Improving emergency department flow by introducing a simple time out moment (The TRAFFIC LIGHT study) - Overgaauw AJ, Ligthart M, Azilji K, Minderhoud TC, Sikkens JJ, Biesheuvel TH, Nanayakkara PW.
BACKGROUND AND IMPORTANCE: Long waiting times in the emergency department (ED) is an increasing problem in the recent years and is expected to become an even bigger problem in the future Objective: We aimed to test the hypothesis whether increasing awarene... (Source: SafetyLit)
Source: SafetyLit - April 17, 2024 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Tags: Economics of Injury and Safety, PTSD, Injury Outcomes Source Type: news
Mapped: RTT waiting times
An interactive map of local NHS waits around England in February 2024, showing the pressures, with links to all the details by organisation and specialty. (Source: HSJ)
Source: HSJ - April 12, 2024 Category: UK Health Source Type: news
Shocking data shows elderly Brits waiting more than 24 hours in A&E - check your hospital
Waiting times for elderly patients needing hospital admission from A&E increased 10-fold in just five years. (Source: Daily Express - Health)
Source: Daily Express - Health - April 10, 2024 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Let more NHS staff work flexibly to help solve staffing crisis
NHS managers should do more to allow staff to work in flexible ways, including having more control over shift patterns or doing compressed hours*, says UNISON today (Wednesday).
Data from a new UNISON survey** shows a significant proportion of healthcare workers are not being given the alternative work patterns they’ve asked for.
The survey found two-thirds (65%) of women employed in healthcare across the UK who’ve asked for different work arrangements had their requests agreed in full.
But more than one in five (22%) were unable to obtain flexible working. A further one in eight (13%) had their requests ini...
Source: UNISON meat hygiene - April 10, 2024 Category: Food Science Authors: Anthony Barnes Tags: News Press release 2024 National Health Conference flexible working NHS staff Source Type: news
The Relentless Cost of Chronic Diseases
At first, my legs buckled. Then I started nearly fainting and was struck by fierce jaw, neck, and back pain—six unhappy faces-worth on the scale. Just as quickly, as one tends to do, I created narratives to explain these sudden symptoms. That one glass of wine had done me in. The steamy weather led my knees to wobble. It was the aftermath of a concussion I got after I fell in a hole in the sidewalk. It was from when I hurt my neck when I was thrown down on a subway platform by a man with low spatial awareness and somewhere to be.
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It turned out I was fainting beca...
Source: TIME: Health - April 9, 2024 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Alissa Quart Tags: Uncategorized freelance Source Type: news
How good is YOUR GP practice? As five per cent of Britons are forced to wait more than a MONTH to see their doctor, use our interactive tool to check how your practice ranks for number of patients per doctors, face-to-face appointments and waiting times
Calling your GP practice and getting an appointment on the same day might seem like the bare minimum requirement for a functioning health service. (Source: the Mail online | Health)
Source: the Mail online | Health - April 8, 2024 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
UNISON health conference opens in Brighton
UNISON’s annual national health service group conference opened in Brighton this morning, with union president Libby Nolan (pictured above) saying that it had been a “really tough year for us…We say that every year, don’t we?”
Sending “solidarity” to ambulance workers, she noted that, as ambulances queue outside A&E departments, unable to hand over patients to hospitals because of waiting times, they are bearing the brunt of the crisis in the NHS.
Elsewhere, applauding a recent back-pay win, she told delegates that, while people join UNISON for different reasons, she had joined the union to increase her w...
Source: UNISON Health and safety news - April 8, 2024 Category: Occupational Health Authors: Amanda Kendal Tags: Article News 2024 National Health Conference Dudley Libby Nolan Mitie one team for patient care Wilma Brown Source Type: news
NHS recovery plan: one year on
Royal College of Emergency Medicine - In January 2023, the Department for Health and NHS England published a delivery plan to recover emergency care services following the most challenging winter the NHS has ever faced. The premise of the plan was to improve waiting times and patient experience by increasing capacity, growing the workforce, improving discharge, expanding care outside hospitals, and making it easier to access the right care. One year on, this briefing has been prepared to help policymakers review progress made in recovering emergency care services.BriefingPress release (Source: The Kings Fund - Health...
Source: The Kings Fund - Health Management Specialist Collection - April 2, 2024 Category: Health Management Authors: The King ' s Fund Library Tags: NHS performance and productivity Source Type: news
Public satisfaction with NHS at lowest ever level
Just 24% of Britons say they are satisfied, citing waiting times and lack of staff in a long-running survey. (Source: BBC News | Health | UK Edition)
Source: BBC News | Health | UK Edition - March 27, 2024 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Exclusive: social care waiting times revealed for first time in a decade
Older people are routinely enduring hidden waits of several months to get essential care and support, according to new figures obtained from government. (Source: HSJ)
Source: HSJ - March 25, 2024 Category: UK Health Source Type: news
Fewer transplants are taking place and waiting times have grown... So has the drive to make us all organ donors unless we opt out worsened the crisis?
The latest figures from NHS Blood and Transplant make for troubling reading. They reveal 3,781 transplants were carried out in England in 2022/23 compared with 4,057 in 2019/20. (Source: the Mail online | Health)
Source: the Mail online | Health - March 24, 2024 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
A dynamic traffic signal scheduling system based on improved greedy algorithm - Sun G, Qi R, Liu Y, Xu F.
Urbanization has led to accelerated traffic congestion, posing a significant obstacle to urban development. Traditional traffic signal scheduling methods are often inefficient and cumbersome, resulting in unnecessary waiting times for vehicles and pedestri... (Source: SafetyLit)
Source: SafetyLit - March 18, 2024 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Tags: Engineering, Physics, Structural Soundness and Failure Source Type: news
Mapped: RTT waiting times
An interactive map of local NHS waits around England in January 2024, showing the pressures, with links to all the details by organisation and specialty. (Source: HSJ)
Source: HSJ - March 15, 2024 Category: UK Health Source Type: news
Rethinking access to general practice: it ’s not all about supply
The Health Foundation -This briefing finds that, in recent years, public satisfaction with access to general practice has plummeted. Patients are finding it harder to make appointments, and feeling increasingly dissatisfied with waiting times and the types of appointment offered. However, despite having fewer GPs in England than there were in 2015, general practice is now delivering record numbers of appointments. It looks at ways of improving access to general practice, beyond increasing the supply of appointments.The Health Foundation - publications (Source: The Kings Fund - Health Management Specialist Collection)
Source: The Kings Fund - Health Management Specialist Collection - March 7, 2024 Category: Health Management Authors: The King ' s Fund Library Tags: Patient involvement, experience and feedback Primary and community care Source Type: news
King Charles’ cancer diagnosis highlights the long waiting times many people in the UK face
Waiting times to diagnose and treat cancer across the U.K. have worsened in recent years and are at near record highs (Source: ABC News: Health)
Source: ABC News: Health - March 6, 2024 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: Health Source Type: news
