A report on remuneration by The Doctors’ and Dentists’ review body (DDRB) discussed the changing needs of the younger workforce, often referred to as “Generation Y.” These are trainees and junior consultants aged between about 23-37 years. The DDRB discusses some of the supposed characteristics of “Generation Y” which are taken from a PricewaterhouseCoopers report. The report says […]
The King’s Fund’s June 2017 quarterly monitoring report (QMR) showed that NHS performance on key access targets over the financial year 2016/17 continued to deteriorate. For the ambulance response time, A&E four hour waiting time, and 62 day cancer treatment targets, 2016/17 was the third year in a row that performance was below the standard; […]
Mechanisms to reduce patient demand and workload for GPs have had limited success, as GPs are increasingly the “risk sink” that work gets dumped on. As well as contributing to burnout and subsequent problems with GP retention, workload is likely to increasingly affect patient safety. This is based on the reasonable assumption that the number of […]
Jeremy Hunt, newly re-installed as health secretary, is set to speak at the NHS Confederation Annual Conference this week in a speech that could set the tone on health for this parliament and potentially the future of the NHS. The election result may have brought a considerable amount of uncertainty, but there can be no […]
The prime minister has criticised current legislation without explaining what will take its place “I’m going to scrap the old Mental Health Act,” Theresa May said on Question Time last week. Her aim? To “introduce a new law which confronts the unnecessary detention that takes place too often.” The Mental Health Act allows doctors to detain, […]
Overstretched and underfunded, these are commonly cited challenges for healthcare—and ones that are difficult to overcome. My Dad used to talk to me about the “zone of proximity,” and I’m old enough now to admit that he was right, so I’m going to focus here on what those of us on the frontline can control. At […]
The future funding of our health and care system requires a national debate, says Niall Dickson. […]
For busy clinicians the general election may seem a superficial distraction. But is it? While not all political parties have published their manifestos yet, we’ve had clues from speeches and leaks. How might the main parties address the three biggest challenges: funding; staffing; and improving the quality of care? On funding growth, the decade to […]
Earlier this year when the World Economic Forum launched its annual 2017 Global Risks Report, an obvious question was whether the global community had learnt from the previous 2016 Global Risks Report. The evidence suggested that it had not, or at least not enough to have prioritised and taken effective steps to mediate risk and […]
Mark Davies discusses the key messages that he would pass on to other GPs […]