More costs added to the ‘eat out to help out’ scheme as documents finally released about the £2 million spent on focus groups to try and get public to support an idea for which no scientists were consulted and almost certainly accelerated a second wave 😡 theguardian.com/business/2024/…

If you had to have an operation for a hip fracture, how much do you think your risk of dying would increase if you caught Covid while you were in hospital?

A global study of over 7,000 hip fracture patients across 14 countries sought to answer this question…

Results showed that:

📍Covid-19 was independently associated with a THREE TIMES HIGHER risk of dying within just 30 days of your hip fracture operation.

sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

I reckon you’ll look at these CO2 readings and dream of what could be somewhere else Barry McAree 💙 and Matt Butler

#FreshAirNHS

Wonderful summary statement Prof Raymond Agius 🇪🇺 🇬🇧🇫🇷🇮🇹🇲🇹🇪🇸 Philip Banfield 💙 👏

covid19.public-inquiry.uk/documents/subm…

Emphasising improved ventilation, emphasising improved ventilation, emphasising improved ventilation, emphasising improved ventilation....
nature.com/articles/s4146…
h/t Lazarus Long

Watch tonight's #Panorama on the systemic patient safety risks in the private hospital sector with an interview with our Director. With more NHS patients being treated in private hospitals is the government knowingly exposing them to avoidable harm? bbc.co.uk/programmes/m00…

“Atmospheric, sea surface and land temperatures are presently off the charts in both hemispheres. What we are seeing is beyond the worst-case projections of all climate model scenarios'

mountainviewtoday.ca/beyond-local/j…

NHS work done by Private Sector

On the face of it a ‘good idea’ but wait….

The money spent is not then invested in the NHS, the private sector do this at a profit & long term capacity is lost form NHS making NHS a more reliant

Dr Amir Khan GP Explains

The project makes multiple recommendations to enable us to better understand safety, gaps and to improve safety where this is needed.

The report is here
rcoa.ac.uk/research/resea…
The paper is here
…-publications.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.11…

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Jasmeet Soar Richard Armstrong Andrew Kane Emira Kuršumović Dr Fi Oglesby…

So the one slide summary on perioperative cardiac arrest in private hospitals is here

To be clear much work takes place in all sectors to promote safety. The vast majority of anaesthesia and surgery is very safe and outcomes good. But anaesthesia and surgery has risk, some of…

How much data, repeated how many times do we need to see before we understand that “social” care must be fixed?

And not just to help treat people at the front doors of our hospitals, but to support those people stuck in hospital who don’t want or need to be.

RCPEdin British Geriatrics Society

Ed Savill Also patients staying in hospital for three weeks or more when they are medically fit to leave rose from an average of 2,350 in October 2020 to 6,390 patients in December 2022. Some of this is NHS fault agreeing ongoing care but a lot is social services too.

Ed Savill Last years ADASS report said there had been an 8% increase to waiting lists for social care with 470,000 older and disabled people waiting for care to start, direct payments or their care needs to be assessed.

We've more than halved the number of district nurses since 2010.

A&E rising demand isn't driving long waits in A&E. Attendance rates are not dramatically up from pre-pandemic levels. The real issue is collapse of social/community care provision & some increased acuity. This is driving longer stays & means fewer open beds for ppl to go into

Dear @WesStreeting,

The next government must be an evidence-based government. If you can show that a reform will improve patient care and save taxpayer money, then we’ll have your back. If not, we’ll oppose it. It’s quite simple. The era of ignoring expertise is over.

#SOSNHS

When you have doubts about ventilation in enclosed spaces, #WearAMask to help protect yourself and others from COVID-19, flu and other respiratory illnesses. #StaySafe

More than 150,000 patients were forced to wait more than 24 hours in A&E before getting a hospital bed last year, a tenfold increase on 2019, new figures show ⬇️ thetimes.co.uk/article/a-and-…

HCWers expect scrutiny to demonstrate
-cognisance of the gradients of power structures
-comprehension of professional expertise
-centring of patients accounts and outcomes
- discounting political expediency
-refusal to place reputation above candour
-basic decency

Dr Christine Peters, Dr Christine Peters relentless in the pursuit of good governance in the NHS. A truly remarkable and honourable woman that Scotland’s NHS - and its patients- owe a huge debt to.