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Chris Penfold Next Dr Ben Bowers explores community nurses’ views & experiences of their new or extended roles in palliative care. Larger case loads & more complex work. Opportunities but risk of moral distress Fragmented relationships w/ GPs left them feeling unsupported

Well that’s a wrap #SAPC2024! Huge thanks to Rachel Johnson and everyone in the organising committee for a hugely successful conference full of stimulating conversations - lots of evidence to give food for policy thought!

Summary of the evidence on changing workforce to deliver nursing care. TLDR: nurses do it better. Replacing nurses with people who are less well trained kills patients. Time to abandon workforce substitution across the NHS!

Brilliant conversation on BBC Radio 4 on experience of #carers and value of unpaid caring. Highlighting experience of carers who step out of paid employment to provide care, & challenge of returning to employment.

🆕 Becks Fisher responds to GP patient survey. Worrying figures show the new government must start with general practice. nuffieldtrust.org.uk/news-item/worr…

V grateful for excellent training today from NHS Providers (board development) it's been fantastic. Glad to get a quick break and refresh my head in Royal Papworth Hospital NHS FT 💙 gardens (& have a chat w Jake and Holly from respiratory outpatients!)

"Whenever I was in hospital, I felt that there was a tunnel visioned focus on the physical health of my body, detached from me as a sentient human being." Sarah Woolf describes how writing a simple note to hospital staff helped her heal bmj.com/content/386/bm…

Trigger warning - really stark, alarming findings about parent carers from Uni of Birmingham. Parent carers are so often forgotten, fall through the cracks between children's and adult services and are too often left without any support for them as carers(1) birmingham.ac.uk/news/2024/more…

The new government's priorities for the NHS | UCL Policy Lab - UCL – University College London ucl.ac.uk/policy-lab/new…

And conclude that enforcing illegal underpayment of the minimum wage must happen now and measures like a sector minimum wage and pay scale are likely to be needed. Read The Guardian’s write up here: theguardian.com/society/articl…

Thoughtful reflections from Ash James 💭 & Health Service Journal on first contact physios in primary care. We need more GPs. We need more FCPs. No one gains – least of all, patients – if it becomes a conversation pitching roles against each other. (hsj.co.uk)

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With a five-year mandate, there is a real opportunity for the new government to bring forward long-awaited reforms for social care & deliver on its promises. Camille Oung asks an impt Q: what has happened to funding earmarked for social care reform? nuffieldtrust.org.uk/resource/what-…

Agree with the need for evidence to drive policy - always important - but particularly in AI space. 𒊓𒅂𒁓𒐗𒐕𒐗 Steve the skeptic eloquently making this point. The mythbuster: The idea that AI can solve major NHS problems is marketing snake oil hsj.co.uk/daily-insight/…

Darzi 2.0: A full diagnostic assessment of the NHS may require uncomfortable investigations bmj.com/content/386/bm…

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Nice piece of analysis and commentary from Rachel Hutchings ⁦Nuffield Trust⁩ on #Carers working & employed within the NHS - getting this right by supporting working carers has impt implications for retention of highly trained staff. nuffieldtrust.org.uk/resource/what-…