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https://www.elaros.com/ ELAROS is a private company that works with the NHS to provide digital apps and websites, including patient apps where they can fill in PROMs, and access to these by clinicians. The initial aim, I think is for it to be used particularly for Long Covid clinics to track...

"Patients’ concerns about substandard care are the “canary in the coal mine” but too often go ignored, the patient safety commissioner, Henrietta Hughes, tells Erin Dean When thinking about the difference patients can make in improving care, Henrietta Hughes recalls a recent visit to a stroke...

Copied from this thread The NHS is apparently rolling out a "reasonable adjustment flag" to share details of physical, sensory, communication & other impairments across the NHS. Tweet: ("We have started to roll out the Reasonable Adjustments Digital flag across the NHS and publicly funded...

The Guardian Thousands of foreign nurses a year leave UK to work abroad Denis Campbell "Almost 9,000 foreign nurses a year are leaving the UK to work abroad, amid a sudden surge in nurses quitting the already understaffed NHS for better-paid jobs elsewhere. The rise in nurses originally from...

NHS updates official advice on Chronic UTI for patients after pressure from campaigners (msn.com)

https://www.elft.nhs.uk/medically-unexplained-symptoms-bodily-distress-disorder

http://www.cbtwatch.com/petition-for-a-review-of-nhs-talking-therapies/ to sign petition on site you need to give your name and email.

best NHS site is the NHS Scotland site https://www.nhsinform.scot/illnesses-and-conditions/brain-nerves-and-spinal-cord/myalgic-encephalomyelitis-me-or-chronic-fatigue-syndrome-cfs...

ONS Health state life expectancies, UK: 2018 to 2020 1. Main Points Healthy life expectancy (HLE) at birth in the UK showed no significant change between 2015 to 2017 and 2018 to 2020. In Scotland, there was a statistically significant decrease of more than a year in male HLE at birth...

The Kings Fund How does the NHS compare to the health care systems of other countries ? Siva Anandaciva *Comparing the health care systems of different countries can help politicians and policy‑makers assess how the UK health care system is performing and where it could improve. *For...

Institute for Government "This report – written jointly report by the Institute for Government and Public First, and funded by the Health Foundation – assesses why NHS hospitals are failing to deliver higher activity despite higher spending on the service and higher levels of staffing over the...

https://news.sky.com/story/electric-headset-for-treating-depression-trialled-by-nhs-12884293

interesting thread from Keith Geraghty

Whole genome sequencing - NHS (I had a request to share some of my information about whole genome sequencing on a public thread so more people could find it :)) Ok so because I’ve been reading a lot about whole genome sequencing (on the NHS) recently, and I’ve gone through it all myself, I...

"Young people with eating disorders are coming to harm and ending up in A&E because they are being denied care and forced to endure long waits for treatment, GPs have revealed. NHS eating disorders services are so overwhelmed by a post-Covid surge in problems such as anorexia that they are...

https://www.myhsn.co.uk/top-tip/what-are-examples-of-mups-medically-unexplained-physical-symptoms no reviews yet.

The relationship between the NHS, the government which funds it, and its staff has recently soured still further with a once unthinkable nursing strike planned across the UK. While it reflects wider dissatisfaction, this was immediately triggered by this year’s pay settlement for Agenda for...

https://archive.ph/oBHQQ Millions of patients will be offered help to come off antidepressants and painkillers under an NHS drive to tackle addiction to prescription pills. New national guidance urges GPs to stop writing repeat prescriptions for those who have become dependent on common...

[This is general information on how NHS England is being re-organised, rather than anything specific to ME.] "NHS England have published “Guidance on developing the joint forward plan (JFP)”. This guidance supports integrated care boards (ICBs) and their NHS trusts and foundation trusts to...

Nuffield Trust Health and Brexit: six years on Martha McCarey, Mark Dayan, Holly Jarman, Professor Tamara Hervey, Nick Fahy, Dan Bristow, Prof Scott L Greer The referendum vote for the UK to leave the European Union in June 2016 marked a watershed in the country’s relations to its...