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🩺 The Wellbeing of Ward Staff in UK Hospitals: Navigating Pressures and Celebrating Resilience. This piece highlights the unsung heroes of both NHS and private hospitals and the significance of promoting their well-being for patient care. 🔗 https://lnkd.in/eX-scxkk #NHS #PrivateHealthcare #WardStaffWellbeing #HealthcareHeroes #PatientCare

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The Times headline 30th March 2024 "NHS patients facing long waits will get private care". This is a rather pathetic sticking plaster or another move towards privatising the NHS. The doctors who work in the private sector are NHS doctors so the same clinicians are operating in both - but they cannot work in both at the same time so it is just a gimmick. The private sector needs to make a profit so it will cost the NHS more. These tactics add to NHS costs as does employing agency staff and in doing so kicks the can of increasing NHS decline down the road. No sign of the 40 new Boris hospirals!!! The Government and NHS need to take control of costs and allocate more for capital spend to create integrated hospitals (combination of acute and stepdown). These can provide 20% more beds at no extra capital nor operational cost. (it is achieved by a re-balance that I have worked on in other countries). This relieves the bed blocking - which will get worse very year because of our ageing demographic.

A Guide for NHS Employees: Tackling the Increasing Waiting List Crisis Working within the NHS is both a rewarding and challenging experience. With the increasing waiting list crisis, NHS employees are at the forefront of the battle to provide timely and effective healthcare services. In this blog, we'll explore strategies and approaches that NHS staff can adopt to help tackle the growing waiting list crisis and provide the best possible care to patients. Check it out now 👉 https://lnkd.in/ePhphKC2 #waitinglists #outpatients #patientexperience #nhs

NHS in perspective: 1948-2024 (Part 2) What has this to do with the Darzi Report, which filled this morning’s front pages? The resources for the NHS have not kept up with an ageing population and developments in treatments, both surgical and medical, while our expectations have probably exceeded what is reasonable. I will not dwell on the incremental privatization of the NHS, with private providers picking the low-hanging fruit, nor on the damage done by the creation of the internal market. I would merely say that, in less than 28 months, Andrew Lansley’s ‘reforms’ did incredible damage to the NHS and his successors did little to put things right. The previous government made reckless and false promises (40 new hospitals) which raised expectations but, by austerity, destroyed delivery. “Nor will there be overnight any miraculous removal of our more serious shortages of nurses and others and of modern replanned buildings and equipment.” I am sure, with justification, we will hear Kier Starmer or Wes Streeting use very similar words quoted above. They are, of course, works spoken by Nye Bevan in early July 1948. We must retain a national health service free for all at the point of delivery. We must resist moves towards a two-tier system, and avoid any further privatisation.

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Bit short notice I know but If you're not on holiday and you have an hour or so to spare tomorrow 12.30 my colleague Andrew Morris and I will be talking about the vital role medicines play in improving outcomes and securing best possible value from local resources, delivering value based care in the NHS. Register, grab some lunch and listen in https://lnkd.in/gg-A7DEC #medicinesoptimisation #populationhealthmanagement #integratedcare #nhs #valuebasedcare

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