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From the Bureau Editor
Thursday October 10
HSJ reports that the government is considering capping the elective recovery fund this year and therefore possibly hampering efforts to bring down elective waiting times. The BMA has set out its demands to end collective action, and the row about the rogue GOSH surgeon, Yaser Jabbar, continues.
Angus Wrixon
Editor
the briefing
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NHS Policy / Performance / Service redesign / £ / Covid inquiry
The government is considering “capping” the £3.2bn elective recovery fund this year - although the DHSC insists the NHS will have “the funding it needs” to deliver 40,000 extra appointments a week HSJ
GSK says it will pay as much as $2.2bn (£1.68bn) to settle thousands of cases in US courts over claims that a discontinued version of its heartburn drug Zantac caused cancer BBC
Mental health
Teachers are regularly helping pupils in distress in an attempt to fill NHS funding gap - three in four teachers put a pupil’s psychological needs before teaching at least once a week, UK survey reveals
NICE-recommended digital therapies for depression and anxiety could free up thousands of NHS therapist hours - NHS Talking Therapies for anxiety and depression services saw record referrals in 2023/24.
Public health
How technology and AI is reshaping public health Royal Society for Public Health
Primary care, pharmacy, dentistry, optical, community
RPS combat 100 million wasted prescriptions a year - The RPS and the RCGP have released guidance on repeat prescriptions for the first time in 20 years after it said 10% of the 1bn prescriptions issued in the UK every year are not required…
The BMA’s GP committee has set out a list of demands for the Government to meet in order to bring collective action to an end Pulse
BMA to financially support legal challenge to GMC over Physician Associates BMA
MHRA publishes business plan for 2024/25
Patients Association publishes its guide to Foundry - the Federated Data Platform developed by Palantir
Trusts
Lawyers representing children who developed long-term pain and injury after operations at Great Ormond Street Hospital have criticised a heavily redacted report carried out for the trust. More than 700 cases linked to the surgeon Yaser Jabbar are being reviewed including some involving leg lengthening and straightening BBC
Review of maternity services at Liverpool Women’s FT HSJ
what the bloggers are blogging
NEW! Climate change and heat-related mortality: will ‘summer crises’ become part of the NHS’s future? King’s Fund
NEW! Strengthening clinical leadership and management - Lessons from our research in the UK and US Health Foundation
NEW! “My report on the NHS diagnosed its dire condition. Now here’s the cure…” Lord Ara Darzi's IPPR Report sets out his cure in the Guardian
NEW! A New Fiscal Model to Deliver Prevention - Tony Blair Institute
The Observer view on the NHS: If it is to ‘reform or die’, let’s start with the way it handles our data
NHS Confederation: Extra appointments alone won't meet key government waiting time pledge - report in which it proposes work coaches in GP practices
Primary care networks (PCNs) explained Kings Fund
Let’s talk about social prescribing - King’s Fund’s Siva Anandaciva’s podcast
GP contract 2024/25 explained: funding, incentives and the workforce King’s Fund
10 early actions the government can take to improve NHS working conditions - Kings Fund
The state of NHS finances 2024/25 - NHS Confed Report
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