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From the Bureau Editor

Thursday November 21

Lord Darzi told the Health and Social Care Committee that NHS will stay broken unless ‘Labour addresses social care crisis’, and some service such as emergency prescribing are being cancelled as part of GPs’ collective action.

Angus Wrixon

Editor

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the briefing

 

NHS Policy / Performance / Service redesign / £ / Covid inquiry

Darzi tells the Health and Social Care Committee: NHS will stay broken unless ‘Labour addresses social care crisis’ Times

Workforce

Ann James, Plymouth Trust’s trust chief executive was given £120,000 in back pay and a total £380,000 in salary payments shortly before leaving the role HSJ

Mental health

Health Services Safety Investigations Body report - Mental health patients harmed by being sent to units far from home 

Clinical

Human Cell Atlas Project - Plans to map all 37 trillion cells in the human body is transforming understanding of how our bodies work BBC

How the science of snakebites is taking on superbugs - DHSC blog

Primary care, pharmacy, dentistry, optical, community 

GPs’ affirmative action halts services: Emergency prescribing and monitoring of patients with severe mental health conditions are among services being cancelled by GP practices as part of “collective action” HSJ

Cornwall: A review into emergency care deaths at Royal Cornwall trust claims a “lack of consistency” in primary care referrals is a major factor causing A&E crowding HSJ

Social care

International recruitment toolkit for adult social care providers DHSC

what the bloggers are blogging

NEW! Streeting’s reforms could save the NHS from the private sector. He must not fail - Observer

NEW! The Guardian view on NHS reform: evidence not dogma should be the guide

Want to understand British irony, humour and politics? Visit the NHS suggestions website Emma Beddington’s view in the Guardian

Climate change and heat-related mortality: will ‘summer crises’ become part of the NHS’s future? King’s Fund

Strengthening clinical leadership and management - Lessons from our research in the UK and US Health Foundation

“My report on the NHS diagnosed its dire condition. Now here’s the cure…”  Lord Ara Darzi's IPPR Report sets out his cure in the Guardian

A New Fiscal Model to Deliver Prevention - Tony Blair Institute

The Darzi Review

The Observer view on the NHS: If it is to ‘reform or die’, let’s start with the way it handles our data

NHS Confederation: Extra appointments alone won't meet key government waiting time pledge - report in which it proposes work coaches in GP practices

Primary care networks (PCNs) explained Kings Fund

Let’s talk about social prescribing - King’s Fund’s Siva Anandaciva’s podcast 

GP contract 2024/25 explained: funding, incentives and the workforce King’s Fund

10 early actions the government can take to improve NHS working conditions - Kings Fund

The state of NHS finances 2024/25 - NHS Confed Report

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