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England - Local PCT News
Birmingham and the Black Country SHA -
Chief Executive
David Nicholson, Chief Executive of Birmingham and
the Black Country SHA, has also been appointed Chief Executive (designate) at
Shropshire and Staffordshire SHA (from 1 August) and West Midlands South SHA
(from 1 September).
East Somerset NHS Trust - Medicines
Management
Yeovil District Hospital was one of the first ten in the
country selected as part of the Hospital Medicines Management Collaborative.
Special bedside lockers have been installed and patients are now successfully
taking their own medicines on three wards at the hospital, and there are plans
to extend the scheme to all areas where patients are well enough to do
so.
A key part of the scheme is that all patients coming into hospital
must bring all their medicines from home with them, in their original
containers, so that pharmacy staff can see exactly what medicines they are
taking at home and also those they are not.
Self-medication also means
that patients who have complex changes to their medication while in hospital
have a chance to get used to these before they go home.
Mid Devon PCT
- Diabetes
A study carried out by GPs from Mid Devon PCT has been
awarded Research Paper of the Year by the Royal College of General
Practitioners. The objective of the study was to find a practical system to
identify patients at high risk of developing diabetes.
Southwark PCT
- Supermarket Needle Exchange
Sainsbury's has made an application to
Southwark PCT for a community pharmacy within their East Dulwich branch which
would include an all-night chemist and syringe exchange facility. A decision
will not be made until August at the earliest.
West Yorkshire SHA -
Proposed Organisational Changes
The Board of West Yorkshire SHA has
agreed a "radical and ambitious" Manifesto for Action, which is now subject to
a three-month consultation period.
Proposals include:
- all
hospital and mental health trusts in West Yorkshire ready to move to foundation
status by 2007
- the number of PCTs will be slimmed down from the current
15 organisations amid concerns some are under-performing
- family doctors
will be given a more central role in commissioning care
- greater use will
be made of the independent sector, particularly for diagnostic services
-
closer working with local councils to improve care for people with long-term
conditions who need help from both the NHS and social services
- a more
high-profile focus on public health in areas with higher rates of heart
disease, respiratory illness and cancer to reduce demand for
healthcare
It is thought that the "Foundation Trust" target is likely to
be particularly challenging, because of the major financial problems at several
hospitals in Leeds and Wakefield.
Wales - Local Health Board News
Powys LHB - CHD
Fourteen
District Nurses at Powys LHB have been trained to provide cardiac
rehabilitation. They have now been linked with Cardiac Specialist Nurses and
are providing a cardiac rehabilitation programme tailored to the needs of
patients in rural areas.
Scotland - Local NHS News
NHS Argyll and Clyde - Proposed
Dissolution and Integration
The three NHS organisations affected by
the proposed dissolution have jointly established a Project Board and
supporting Project Team in order to manage the process. The three Health Boards
involved are:
- NHS Argyll and Clyde
- NHS Greater Glasgow
- NHS
Highland
A public consultation will be launched in early August
regarding the proposed geographic boundaries, and the Project Board will ensure
that the content and outcome of this is taken into account.
NHS Argyll
and Clyde continues to operate fully as a public body - the Project Board and
Team deal solely with dissolution and integration issues.
NHS Tayside
- Palliative Care
NHS Tayside is working in partnership with Marie
Curie Cancer Care to host a three-year project which aims to develop palliative
care services, and allow terminally ill patients to die at the place of their
choice.
Scotland - NHS 24
The NHS 24 helpline is to
establish a series of "mini call centres" across Scotland in a bid to improve
nurses' local knowledge and boost recruitment.
These satellite centres
will be set up in Inverness, Tayside, Lanarkshire and Ayrshire & Arran, and
there are plans to set up further centres in Dumfries & Galloway and the
Borders. There are already three main centres in South Queensferry, Clydebank
and Aberdeen.
The new centres will be based on health board property,
such as a local emergency care centre, and will operate mainly
out-of-hours.
NHS 24 has had difficulty coping with demand since it was
first launched four years ago - especially since GPs opted out of providing
out-of-hours care. Some patients have waited hours for a response and there
have been complaints of inappropriate advice.
A recent interim report from
the Scottish Executive criticised management failures and chronic staffing
shortages. The final report will be out in September.
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