Innovative mental health and learning disability nursing recruitment
NHS Employers - This case study sets out how Leeds and York Partnership NHS Foundation Trust boosted applications to their newly qualified mental health and learning disability nursing posts.Case study (Source: The Kings Fund - Health Management Specialist Collection)
Source: The Kings Fund - Health Management Specialist Collection - April 15, 2024 Category: Health Management Authors: The King ' s Fund Library Tags: Mental health Workforce and employment Source Type: news
A new deal for health staff
Tuesday afternoon at health conference saw a group of motions on professional and occupational issues.
Top on the agenda was a motion calling for ‘A new deal for healthcare assistants’. It called on the health SGE to continue to build on the work of the highly successful Pay Fair for Patient Care campaign.
The campaign focusses on winning significant sums of pack pay for members by fighting for rebanding for healthcare assistants (HCAs) at a local level.
The motion, moved by Annette Heslop, calls for continued campaigning for proper career progression opportunities, better recognition and lobbying for a strategy to pro...
Source: UNISON Health care news - April 8, 2024 Category: UK Health Authors: Simon Jackson Tags: Article News 2024 National Health Conference one team paramedics Source Type: news
Health workers in South West celebrate double lump-sum victory
Hundreds of hospital workers in the South West are celebrating victory after NHS and Sodexo respectively committed to paying the lump sum bonuses due to them.
The one-off payment, part of a deal agreed for all staff on NHS contracts and Agenda for Change, is worth at least £1,655 for full-time health workers.
Wiltshire
Staff at Wiltshire’s six community hospitals had taken two days of strike action (pictured above) over the company’s previous refusal to honour the payment, already given to health workers employed directly by the NHS in June 2022.
Wiltshire Health and Care initially said it could not afford to pay the...
Source: UNISON Health care news - April 8, 2024 Category: UK Health Authors: Janey Starling Tags: Article health workers one team for patient care South West Source Type: news
Mid Cheshire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust reimagines their work experience programme
NHS Employers - The trust recreated their work experience programme to have a virtual component that increased numbers and reduced impact on staff.Case study (Source: The Kings Fund - Health Management Specialist Collection)
Source: The Kings Fund - Health Management Specialist Collection - April 8, 2024 Category: Health Management Authors: The King ' s Fund Library Tags: Workforce and employment Source Type: news
New CEO for FT embarking on hospital build
A new chief executive has been appointed to a foundation trust seeking to embark on a major new build as part of the “new hospitals programme”. (Source: HSJ)
Source: HSJ - March 26, 2024 Category: UK Health Source Type: news
The 2024 local elections: pre-election period considerations for NHS trusts and foundation trusts
NHS Providers - This briefing sets out considerations for NHS foundation trusts and trusts in the period of time known as the pre-election period leading up to the local authority and Greater London Authority elections on 2 May. It highlights the practical implications around providers ’ activities, including in relation to integrated care systems (ICSs), and with regard to communication during the pre-election period. It also covers the requirements on central and local government, the civil service and arm’s length bodies during the pre-election period to maintain political impartiality in carrying out their pu...
Source: The Kings Fund - Health Management Specialist Collection - March 19, 2024 Category: Health Management Authors: The King ' s Fund Library Tags: Regulation, governance and accountability Source Type: news
Decade long battle ends with decision on cancer services
Children’s cancer services in London and the south east will be hosted by Guy’s and St Thomas’ Foundation Trust, NHS England has announced, following more than a decade of safety concerns surrounding the current model. (Source: HSJ)
Source: HSJ - March 14, 2024 Category: UK Health Source Type: news
Radiologists and AI-powered health informatics: Leading the way in screening
Sham Sokka, chief operating and technology officer of DeepHealth, discusses why he is excited about this year’s ECR congress in Vienna.
What are you most excited about for ECR this year?
Vienna is such a beautiful city and I’m so excited to be here at The European Congress of Radiology (ECR 2024) again this year.
