Liz Wells

4 days ago | healthcare-management.uk | Liz Wells |Lee Peart

The new scanners were promised as part of the government's Elective Reform Plan and mark another step closer towards fixing the NHS and making it fit for the future, as set out in the Plan for Change. More than one in three women and one in five men will experience a fracture due to osteoporosis in their lifetime and so these scanners are equipped with advanced technology to identify with minute detail the quality of a patient's bones.

4 days ago | healthcare-management.uk | Lee Peart |Liz Wells

The abolition of NHS England is a ‘necessary move for the NHS to move forward', a trust leader has told Healthcare Management. Laura Skaife-Knight, chief executive of NHS Orkney, said the move, which was announced in March, was necessary to respond ‘to the challenges of today and the future'.

4 days ago | healthcare-management.uk | Liz Wells |Lee Peart

The government has unveiled new measures to make it a criminal offence for people who are not qualified as a nurse to use the title and mislead the public. Currently, anyone – including those struck off by the Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC) for serious misconduct or criminal convictions – can call themselves a nurse. This can result in the public thinking they're getting advice and care from an expert professional like a nurse when they aren't.

4 days ago | healthcare-management.uk | Lee Peart |Liz Wells

Speaking at an event hosted by the Medical Journalists' Association last week Sir Jim said the NHS would receive ‘some growth in the Spending Review' but added it ‘it's never enough'. Sir Jim said: ‘The NHS is such a big part of public spending now we are pretty much maxed out on what's affordable.

4 days ago | healthcare-management.uk | Liz Wells |Lee Peart

The government's Immigration White Paper, to be published in Parliament, will include the change as the government takes action to bring down historically high levels of net migration. A government crackdown on rogue care providers has seen around 40,000 workers displaced, many of whom are ready to rejoin the workforce. They will be given the opportunity to do the jobs they were promised, while long-term plans are drawn up to train homegrown talent into the care sector, the government said.