NHS staffing shortages: why do politicians struggle to give the NHS the staff it needs?
The King's Fund -The King ’s Fund and Engage Britain commissioned Bill Morgan, a former Conservative special adviser, to explore what can get in the way of ministers taking meaningful, long-term action to address NHS workforce shortages. The resulting report focuses on the role of politicians in workforce planning and deli very. It sets out the scale of the workforce crisis and the impact that it has, and the causes – identified in the report as difficulties in workforce forecasting, a tendency to train too few staff in the UK, and the insufficiently strategic use of international migration to compensate. It also c...
Source: Health Management Specialist Library - November 24, 2022 Category: UK Health Authors: The King ' s Fund Library Tags: Workforce and employment Source Type: blogs
The health and care workforce: planning for a sustainable future
The King's Fund -In response to the newly published report onNHS staffing shortages, our Director of Policy, Sally Warren, explores the wide range of actions needed to support workforce planning and service delivery in our latest long read.Read it now (Source: Health Management Specialist Library)
Source: Health Management Specialist Library - November 24, 2022 Category: UK Health Authors: The King ' s Fund Library Tags: Workforce and employment Source Type: blogs
Featured Health IT Job: Director, Digital Health Strategist
We like to regularly feature a healthcare IT job that might be of interest to readers. Today, we’re featuring the Director, Digital Health Strategist position that was recently posted on Healthcare IT Central. This position was posted by TransForm Shared Service Organization and is an international hybrid position in the Ontario West Region of Canada.
Here’s a description of the position:
Location: Ontario West Region (Hybrid: Both remote and onsite work)
Posting Period: November 3, 2022 to November 25, 2022 Closed at 4:00 pm
Employment Type: Permanent, Full-Time
Benefits: Pension, Health & Dental, Paid Si...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - November 23, 2022 Category: Information Technology Authors: Health IT Jobs Tags: Career and Jobs Healthcare IT Canadian Health IT Jobs Digital Health Strategist Director Jobs Healthcare IT Jobs Job Seekers TransForm Jobs Source Type: blogs
America, the intolerant
BY ANISH KOKA
Historically, the great tension between liberty and authority was between government as embodied by the ruling class and its subjects. Marauding barbarians and warring city-states meant that society endowed a particular class within society with great powers to protect the weaker members of society. It was quickly recognized that the ruling class could use these powers for its own benefit on the very people it was meant to protect, and so society moved to preserve individual liberties first by recognizing certain rights that rulers dare not breach lest they risk rebellion. The natural nex...
Source: The Health Care Blog - November 23, 2022 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Ryan Bose-Roy Tags: Health Policy Public Health Anish Koka COVID-19 in-hospital death Source Type: blogs
Stressed out and burned out: the global primary care crisis
The Commonwealth Fund -This briefing presents the first findings from the 2022 Commonwealth Fund International Health Policy Survey of Primary Care Physicians to explore the effects of the pandemic on the primary care workforce across nations. Conducted in ten high-income countries, it compares changes in workload, stress, emotional distress, burnout, quality of care delivered, and career plans.Briefing (Source: Health Management Specialist Library)
Source: Health Management Specialist Library - November 18, 2022 Category: UK Health Authors: The King ' s Fund Library Tags: Primary and community care Workforce and employment Source Type: blogs
Why We Should Care About U.S. Labor Market Regulation
Ryan BourneThe U.S. mid-term election cycle brought mixed results on state and local ballot measures determining wage and employment laws.Nebraskan voters approved a minimum wage hike from $9 per hour to $15 per hour by 2026, as DC voters opted to mandate that tipped workers ’ minimums rise from $5.35 per hour to $16.10 per hour by 2027.Ballot measures in Laguna Beach, California and elsewhere looking to introduce special minimum wages for staff in particular industries (such as hotel staff) genuinely failed. Illinois voters opted to enshrine a state constitutional amendment for the right to collectively bargain, whereas...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - November 16, 2022 Category: American Health Authors: Ryan Bourne Source Type: blogs
Physicians are only good for 90 days
“Nothing is certain except death and taxes.” Physicians are commonly offered one, two, and three-year employment contracts that appear ironclad and have automatic renewal clauses. The length of these contracts encourages us to believe we can confidently make major financial decisions based on expected income. Moreover, we want to believe that enduring years of training
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Physicians are only good for 90 days originally appeared in KevinMD.com. (Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog)
Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog - November 14, 2022 Category: General Medicine Authors: Aaron Morgenstein, MD and Victoria Brown, MD Tags: Physician Practice Management Source Type: blogs
Fight Aging! Newsletter, November 14th 2022
In this study, we show that TXNIP is vital for the cell fate choice when cells are challenged by various stress signals. Furthermore, prolonged IGF1 treatment leads to the establishment of a premature senescence phenotype characterized by a unique senescence network signature. Combined IGF1/TXNIP-induced premature senescence can be associated with a typical secretory inflammatory phenotype that is mediated by STAT3/IL-1A signaling. Finally, these mechanistic insights might help with the understanding of basic aspects of IGF1-related pathologies in the clinical setting.
