Annual Reports
DH: More patients than ever before are going online to find health information and self-diagnose, saving the NHS £ms a year, according to separate reports published last week:
* A report shows the NHS website received over a 100m visits in the last year, while a separate study from Imperial College found a third of those logging onto www.nhs.uk avoided booking a GP appointment afterwards, potentially saving the NHS £44m a year
* The NHS Choices 2010 Annual Report shows there has been a 10% increase in the number of visits to the NHS website in 2010 compared to 2009, taking the number of times people logged on to the site to well over 100m.
* Separately, Imperial College research found 70% of patients use the internet to search for health information, with a third deciding not to visit their GP afterwards as they were able to find the information they were looking for.
CQC: Adult social care services have improved but the market must respond to meet future needs, says CQC in an overview report which has been compiled using data on council commissioning patterns, national minimum standards and registration data.
Adult social care services have improved significantly since 2008, but further growth in the market is required to meet future needs, according to a Care Quality Commission (CQC) report.
Adult social care services have improved significantly since 2008, but further growth in the market is required to meet future needs, according to a Care Quality Commission (CQC) report.
Press release ~ Overview of adult social care ~ Adult social care market and quality of services ~ Quality of adult social care purchased by councils
Newswire – TUC: The growth of home working has helped to cut average commute times to a 10 year low of 47 minutes & 48 seconds per day, a TUC analysis of official figures reveals. Using figures from the Labour Force Survey (LFS), the TUC has calculated that £339m worth of working time is spent travelling to and from work every day.
The TUC analysis - published to coincide with Work Wise UK's Commute Smart week last week (8-12 November) - finds that the average time spent commuting to and from work increased each year from 1998 to 2006, reaching a record 52 minutes and 36 seconds in 2006. The TUC believes that the growth in home working has been one of the reasons for the fall in commute times.
ScotGov: Scotland's Chief Statistician last week published a report using the latest Scottish Health Survey data to investigate the so-called ‘Glasgow Effect’ whereby higher levels of mortality & poor health have been said to exist in Glasgow beyond that explained by socio-economic circumstances.
NAO: A National Audit Office report published last week has found that the Department for Education has made good progress in improving take-up & achievement in areas such as A-Level maths and GCSE Triple Science. However, there has been less success in increasing the number of science teachers, improving take-up of A-Level physics and raising the standards of school science facilities.
Press release ~ Related CBI PR ~ NAO: Educating the next generation of scientists
Press release ~ Related CBI PR ~ NAO: Educating the next generation of scientists
