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Our top tips for beating stress in Stress Awareness Month. https://lnkd.in/eUMED35x #Digitalhealth #NHS #Healthcare North Cumbria Integrated Care NHS Foundation Trust

The first week of the year saw some intense pressure build up on NHS frontline services. An increase in respiratory related conditions, due to the cold weather, led to increased attendances and Acute Hospitals were at capacity. As always, our NHS colleagues continued to deliver care to the best of their abilities. There have been pockets of encouraging messages coming out from the government, notably an aim to shift performance by empowering staff and local teams, as opposed to just top-down management—a message we support. The question is, how? Under continued pressure and scrutiny, with plans for elective recovery taking precedent, whilst urgent & emergency care services continue to be hit, how can we empower the workforce to own and deliver change whilst re-building resilience in teams? The headspace is often the missing piece. The ideas and many of the answers exist amongst frontline staff, but they don't have the capacity to develop and deliver them. It's something we're dedicated to supporting and believe can be a crucial part of the solution. More on this coming in our new blog at the end of January at www.prismimprovement.com #NHS #Healthcare #FrontlineWorkers #HealthServices #Empowerment #ResilienceInHealthcare #PatientCare #HospitalCapacity

For senior ministers, particularly in the Department of Health and Social Care, festive thoughts may well be dominated by the significant policy decisions they'll need to make in the New Year. In our latest blog, Executive Chair Simon Whale explores the key challenges that await them in 2025. https://lnkd.in/eQeNkEVC

'Consultation launched on changes to NHS Constitution for England' Read our new article about how the Department of Health and Social Care is seeking input from patients, the public, staff and NHS organisations on how best to update the NHS Constitution for England. Full story available here: https://hubs.la/Q02x3nTT0 #EST #EmergencyServicesTimes

NHS staff are facing an unprecedented number of challenges - record demand for care, growing pressures from an ageing population, rising levels of multiple long-term illnesses and patients with more complex needs. So, alongside the Government, NHS England will be carrying out the largest ever staff engagement exercise in NHS history. They will harness frontline views, alongside those of patients and the public, to ensure they uncover them. You can get involved in two key ways: 1. Submit your ideas and feedback via change.nhs.uk. 2. Join the events taking place across the country and online - these will be focussed on the three big shifts in healthcare to make the NHS fit for the future, moving it from analogue to digital, hospital to community, and sickness to prevention. There is no NHS without the people who work in it - help NHS England in their mission to build an NHS fit for the future.

NHS staff are facing an unprecedented number of challenges - record demand for care, growing pressures from an ageing population, rising levels of multiple long-term illnesses and patients with more complex needs. So, alongside the Government, NHS England will be carrying out the largest ever staff engagement exercise in NHS history. They will harness frontline views, alongside those of patients and the public, to ensure they uncover them. You can get involved in two key ways: 1. Submit your ideas and feedback via change.nhs.uk. 2. Join the events taking place across the country and online - these will be focussed on the three big shifts in healthcare to make the NHS fit for the future, moving it from analogue to digital, hospital to community, and sickness to prevention. There is no NHS without the people who work in it - help NHS England in their mission to build an NHS fit for the future.

✍️ With the NHS facing major challenges, we're urging Rt. Hon. Wes Streeting MP, Secretary of State for Health and Social Care at the Department of Health and Social Care, to take decisive action. Isansys has written an open letter emphasising the need for solutions that match Labour's vision for a stronger, future-fit NHS. Read the letter in full ➡️ https://lnkd.in/esDTEjCd #NHS #healthcare #labourpledges #healthinnovation

Shifting care from hospitals into community services is central to the government's plan for fixing the NHS. Article sets out three unresolved questions that the government needs to answer to avoid repeating past mistakes. https://lnkd.in/e4NZbf8c #hsctraininglink #nuffieldtrust

This piece from The Times's Chris Smyth is a stark reminder of the need for more support for NHS and #socialcare teams. Volunteers can't solve all the challenges in #health and #care, but they are and should be part of the solutions.   #delayeddischarge costs an estimated £900 million a year, but there are multiple causes behind this healthcare challenge, not least:   - A decrease of available social care provision and support for patients ready to be discharged into community care - Recruitment and retention churn within the health service leading to experienced staff leaving and less-experienced staff taking on more work - An ageing population with multiple needs   The situation sounds grim, but there are solutions! One of which involves utilising volunteer services to help support health and care staff in ensuring patients are able to leave hospital when ready. Volunteers at hospitals including Barts Health NHS Trust support discharge teams by fetching To-Take-Away (TTA) medication from hospital pharmacies, allowing nursing staff more time to care and prepare patients ready to leave. Our evaluations have revealed that volunteer support can speed up patient discharge by up to 44 minutes!   Michael Bell Mike Bell Stephanie Elsy Roger Gough Nick Broughton Kevin Lavery Mark Fisher Anna Dixon Emma Easton Lara Sonola NCVO Mark Lever OBE   You can read The Times article below, and you can learn more about how volunteers are helping with this challenge on our website at www.helpforce.community 🔗  https://lnkd.in/ekZ6EnFM

This week in Westminster, Wes Streeting delivered what can only be described as a dose of reality: the #NHS is crumbling faster than anyone can say “reform or die.” 🎭 I’m optimistic though that maybe the NHS’s luck is turning, with the Labour government promising to give it the care it needs and fix the mess that they inherited.
 
Lord Darzi’s review? The long awaited, and somewhat unsurprising report found that: waiting times are sky-high, staff are drained, and hospital productivity is lower than ever. The NHS is struggling, and everyone’s sick of being, well, sick. But fear not! Streeting is here with solutions! 🛠️  
1. Move from analogue to digital: No one would deny that a full digital overhaul of the NHS would be hugely beneficial and efficient. But if I were a betting woman, I wouldn’t wager on NHS tech working smoothly on any given day. Let alone the huge investment and administrative burden that would be needed to get this set up!🤖
2. Hospital to community care: Less queuing in hospitals, more care in your local GP. While there’s promise in shifting support to where people already are, community care is already struggling. Much more will need to be strengthened locally to make this work. 👩⚕️
3. From sickness to prevention: Turns out, the best way to fix the NHS is to make sure you don’t need it. Genius! So, let’s prevent illness altogether (finally!) by tackling things like unhealthy lifestyles. Not a new tactic, but certainly one that is long overdue a reprioritisation. To be successful though, this will require sufficient support from other departments such as education, and efforts to make healthy eating more cost-effective. 🥗

Next steps? A 10-year plan to outline and address the needs of the NHS. Streeting even joked he’s not going full "nanny state" on us—so feel free to keep eating your cake... for now. 🍰
 
What does this mean for healthcare comms & public affairs? 💼 Expect a flurry of policy updates, public messaging campaigns, and media scrutiny as reforms roll out. Now is the time for strategic engagement—because the NHS narrative is shifting, and specialists will need to cut through the noise with clear, compelling advocacy.
 
#NHSReform #ReformOrDie (Disclaimer: Sarcasm levels may fluctuate depending on treatment wait times)