Investigating the Ability of Type 2 Diabetes...
Source: Fight Aging! - November 13, 2022 Category: Research Authors: Reason Tags: Newsletters Source Type: blogs
Investigating the Ability of Type 2 Diabetes Treatments to Modestly Slow Aging Extends to SGLT-2 Inhibitors
There is something of a trend towards picking over the landscape of type 2 diabetes medication in search of therapies that can modestly slow aging, at least in animal models. If metformin is anything to go by, we shouldn't be at all optimistic that this will result in useful outcomes in humans. "Useful" in this context means reliable gains in late life health and life expectancy in metabolically normal people, where those gains are larger than those that can be achieved with exercise, and with minimal side-effects. Otherwise, this seems like time and effort that could be directed to more productive areas of research and de...
Source: Fight Aging! - November 8, 2022 Category: Research Authors: Reason Tags: Daily News Source Type: blogs
USCIS ’s Immigration Backlogs Hit 8.8 Million
David J. BierThis post is adapted fromProcessing Backlogs in the U.S. Immigration System: Describing the Scale of the ProblemThe Department of Homeland Security ’s U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (DHS-USCIS) is the gatekeeper for the broadest array of immigration benefits, including employment authorization and applications for green cards by immigrants already in the United States (see Table below). This broad jurisdiction makes the DHS-USCIS b acklog the most important among the four departments with immigration processing authority. The DHS-USCIS backlog of pending cases has grown more than fourfold from fis...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - November 7, 2022 Category: American Health Authors: David J. Bier Source Type: blogs
Combatting racial discrimination against minority ethnic nurses, midwives and nursing associates
NHS England - This resource is designed to support nurses, midwives and nursing associates, providing advice on the action you can take if you witness or experience racism. It also supports those in leadership roles to be inclusive leaders.ResourceMore detail (Source: Health Management Specialist Library)
Source: Health Management Specialist Library - November 7, 2022 Category: UK Health Authors: The King ' s Fund Library Tags: Equality and diversity Workforce and employment Source Type: blogs
Featured Health IT Job: Data Scientist
We like to regularly feature a healthcare IT job that might be of interest to readers. Today, we’re featuring the Data Scientist position that was recently posted on Healthcare IT Central. This position was posted by New York eHealth Collaborative and is in New York.
Here’s a description of the position:
New York eHealth Collaborative (NYeC) is a not-for-profit organization working in partnership with the New York State Department of Health to improve healthcare by collaboratively leading, connecting, and integrating health information exchange across the State.
Founded in 2006 by healthcare leaders, NYeC wor...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - November 3, 2022 Category: Information Technology Authors: Health IT Jobs Tags: Career and Jobs Healthcare IT Data Scientist Health Data Jobs Health IT Jobs Healthcare IT Jobs Job Seekers New York eHealth Collaborative New York Health IT Jobs NYeC Source Type: blogs
Combatting racial discrimination against minority ethnic nurses, midwives and nursing associates
NHS England -This resource is designed to support nurses, midwives and nursing associates, providing advice on the action that can be taken if witnessing or experiencing racism. It also aims to support those in leadership roles to be inclusive leaders.GuidanceNHS England - publications (Source: Health Management Specialist Library)
Source: Health Management Specialist Library - November 3, 2022 Category: UK Health Authors: The King ' s Fund Library Tags: Equality and diversity Workforce and employment Source Type: blogs
What Is The Duty To Act?
This week I’d like to explore two related topics that tend to create a bunch of confusion – the duty to act and the good Samaritan law. If you want to see a room full of EMTs argue with each other, ask a question like, “So, when does an EMT have a legal duty to act?” or “To whom does the good sam law really apply?” These are subjects where myth and confusion are more common than fact so lets jump in to these two, often confusing, legal tenants.
Today we’ll look at the duty to act and on Thursday we’ll dive in to the good samaritan law.
On duty or off duty, paid or vo...
Source: The EMT Spot - November 2, 2022 Category: Emergency Medicine Authors: Steve Whitehead Tags: EMT Source Type: blogs
