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Martha's Rule is a patient safety initiative implemented in English NHS hospitals from April 2024. It gives patients, families, carers and staff in hospitals who have concerns about a patient's deteriorating condition access to a rapid review from a critical care outreach team. [1]
Batt-Rawden worked with several Royal Colleges campaigning for NHS staff to be prioritised for the vaccine, raising concern about rising staff sickness rates. [28] [29] [30] Recently, Batt-Rawden has been tackling abuse of NHS staff both on social media and in person. [31] [32] This prompted her to start the #NHSblueheart campaign. [33] [34]
It received praise for brevity, being only 39 pages, and lacking the illustrations which had graced its predecessors. Like the NHS Plan 2000 with which Stevens was also associated it was supported by the great and good of the NHS, but in this case it was regulators - Monitor, the Care Quality Commission and the like, rather than the Royal Colleges and Trades Unions of the earlier plan.
A second opinion can be a visit to a physician other than the one a patient has previously been seeing in order to get more information or to hear a differing point of view. [4] [5] Some reasons for which a patient may seek out a second opinion include: Physician recommends surgery. Physician diagnoses patient with serious illness (such as ...
The NHS Long Term Plan, also known as the NHS 10-Year Plan is a document published by NHS England on 7 January 2019, which sets out its priorities for healthcare over the next 10 years and shows how the NHS funding settlement will be used. It was published by NHS England chief executive Simon Stevens and Prime Minister Theresa May. [1]
Getting a second opinion can help you learn your options and find a treatment plan you’re comfortable with. Medicare will provide coverage when you need that second opinion.
The University Hospitals of Morecambe Bay NHS Foundation Trust was the first to deploy the technology in June 2010, which was in Release 1.9 at the time. [3] Humber NHS Foundation Trust was the first mental health organisation to use the DXC Lorenzo patient record systems in June 2012. [ 4 ]
The trust was formed on 1 October 2024 following the merger of Solent NHS Trust and Southern Health NHS Foundation Trust and also incorporates the community and mental health services formerly provided by the Isle of Wight NHS Trust. The merger was approved in November 2023 and was originally planned for April 2024, but was delayed twice. [1] [2]