At DeepHealth, this represents an exciting time – to showcase our pioneering offering, present new data, and meet and network with experts in the field of screening and radiology. I always relish the opportunity to talk to our customers from around the world.
Everything we do at DeepHealth is about empow...
Source: AuntMinnie.com Headlines - February 29, 2024 Category: Radiology Authors: DeepHealth Tags: Artificial Intelligence Source Type: news
These are the top 10 holdings of Bill Gates' $42 billion stock portfolio
None The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation Trust has $42 billion in assets under management. • None The portfolio is unique in that it owns concentrated positions in less heard of companies. • None These are the top 10 stocks held by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation Trust as of December 31.…#billgates #cocacolafemsa #mexican #johndeere #ticker #wmt #cat (Source: Reuters: Health)
Source: Reuters: Health - February 24, 2024 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
These are the top 10 holdings of Bill Gates' $42 billion stock portfolio
None The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation Trust has $42 billion in assets under management. • None The portfolio is unique in that it owns concentrated positions in less heard of companies. • None These are the top 10 stocks held by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation Trust as of December 31.…#billgates #cocacolafemsa #mexican #johndeere #ticker #wmt #cat (Source: Reuters: Health)
Source: Reuters: Health - February 23, 2024 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Hundreds of Mitie staff striking today at Dudley Group hospitals
Around 300 of the lowest-paid staff working at hospitals in Dudley will take strike action today (Friday) over their employer’s refusal to pay them a lump sum worth at least £1,655 that has already been given to hundreds of thousands of people employed by the NHS, says UNISON.
The health staff, who work at Dudley Group NHS Foundation Trust (DGFT) but are employed by private contractor Mitie, began their 24-hour walkout at 5am. Another strike lasting 24 hours is lined up for next Thursday (29 February).
The workers, who include cleaners, domestics, porters, catering staff and many other important hospital roles, must be ...
Source: UNISON Health care news - February 23, 2024 Category: UK Health Authors: Anthony Barnes Tags: News Press release Mitie nhs pay private contractors Source Type: news
Hope for patients with same brain cancer that killed The Wanted star Tom Parker as trial reveals olive oil-based drug can slow progression
A drug derived from oleic acid, which naturally occurs in olive oil, could help brain cancer patients, say experts at The Royal Marsden NHS Foundation Trust, in London. (Source: the Mail online | Health)
Source: the Mail online | Health - February 21, 2024 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Culture review of ambulance trusts
NHS England -This independent review (commissioned by NHS England and chaired by Siobhan Melia, CEO, Sussex Community NHS Foundation Trust) considers the prevailing culture within ambulance trusts in England. It discusses the core factors impacting cultural norms and offers actionable recommendations for improvement.ReviewMore detail (Source: The Kings Fund - Health Management Specialist Collection)
Source: The Kings Fund - Health Management Specialist Collection - February 19, 2024 Category: Health Management Authors: The King ' s Fund Library Source Type: news
Trust names ‘inspiration’ former receptionist as CEO
Homerton Healthcare Foundation Trust has promoted Bas Sadiq, who joined the NHS as an outpatient receptionist 20 years ago, to chief executive. (Source: HSJ)
Source: HSJ - February 19, 2024 Category: UK Health Source Type: news
Could CEM be suitable alternative for imaging lobular carcinoma?
Contrast-enhanced mammography (CEM) can locally stage lobular breast carcinomas and could serve as an alternative to breast MRI, according to research published February 12 in Clinical Radiology.
A team led by Elisabetta Giannotti, MD, from Hospital NHS Foundation Trust in Cambridge, U.K., found that CEM had superior sensitivity compared to standard mammography and that both CEM and MRI overestimate tumor size to a similar degree.
"Traditionally, breast MRI has been used in many centers for preoperative staging, but CEM appears to be a suitable alternative,” the Giannotti team wrote.
Invasive lobular carcinoma is the ...
Source: AuntMinnie.com Headlines - February 13, 2024 Category: Radiology Authors: Amerigo Allegretto Tags: Subspecialties Breast Imaging Source Type: news
