Platinum Award  for excellence in compliance 99.5% score

Platinum Award for excellence in compliance 99.5% score

Our Compliance team have been awarded  99.5% score, as a result we have received a platinum award for our excellent work OneCall24 are proud to announce that as the result from our recent audit, we have been presented with the Platinum award for excellence in compliance, scoring an amazing 99.5% for the work we do…

Elderly patients could be put at risk by pressure to empty NHS beds, warns social care chief inspector

Elderly patients could be put at risk by pressure to empty NHS beds, warns social care chief inspector

This article was taken from: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2017/10/18/elderly-patient-could-put-risk-pressure-empty-nhs-beds-warns/ By:Laura Donnelly, health editor  Pressures on hospitals to empty thousands of beds ahead of winter could risk the safety of frail elderly patients, the chief inspector of social care has warned. Andrea Sutcliffe said she was concerned that vulnerable patients would be moved into inadequate facilities, after councils were told funding…

As a senior doctor, I witness the NHS crumbling on a daily basis – I don’t know how much longer it can go on like this

As a senior doctor, I witness the NHS crumbling on a daily basis – I don’t know how much longer it can go on like this

This article was taken from: http://www.independent.co.uk/voices/nhs-staff-crisis-doctor-shortages-patient-care-suffering-jeremy-hunt-cuts-a8006521.html By: Novika Ramaiya  Doctors are falling asleep at the wheel, emigrating on mass and even committing suicide because of the stress – if the NHS doesn’t start looking after its staff, patients will continue to suffer When I entered the NHS back in the early Nineties as a junior doctor, it…

NHS provokes fury with indefinite surgery ban for smokers and obese

NHS provokes fury with indefinite surgery ban for smokers and obese

This article was taken from: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2017/10/17/nhs-provokes-fury-indefinite-surgery-ban-smokers-obese/ By:  Laura Donnelly, health editor  The NHS will ban patients from surgery indefinitely unless they lose weight or quit smoking, under controversial plans drawn up in Hertfordshire. The restrictions – thought to be the most extreme yet to be introduced by health services – immediately came under attack from the Royal College of…

While all eyes look to Brexit, our NHS is about to collapse

While all eyes look to Brexit, our NHS is about to collapse

This article was taken from: https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2017/oct/17/brexit-nhs-collapse-nurses-leave-flu-epidemic-hospitals By:Polly Toynbee  A perfect storm is looming as nurses leave their profession in droves. If a flu epidemic hits this winter, how will our hospitals cope? Brexit casts its shroud over everything. The no-dealers grow more wild-eyed by the day; though sterling drops, prices rise. Chris Grayling says we can dig…