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🚨NEW REPORT🚨 Today we've published a three paper series in our ‘Reimagining Health’ programme. Shifting to a preventative model of care has long been championed as the way for the health system to survive the challenges of the modern age. And primary care – as the front door to the health system - is uniquely positioned to finally achieve the prevention ambition. However, successive governments have failed to deliver a truly preventative system. As the demand on the health service continues to grow in both volume and complexity, there is an urgent need for change.   Reform’s new report series, Prescription for Prevention, argues for a step-change in approach and explores the tools needed to fundamentally reimagine the primary care system.  The papers set out a comprehensive list of recommendations covering workforce, technology, infrastructure, funding, regulation and many more areas; which show how DHSC, NHS England, and local government must operate to realise the prevention ambition and help to save the system from collapse.  You can read the full report here, as well as the supplementary papers on funding and technology👇. Let us know what you think! https://lnkd.in/eCY5aYfx

❓️❓️Why Up-to-Date Healthcare Professionals Are Essential for Public Health ✍️ The healthcare landscape is constantly evolving. New discoveries, treatments, and technologies emerge all the time. In this dynamic environment, well-educated and up-to-date healthcare professionals play a critical role in ensuring public health. ✳️ Benefits of a Knowledgeable Workforce: 🔺️ Improved Patient Outcomes: With a strong foundation in current medical knowledge, healthcare providers can deliver the most effective treatments and make informed decisions, leading to better patient outcomes. 🔺️ Accurate Diagnoses: Staying current on the latest diagnostic tools and techniques allows for faster and more accurate diagnoses, which is crucial for timely interventions and improved prognoses. 🔺️ Combating Misinformation: Public-facing healthcare professionals, like educators and public health officials, act as a vital source of trustworthy information. Their expertise helps combat misinformation and empowers the public to make informed health decisions. 🌐 The Need for Continuous Learning: The field of medicine is ever-changing. To maintain their competency, healthcare professionals must embrace continuous learning. This can involve attending conferences, participating in workshops, and pursuing continuing education courses. 🚩 Mandatory Review: A Safeguard Incorporating mandatory reviews of knowledge for public health professionals can be a valuable safeguard. These reviews can assess their understanding of current best practices, public health guidelines, and emerging threats. This ensures consistent delivery of high-quality information and minimizes the risk of outdated or inaccurate advice reaching the public. 🧭 Challenges of Public Health Communication: Communicating complex medical information to the public can be challenging. Here are some hurdles to consider: 🔷️ Understanding Public Needs: Tailoring information to the public's level of understanding is crucial. 🔷️ Combating Misinformation: The spread of false information online can create confusion and distrust. Healthcare professionals need to be equipped to address these issues. 🔷️ Evolving Public Health Threats: Emerging infectious diseases and public health crises require clear and consistent messaging to educate and guide the public. ✅️ Conclusion: Investing in the education and ongoing learning of healthcare professionals is vital for safeguarding public health. By staying up-to-date and effectively communicating with the public, healthcare professionals can empower individuals to make informed choices and navigate the ever-changing world of health.

How we can counterbalance the “broken” NHS messaging to create some much needed hope?   When Wes Streeting was made health secretary in England, he declared the NHS "broken" - a phrase he and others in government have used repeatedly since.   BBC News reports that there is growing unease within the NHS about this messaging. Senior sources in the health service believe some of the claims have gone too far - and may result in patients being put off seeking help and damaging staff morale.   While clear, transparent, and consistent messaging is crucial to maintaining public trust, we are all well aware that the NHS operates within budgetary and capacity constraints.   The right messaging helps to communicate the realities of service delivery, wait times, and access to treatments, which can help to prevent frustration and misunderstandings. Proactively communicating and publicising successes, innovations, and improvements helps bolster the NHS's reputation and counterbalance any negativity. It really does promote hope.   At Mantis PR we are committed to helping leading health tech providers tell their digital transformation stories, and demonstrate how the NHS is using innovation to take great strides forward, overcome challenges, and improve outcomes for patients.   If you’re keen to learn more about how PR and communications can strengthen your story and help you to reach the right audience, get it touch with us. We’d love to hear from you.   #NHS #healthcare #digitaltransformation #digitalhealth #healthtech #publicsectortechPR #govtech #publicservices

