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Hospitals make nearly four thousand medication errors in one week for inpatients with diabetes
18 May 2012 - Nearly one in three hospital patients with diabetes are affected by errors which can result in dangerously high blood glucose levels, according to a national audit report released today.
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Statins 'may even help healthy over-50s'
18 May 2012
- Everyone over the age of 50 should be given statins because the “cholesterol-busting” drugs reduce the risk of a heart attack even in healthy people, according to the Daily Telegraph and many other papers today.
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How to maintain quality during the transition: preparing for handover
18 May 2012
- To help organisations maintain quality during the transition, the National Quality Board has produced guidance for all sending and receiving bodies on how to prepare for handover during the transition.
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Extra one million people now seeing NHS dentist since May 2010
18 May 2012
- An extra 1.12 million people have access to an NHS dentist since May 2010, according to new figures released by the NHS Information Centre.
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Digital service launched for new parents
18 May 2012
- The NHS Information Service for Parents will give new parents information and advice they can trust covering a wide range of issues related to staying healthy in pregnancy, preparing for birth and looking after their baby.
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Preparation for commissioning picks up pace – Barbara Hakin
17 May 2012
- The pace is picking up now in terms of establishing CCGs, with less than ten months left until the new system goes live in April 2013.
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Healthy places: councils leading on public health
17 May 2012
- This report draws on a survey of over 50 councils and interviews with 28 senior officials involved in setting up the new health and wellbeing boards.
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Changes to ambulance response time categories
17 May 2012
- Changes to prioritise the most critically ill patients, increase the number of vehicles available to reach patients most in need and reduce the number of cancelled ambulances have been announced.
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New patient activation measure report
17 May 2012
- NHS Kidney Care has published Summary of the Evidence on Performance of the Patient Activation Measure (PAM).
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NHS pledges more support for women with postnatal depression
17 May 2012
- Women who have postnatal depression or who have suffered a miscarriage, stillbirth or the death of a baby will get more support from the NHS, Andrew Lansley said this week.
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Three more smart guides to engagement
16 May 2012
- Three new slim volumes in the Smart Guides to Engagement series are out this week. Seven of a planned series of 10 guides have now been published with the aim of giving CCGs easily digestible practical tips on how to tackle different aspects of patient and public engagement.
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Most hospitals pay full admission price for the over 60s
16 May 2012
- More than half of the income hospitals get for admissions that attract a mandatory tariff under the national payment system, Payment by Results (PbR), is from treating the over 60s, according to data released by the Health and Social Care Information Centre.
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National Learning Network products now available
16 May 2012
- The National Learning Network has published resources for health and wellbeing board members following an event in April.
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NICE should produce guidance on multiple morbidities
16 May 2012
- NICE should produce clinical guidelines that look at multiple-morbidities, as the number of people with long-term medical conditions rises.
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HIV post-exposure prophylaxis: guidance from the chief medical officer
16 May 2012
- This is the current UK guidance on occupational HIV post-exposure prophylaxis (PEP) from the UK chief medical officers’ expert advisory group on AIDS. It should be read in conjunction with local needlestick injury policy.
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NHS patient feedback challenge uses crowdsourcing
16 May 2012
- The recently launched NHS patient feedback challenge is using new ways of working to share, spread and implement the measurement and improvement of patient experience across the NHS.
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State of the nation 2012: England
16 May 2012
- Diabetes UK report shows that less than half of people with diabetes are getting the basic care.
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Commissioning Support Bulletin – Special issue, 14 May 2012
15 May 2012
- Special edition of Commissioning Support Bulletin
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Consultation launched on social work bursary
15 May 2012
- A consultation has been launched to review the social work bursary scheme in order to ensure it continues to attract sufficient high quality candidates to come forward to study and work as social workers. This follows from recommendations made by the Social Work Taskforce.
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More help to follow a healthy diet – front of pack food labelling consultation launched
15 May 2012
- Keeping track of what you eat and choosing healthier foods could be made easier thanks to a UK-wide consultation.
