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• Official Statistics: Adult social care in England, monthly statistics: May 2024

  02-05-2024 10:30 via gov.uk
  
  Official statistics on a range of topics including occupancy, infection control measures and flu vaccinations in adult social care settings.
  
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• Transparency data: Birthday Honours 2024: Ambulance Service list

  14-06-2024 23:30 via gov.uk
  
  Recipients of the King's Ambulance Service Medal 2024.
  
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• Official Statistics: Adult social care in England, monthly statistics: June 2024

  06-06-2024 10:30 via gov.uk
  
  Official statistics on a range of topics including occupancy and infection control measures in adult social care settings.
  
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• Rise in hospital ‘corridor care’ is national emergency, union warns

  03-06-2024 07:00 via theguardian.com
  
  Royal College of Nursing says overcrowding is forcing practice that puts patients at serious riskOvercrowding is forcing hospitals to treat so many patients in corridors and storerooms that it constitutes a “national emergency”, the UK’s nursing union has said.The growing and widespread practice is endangering patients’ safety by leaving them without oxygen or easily able to attract staff’s attention, the Royal College of Nursing (RCN) warned. Continue reading...
  
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• News story: New restrictions on puberty blockers

  29-05-2024 18:06 via gov.uk
  
  New regulations restrict the prescribing and supply of puberty-suppressing hormones to children and young people under 18.
  
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• Closed consultation: Health and social care statistical outputs

  29-05-2024 16:48 via gov.uk
  
  We are seeking views on health and social care statistical outputs published by DHSC (including OHID), NHSBSA, UKHSA, ONS and NHS England.
  
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• Independent report: Making prevention everyone’s business

  24-05-2024 18:22 via gov.uk
  
  Professor John Deanfield’s vision for a modern, personalised heart health prevention service.
  
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• Open consultation: NHS Constitution: 10 year review (easy read)

  23-05-2024 18:27 via gov.uk
  
  Tell us what you think about our ideas for changes to the rules and promises the NHS makes.
  
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• Open consultation: Proposal for a ‘tie-in’ to NHS dentistry for graduate dentists

  23-05-2024 12:00 via gov.uk
  
  Seeks views on a proposal that would ensure that graduate dentists spend at least some of their time delivering NHS care after they complete their training.
  
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• Press release: New dentists required to deliver NHS care under government plans

  23-05-2024 01:01 via gov.uk
  
  Consultation asks whether newly qualified dentists should commit to delivering a minimum amount of NHS work after graduating or repay some training fees
  
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• News story: Migration numbers fall further as measures have major impact

  22-05-2024 15:39 via gov.uk
  
  Government action cuts migration on key routes by 25% in the first 4 months of 2024, compared to the same period in 2023.
  
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• Open call for evidence: Duty of candour review (easy read)

  22-05-2024 11:00 via gov.uk
  
  A review looking at how health and social care services should be honest and open with people when things go wrong. We would like to know what you think about the duty of candour.
  
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• Closed call for evidence: Duty of candour review

  22-05-2024 11:00 via gov.uk
  
  Call for evidence seeking views on the statutory duty of candour for health and social care providers in England.
  
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• Guidance: Prevent duty: guidance for healthcare professionals

  21-05-2024 17:22 via gov.uk
  
  Practical information for healthcare professionals about the Prevent duty, part of the government's counter-terrorism strategy.
  
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• Closed consultation: Our plan to improve the lives of people with ME/CFS (easy read)

  21-05-2024 15:55 via gov.uk
  
  The government has written a plan to support people who live with myalgic encephalomyelitis/chronic fatigue syndrome (ME/CFS).
  
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• Closed consultation: Improving the experiences of people with ME/CFS: interim delivery plan

  21-05-2024 15:53 via gov.uk
  
  We're seeking your views on an interim delivery plan to improve the experiences and outcomes of people with myalgic encephalomyelitis/chronic fatigue syndrome.
  