There’s no denying the NHS faces challenges but we can’t let the “broken” narrative drive the conversation. This kind of message discourages patients and disheartens the dedicated professionals working in the system. I see the positive stories about NHS digital transformation and I'm lucky to work with technology suppliers who are improving outcomes - it's important to remind ourselves of what's possible and highlight the progress made. If you’re interested in finding out how PR can help tell your story, please send me a message and connect. #NHS #HealthTech #PublicSector #DigitalTransformation

Open Letter to Rt. Hon. Wes Streeting MP Dear Wes We were highly encouraged by your recent announcement of Labour’s 10-year NHS plan, especially the proposal to introduce smartwatches to monitor diabetes. At Healthcare Innovation Consortium (HIC), we have long recognised the potential of remote monitoring technology to transform patient care and reduce the strain on NHS services. While remote monitoring is not a completely novel concept, we fully understand its importance and the significant impact it can have when integrated effectively into everyday healthcare. At HIC, we know that such technologies can provide vital real-time data, offering a more personalised approach to managing long-term conditions. By enabling early intervention and self-management, these tools can reduce hospital admissions and improve overall patient outcomes. However, for these benefits to be fully realised, we must address the infrastructure challenges associated with such digital advancements. The success of remote monitoring depends on its seamless integration within the existing NHS systems. Ensuring interoperability between these new technologies and the NHS’s current frameworks is crucial. Fragmented systems and inconsistent data-flows risk undermine the effectiveness of these solutions. Moreover, we need to ensure that robust safeguards are in place to protect patient data and maintain public trust. At HIC, we have worked with a range of NHS organisations and suppliers to overcome similar challenges. We have helped develop and deliver innovative pathways of care across the country. Through our work, we understand the complexity of the challenges and we have a proven track record of ensuring that these solutions deliver meaningful, measurable improvements for patients and clinicians alike. Like you, we believe that collaboration will be key to the success of Labour’s vision for the NHS. That is why we commit to to working you, the NHS and suppliers to ensure that the necessary infrastructure is in place to make this plan succeed. We need to work together to develop clear frameworks for tracking the effectiveness of these tools and ensuring they deliver on their promise. We recognise the importance of responding to your call to action: https://lnkd.in/eHCsWKe8. HIC is committed to responding and we call on others in the sector to do the same. It is only by collectively embracing change and innovation that we can ensure the NHS continues to deliver world-class care in the face of growing demand and ever-changing health challenges. We would welcome the opportunity to meet to discuss how HIC can serve as a key ambassador for this important work. We are committed to supporting and serving the NHS we all value and love, helping it deliver the best outcomes for patients and the wider healthcare system. #HealthcareAmbassadors, #CollaborateForNHS, #InnovationForNHS

✍️ A new essay: "For an Unremarkable Health System" 🏃🏼 We often celebrate remarkable achievements in healthcare — hospitals excelling on certain metrics or clinicians winning prestigious awards. But what if we shifted our focus to pursuing an “unremarkable” healthcare system instead? I examine this thesis in a new essay for Healthcare Quarterly. 🚶🏼 An unremarkable system performs consistently well across all indicators that matter to patients, without major deviations. It delivers “decent enough” results deserving of careful monitoring, but nothing remarkable that raises concerns. Rather than chasing a few standout metrics, an unremarkable system provides a balanced, holistic experience for patients across the care continuum. It seeks to maximize health and welfare for everyone by lifting all boats through quality improvement. Unremarkability requires a culture change from our tendency to seek to outclass peers. Doing “okay enough” all the time may be better than excelling in some areas while failing in others that impact patient care. 🙏🏻 Thank you to my editors at Longwoods Publishing… and to Zain Mujtaba, a spark of inspiration to me on this topic, and so many more! Neil Stuart Anne Wojtak Susmita Dey Dalla Lana School of Public Health, University of Toronto

