Future-proofing the NHS: how the UK’s largest workforce is gearing up
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Future-proofing the NHS: how the UK’s largest workforce is gearing up

Byangie vallejo

This article was taken from: https://www.theguardian.com/healthcare-network/2018/may/23/future-proofing-how-nhs-future-uk-largest-workforce By Debbie Andalo , The Guardian As the service responds to changing developed Seventy years ago the NHS launched with a workforce of around 144,000. Since then, the health service has grown to become the single biggest employer in the UK, with 1.7 million workers across England, Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland, making it the…

Access to data helping to deliver the right care in the right place
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Access to data helping to deliver the right care in the right place

Byangie vallejo

This article was taken from: https://www.nursingtimes.net/home/your-nursing-career/access-to-data-helping-to-deliver-the-right-care-in-the-right-place/7024627.article By Tina Hanlon, Nursing Times There is huge value in giving nurses access to data on what is happening across their ward or organisation. For a start, it helps them deliver the right care to the right patient at the right time, and so avoids patients being kept in hospital…

Community services are key to the NHS. Why are they still marginalised? Chris Hopson
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Community services are key to the NHS. Why are they still marginalised? Chris Hopson

Byangie vallejo

This article was taken from:  https://www.theguardian.com/healthcare-network/2018/may/21/community-services-nhs-marginalised By Chris Hopson Providing more care closer to home would improve the lives of patients – and ease the pressure on our beleaguered hospitals The NHS is overstretched, underfunded, and short-staffed. Pressures are growing. The results were there for all to see last winter. Staff run ragged, patient discharges delayed, standards of…

London hospitals to replace doctors and nurses with AI for some tasks
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London hospitals to replace doctors and nurses with AI for some tasks

Byangie vallejo

This article was taken from: https://www.theguardian.com/society/2018/may/21/london-hospitals-to-replace-doctors-and-nurses-with-ai-for-some-tasks By Hannah Devlin Science correspondent UCLH aims to bring ‘game-changing’ benefits of artificial intelligence to NHS patients, from cancer diagnosis to reducing wait times One of the country’s biggest hospitals has unveiled sweeping plans to use artificial intelligence to carry out tasks traditionally performed by doctors and nurses, from diagnosing cancer on…

Growing resistance to antifungal drugs ‘a global issue’
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Growing resistance to antifungal drugs ‘a global issue’

Byangie vallejo

This article was taken from: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-44160730 By BBC Health News Scientists are warning that levels of resistance to treatments for fungal infections are growing, which could lead to more outbreaks of disease. Intensive-care and transplant patients and those with cancer are most at risk because their immune systems cannot fight off the infections. Writing in Science, researchers…