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• Government response: Secretary of State responds to the Infected Blood Inquiry report

  21-05-2024 01:00 via gov.uk
  
  Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, Victoria Atkins says the department will study the report to make sure lessons are learned.
  
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• Transparency data: DHSC: spending over £500, February 2024

  20-05-2024 12:21 via gov.uk
  
  Department of Health and Social Care spending by electronic purchasing card solution (ePCS), over £500.
  
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• The rightwing Christian group and the battle over end-of-life care - podcast

  20-05-2024 04:00 via theguardian.com
  
  The Christian Legal Centre is behind a number of end-of-life court cases that could be ‘prolonging suffering’, according to doctors. Josh Halliday reportsMedics treating critically ill babies and children are citing instances of “considerable moral distress” that they say is being caused by the actions of a rightwing Christian group involved in several end-of-life court cases.The Guardian’s north of England editor, Josh Halliday, tells Hannah Moore that while the Ch
  
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• Press release: £85 million pledged to tackle antibiotic emergency

  16-05-2024 01:01 via gov.uk
  
  Funding of £85 million will be announced at a global event to support the international community in tackling the growing threat of antimicrobial resistance.
  
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• Almost nine out of 10 nurses in England work when ill, survey finds

  16-05-2024 01:00 via theguardian.com
  
  Nurses ‘sacrifice their health and wellbeing’ to help plug gaps in rotas, Royal College of Nurses saysAlmost nine out of 10 nurses come into work when ill, according to research that lays bare the intense pressures staff are under in the NHS.Last year 85% of nurses still turned up for a shift at least once last year despite having issues such as stress, back pain, a cold, anxiety or depression.Seventy-one per cent feel they are under too much pressure at work.Sixty-six per cent say t
  
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• Press release: Government explores mediation with junior doctors’ committee

  15-05-2024 21:59 via gov.uk
  
  Both parties have agreed a preferred mediator - the union and the government will now begin the process of engaging with them
  
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• Transparency data: DHSC: spending over £25,000, February 2024

  15-05-2024 14:14 via gov.uk
  
  Reports on departmental spending over £25,000.
  
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• Press release: People with HIV can now donate eggs or sperm to start a family

  15-05-2024 02:01 via gov.uk
  
  Change in law will allow people with non-transmissible HIV to donate gametes to partners
  
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• Press release: Patients to benefit from largest expansion of choice in a decade

  15-05-2024 01:30 via gov.uk
  
  Patients requiring treatment outside of hospitals will be able to choose between multiple providers across the NHS and independent sector.
  
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• ‘So much death and upset’: the nurses quitting the NHS after Covid – a photo essay

  14-05-2024 14:16 via theguardian.com
  
  Working as a nurse in the NHS through the Covid pandemic gave Hannah Grace Deller a unique perspective on the hardship faced by her profession. She has photographed several nurses as they decided post-Covid to leave the serviceHannah Grace Deller works as a paediatric matron at St Mary’s hospital in Paddington, central London. She is also a trained photographer, and during the Covid crisis she began to photograph the conditions in which she and her nursing colleagues were working. Some of
  
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• Consultation outcome: Proposals to expand access to take-home naloxone supplies

  14-05-2024 10:30 via gov.uk
  
  The UK Government is consulting on proposed legislative amendments to widen access to take-home supplies of naloxone, without a prescription.
  
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• Press release: Expansion of life-saving opioid overdose treatment

  14-05-2024 01:15 via gov.uk
  
  New 10-year plan to expand and improve the drug and alcohol workforce published
  
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• Policy paper: EM on EU regulations 2017/745 & 2017/746 (COM(2024)43)

  14-05-2024 01:00 via gov.uk
  
  The government's summary of changes to the transitional arrangements for the supply of certain in vitro diagnostic medical devices within the Eurioean Union.
  
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• Speech: Health and Social Care Secretary speech at birth trauma APPG

  13-05-2024 21:25 via gov.uk
  
  A speech the Health and Social Care Secretary, Victoria Atkins gave at The All-Party Parliamentary Group on Birth Trauma on Monday 13 May, 2024.
  
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