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NewsNHSE delays delegation of key services to ICBs
NHS England’s delegation of vaccination and screening to integrated care boards will not happen for another 20 months, it has announced.
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CommentThe shameful state of children’s services can be rescued by Labour
Dame Clare Gerada, Dr Camilla Kingdon and Professor Sian Griffiths highlight the urgent need for robust reform to services for children and young people.
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HSJ InteractiveDo hospitals need to get more serious about sleep?
Making hospitals more conducive to high quality sleep might benefit patient experience and wellbeing, and could perhaps even lead to reduced length of stay
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CommentBlood and Transplant CEO: This is our most challenging period of the pandemic
Betsy Bassis, chief executive of NHS Blood and Transplant, asks hospitals in England to ensure they are not over ordering and have demand management plans in place for blood supply.
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NewsStaff flu vaccine uptake down on last year, despite winter fears
Early uptake of the flu vaccine by frontline NHS staff slumped this year, with only two in five having received it by the end of October, official figures show.
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NewsLocal government: Vaccine data so far too limited to track inequalities
Local public health officials have said they are still not getting detailed enough data to track any inequalities in uptake of the covid vaccine, seven weeks into the national immunisation drive.
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Hospital staff likely to get covid vaccine first
Hospital trusts have been put on notice that the challenging storage requirements of the first covid vaccines are likely to mean the vaccination of their staff will have to form the vanguard of the planned roll-out next month due.
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NewsLondon records surge in measles cases
Measles is on the increase in London with infections in the first quarter of 2019 outstripping the same period last year by more than a third.
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NewsGP at Hand digital service given first rating by CQC
The Care Quality Commission has rated GP at Hand “good” in the first inspection of its digital healthcare service.
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Trust makes vaccination mandatory for recruitment
A West Midlands trust will no longer recruit staff who have not had an immunisation for mumps, measles and rubella.
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NewsMeningitis outbreak sparks demand for vaccine action
A spike in meningitis cases leading to scores of patients being hospitalised has sparked calls for GPs to improve vaccination rates among young adults.
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NewsNHS England warning as vaccine programme extended
Public Health England and NHS England have issued a warning after some patients were given a vaccination for shingles that could leave them with “severe” complications.
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NewsNHS England moves to clear up flu vaccine confusion
NHS England has moved to try to clear up confusion over flu vaccines for next winter, following concerns that a better approach last year could have reduced pressure in hospitals.
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NewsReview calls for Tamiflu rethink
Ministers should review the use of a widely used anti-flu medication, scientists have said after new research questioned the efficacy of the drug.
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HSJ Local
NHS Surrey launches vaccination drive
PERFORMANCE: NHS Surrey is reminding parents of the importance of protecting their children by getting them vaccinated.
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CommentNick Seddon: healthcare reform's new dawn
Radical thinking from radical people is the only way forward if the health service is to thrive, says Nick Seddon.
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HSJ Local
Concern over HPV vaccine uptake in Eastern and Coastal Kent
PERFORMANCE: NHS Kent and Medway immunisation teams raised concerns in October about the numbers of parents that had failed to return consent forms for their daughters to have the HPV vaccine.
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NHS Salford aims high for flu vaccine uptake
PERFORMANCE: The primary care trust aims to ensure that more than three quarters of “at risk” under 65 year olds receive the flu vaccine this year, board papers state.
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NewsDH issues warning over use of flu vaccine in children
Directors of public health have been advised that the influenza vaccine Viroflu should not be used in children under five years old due to an increased risk of fever.