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England - Local PCT News
Burnley, Pendle and Rossendale PCT - CHD Information Event
The PCT
launched its new Heart Disease Resource Pack for health professionals at a
recent CHD Information Event. Over 350 professionals, including 80 GPs,
attended the event which included presentations on subjects such as statin
prescribing and diet.
Coventry PCT - COPD
Coventry PCT has
agreed to set up a Chronic Disease Management Reference Group to look into the
improvement of community provision of COPD services. [click here to read more]
Hampshire and Isle of Wight SHA - Refocusing NHS Leadership
The SHA has proposed joint management arrangements for three clusters of PCTs
in Hampshire, allied to the ongoing development of lead commissioning
arrangements.
New Foundation Trusts - Name Changes
Ten more
NHS Trusts have been awarded Foundation Trust status, and two of these have
changed their names.
North Devon PCT / Northern Devon Healthcare
NHS Trust
The Way Forward Group is planning the future of North Devon's
health service, and looking at ways the existing structure could be improved.
Options include a merger of the two organisations, and the group is expected to
report at the end of July.
South Manchester University Hospitals
NHS Trust - Wound Care
Professor Gus McGrouther has proposed that the
country’s first drive-through wound treatment centre be set up at
Wythenshawe Hospital.
Torbay PCT - Care Trust
Plans are
underway to bring Torbay PCT and Torbay Social Services together to form a new
Care Trust for Adult Services, and a Children's Trust for children's services.
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Torbay PCT - GP
Incentive Scheme
Torbay PCT is pioneering a scheme which aims to reduce
unplanned hospital admissions by up to 15%. GPs will receive £75 for each
patient with a detailed care plan, and £25 if the patient does not have
to go into hospital.
Trent SHA - Celebrating Success 2004
Celebrating Success 2004 is an award scheme covering the Trent SHA area which
aims to celebrate the achievements of staff, improvements in patient care and
service modernisation. The overall winner was Southern Derbyshire Acute
Hospitals NHS Trust.
Wales - Local Health Board News
Carmarthenshire LHB - Teenage Health
Two teenagers who were invited
to sit on the appointment panel for two Youth Liaison Nurses in Llanelli have
so impressed the LHB that they have now been asked to sit on a steering group
monitoring the development of the two new nursing roles.
Carmarthenshire NHS Trust - Mental Health
Recent figures show that
mental health patients account for nearly half of the Trust's delayed hospital
transfer problem. Carmarthenshire NHS Trust has one of the highest
'bed-blocking' statistics in Wales, with lost bed days at 14.8%.
Wrexham LHB - Coronary Heart Disease
Caring For Our Health is a
major fitness campaign which has been launched in Wrexham, North Wales' largest
town. A shock survey last year showed its residents were among the most unfit
and sick in North Wales, with heart disease a major killer.
Scotland - Local NHS News
NHS Fife - Diabetes
An
innovative computer system aimed at improving diabetes care has been launched
in Fife. Scottish Clinical Information Diabetes Collaboration (SCI-DC), is
being rolled out initially in four diabetes clinics before being implemented
Fife-wide.
NHS Lothian - Drugs and Alcohol
Edinburgh is to
become the first city in Scotland to get its own drugs and alcohol "Tsar" as
police and drug workers have warned that the city is on the verge of the worst
heroin epidemic for almost 20 years.
NHS Lothian -
Thrombolysis
Ambulances in East Lothian and Midlothian will begin to
carry thrombolysis drugs this month. This is the first scheme of its kind in
Scotland, and it is expected that it will be rolled out across the rest of
Edinburgh and the Lothians later this year.
Scotland -
£19.75m Drug Treatment Funding
Above inflation rises for drug
treatment projects across Scotland have been announced, bringing support to
£19.75 million for 2004-05. Three NHS Boards will receive increases of up
to 50% due to the scale of their drug problems.
Northern Ireland -
Local NHS News
Northern Group LHSCG - Respiratory
Illness
There are claims that a recent Air Quality Review shows that
residents of Newtonstewart and Springhill Park are 50% more likely to die from
respiratory-related illness than the national average. 105/135 homes in
Springhill Park rely on coal or solid fuel.
Northern LHSCG -
Hypertension
The LHSCG has provided funding to a Limavady community
pharmacy to undertake a pilot study aiming to improve the management of
patients with hypertension.
Western HSSB - Health
Inequalities
A report published by the HSSB shows that levels of
deprivation and sickness are higher locally than anywhere else in N Ireland. It
also concludes that local people are two and half times more likely to suffer
from ill health than in other provinces.
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