding programme aims to ‘boost the employment prospects of young people in Wales with a learning disability and/or learning difficulty including Autistic Spectrum Disorder’. The Getting Ahead 2 programme aims to help young people aged 16 to 25 who have a learning disability and/or learning difficulty into undertaking a paid work placement lasting between 6-12 months to enhance their chances of progressing into sustainable employment by increasing their employability skills. Third sector organisations are invited to apply with one grant of £10m due to be awarded to the successful applicant early next year. |
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| That’s 5% of the Welsh population are rare exceptions |
| Wales’ first ever plan to tackle rare diseases has been launched and it sets out the WAG’s expectations of the NHS in Wales to treat rare diseases for people of all ages, wherever they live & whatever their circumstances. A rare disease is defined as a life-threatening or chronically debilitating disease, which affects five people or less per 10,000 and can range from life-limiting illnesses to manageable conditions, which do not affect daily living. There are around 150,000 people affected by such diseases in Wales. |
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New plan to tackle rare diseases in Wales Being rare turns out to be quite common (2nd item) |
| What we really need is millions of new homes |
| Young first time buyers can go online now and sign up for cut-price new starter homes – with 20% off the asking price. Building on the first homes is expected to start within months. |
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CLG: Young first-time buyers can register online for 100,000 cut-price homes Unused public sector land will provide over 100,000 new homes |
| A ‘power-grab’ too far by EU organisations |
| General Court annuls the Eurosystem Oversight Policy Framework. The ECB does not have the competence necessary to impose such a requirement on central counterparties involved in the clearing of securities. |
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General Court annuls the Eurosystem Oversight Policy Framework |
| The importance of sharing knowledge & networking |
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At a launch event for the Knowledge Transfer Network (KTN) in Westminster speakers from government & business emphasised the importance of sharing knowledge & networking to keep the UK at the forefront of global innovation. Established by Innovate UK, KTN helps people & companies reach the full potential of their innovative capabilities by connecting them with each other. The launch event marked the creation of one unified KTN from 15 separate knowledge transfer networks. |
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Innovate UK: Connecting innovators - the Knowledge Transfer Network |
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WAG: Bill a chance to provide the Wales We Want for our future generations |