Following the success of Visions4Health's inaugural fireside chat in the summer, our 👩⚕️ Healthcare System Council 👨⚕️ met again last week to discuss another hot topic 👉 what does the recent Lord Darzi investigation into the NHS mean in reality? What are the real hopes and fears of those working at the coal face. 📣 The overarching message is that no matter where an NHS stakeholder sits within the system, they all want to achieve the same outcome of system integration. However, their hopes and fears very much reflect where they work. For example, those in Acute Trusts have hopes and fears around performance measures and digital interconnectivity, while those in primary care have a focus on capability and capacity to achieve the shift away from acute centered care. ⚡ To read more detailed insight on this ‘hot topic’ and to find out more about the Visions4Health fireside chat series visit: https://lnkd.in/eMAnkAPB ⚡ To find out more about the Visions4Health Healthcare System Council visit: https://lnkd.in/e_8UmxBd ⚡ To read our in-depth analysis of how Lord Darzi’s investigation will impact the life sciences industry please visit: https://lnkd.in/e4y7GbHa Visions4Health is your #gatewaytolocaladoption #healthcaresystemcouncil #nhs #marketaccess #lifesciences #pharmaceuticalindustry #medicaldevices

The Darzi report shined a light on the challenges our NHS is facing, calling for bold and urgent action. In one of our latest articles, Karl Houlding and Polly Cook discuss: ✨ How the NHS can move from isolated services to a connected network. 💻 The critical role of digital transformation in improving patient outcomes. 🗣️ Amplifying patients' voices to create systems that work for all. 🤝 Collaborating with community organisations to ease pressure on hospitals and boost preventive care. https://lnkd.in/eAzqrehA

Crucial Call to Action: Preserve Public Health Research As a committed member of the healthcare research community, a major update that could significantly impact our work and the health outcomes of millions of Americans.   Last Monday, CMS announced plans to terminate existing institutional access to critical Medicare & Medicaid data – a move that threatens to undermine public health research and innovation. This policy change could severely affect the landscape of public health research by shifting to provide Medicare & Medicaid data access exclusively through a highly expensive and restricted channel. This decision poses a substantial barrier to the progress we’ve made in public health research, potentially slowing down, or even halting, the advancements we strive for daily.   This matter isn’t just concerning UCSF; it affects every researcher and institution dedicated to improving healthcare through data-driven knowledge. Consider the groundbreaking studies that have stemmed from such data – studies that have led to enhanced care for older patients with dementia or that have identified paths to substantial savings in Medicare spending.   This change will not only impede our capacity to uncover new insights but will also heavily burden junior researchers and those at institutions with limited resources. It’s a blockade on the path to progress, affecting not only current researchers but also the next generation of healthcare innovators. At our institution, the ability to access this data has been a cornerstone for innovation, particularly benefiting vulnerable populations who are often the focus of our research.   We stand before a decision that could widen the gap in healthcare disparities rather than close it. Now is the time to act. Here’s what we must do: 1. Write to CMS and express our concerns about the implications of their decision on public health research and innovation. We need to challenge the necessity and ethics of making this critical data prohibitively expensive and difficult to access. 2. Contact our representatives in Congress to advocate for maintaining fair and necessary access to this data. We must highlight that the proposed changes would disproportionately affect those with fewer resources, ultimately impacting the health of our nation’s most at-risk populations. 3. Rally our professional networks to amplify our message and ensure that the voices of the research community are heard loud and clear.   The future of public health research is in our hands. We cannot stand by as barriers are erected that will hinder our shared goal of improving healthcare for all. Join me in taking a stand to maintain open and equitable access to Medicare & Medicaid data.   Together, we can influence this decision and continue our vital work to drive innovation and better health outcomes for every community. #HealthcareResearch #DataForGood #Medicare #Medicaid #CMS #HealthEquity #PublicData #PublicInterest #HealthcarePolicy #UCSF #TakeAction

This week on the blog: Are you familiar with the 4 untruths of the Canadian Healthcare system? Discover this, and how Health Bridge is changing the narrative. Read more here: https://zurl.co/pBhL