End of Life Care
25/01/2012
Have you had experience of hospital and community services through the care and support of family or friends? Do you belong to a support or care group associated with long term or terminal illness?If the answer is "yes", to either or both these questions, this is an invitation to join a Patient and Public Reference Group to support the development of an End of Life Care Strategy for Portsmouth and South East Hampshire.The vision of the End of Life Strategy is to enable adult patients to re...
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Getting ready for a cold snap? Do you provide emergency help in the case of adverse weather?
24/01/2012
As the Volunteer Centre for Buckinghamshire, Community Impact Bucks is about to run a recruitment campaign raising awareness of the need for volunteers who would be available to help their neighbours or vulnerable people in their local community in the case of bad weather or other emergency. This might be collecting a prescription, clearing snow or other blockages, delivering essential groceries or simply checking that someone is alright. The recruitment campaign will start in early February and...
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Better Healthcare in Bucks: consultation on changes to local health services
24/01/2012
The NHS in Buckinghamshire has been working together to look at how to develop health services that better meet the needs of local people, through the Better Healthcare in Bucks programme. Over the past few months, doctors, nurses and other clinical colleagues have been meeting together through the Better Healthcare in Bucks programme to discuss current opportunities and challenges and to look at how services should develop. During September and October (2011) we held broader discussions wi...
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Eat better for less !
20/01/2012
One of the most popular New Year’s resolutions is to eat better so if you need some inspiration, the new Supermeals campaign provides tasty ideas for healthier, affordable meals that are quick and easy to make, fitting in with busy lifestyles. "We realise that families often want to lose weight and get fit after the festive season, but are also watching the pennies," said Dr Ruth Milton on behalf of the directors of Public Health for the Southampton, Hampshire, Isle of Wight and Portsmout...
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Top Ten Tips When Choosing a Support Provider
20/01/2012
User Friendly Guide on Purchasing CareVoluntary Organisations Disability Group (VODG) has produced a guide for service users and families on buying care. The guide is aimed at people requiring support for themselves, a friend or relative, and aims to provide help with what to look for when choosing a provider, as well as questions to ask in finding and paying for support. The focus is around issues where people needing support for themselves or family members have been confused around, for examp...
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Call for Evidence on Self-Directed Support Successes
20/01/2012
Using the learning gained form the development of self-directed support in the last few years, In Control want to make the next stages going forward as successful as possible in tough times by reflecting with partners on what works and what does not. A piece of work will be developed with a practical focus, linking with people and families needing self-directed support as well as commissioners and providers who deliver it. Key elements such as leadership, culture and co-production will be consid...
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Prime Minister Urged to Take Action on Social Care
20/01/2012
Last week Carers UK along with other charities, care providers, health colleagues and unions made up over 60 signatories on an open letter to David Cameron calling for cross-party action on social care reform for older and disabled people. The letter follows recent evidence of rising care costs to families and the NHS, and urges action to be taken to meet the challenge of the ageing population. The letter argues that currently the system is failing in light of this challenge, with consequent ris...
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King’s Fund Integrated Care for Patients and Populations
20/01/2012
The King’s Fund with Nuffield Trust has produced a paper in response to the Department of Health’s request for help in supporting and developing its national strategy on integrated care and to feed into the on-going work of the NHS Future Forum. The report examines the case for integrated care; barriers to overcome; what the DH can do to provide a supporting framework to enable integrated care to flourish; and options for support to those implementing integrated care.Recommendations ...
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Wash that bug right out of your air!
20/01/2012
There is still a prevalence of the winter vomiting bug, "norovirus", in the region and with local hospitals seeing higher numbers then expected, your NHS wants to help you help yourself and avoid falling ill."The winter vomiting bug can be a serious illness and although most people can recover from resting at home and drinking plenty of fluids; it is causing some more vulnerable people to need hospital treatment," said Dr Graham Watkinson, Southampton public health consultant for the Southa...
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Launch of SCAS campaign to encourage people to stop calling 999 for non-life threatening reasons
17/01/2012
Message from Duncan Burke – Director of Communications and Public EngagementSouth Central Ambulance Service (SCAS) is launching a campaign this Thursday in a bid to stop people calling 999 for non-life threatening reasons. With the service receiving 1,235 hoax calls and many more inappropriate calls from January 2011 to October 2011, this is an increasing problem that is putting people’s lives at risk. In a concerted effort to address this issue, SCAS is headlining the campaign with ...
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