NHS staff retention has declined over this decade and showed no improvement last year, the Health Foundation’s annual workforce review reported this week. The problem is most severe in community trusts, with an average attrition rate of 20 per cent (p.3), which, of course, leads to increased demand elsewhere in the system. “If staff shortages continue, this […]
The United Kingdom has a parliamentary election today, and after calling it seven weeks ago Prime Minister Theresa May was so confident of victory that she slipped into her manifesto a highly contentious plan to reform social care funding. Immediately dubbed a ‘dementia tax’, the plan was so unpopular in her party’s propertied heartlands that […]
This was going to be a blog about a meeting. On Friday Public World had a lunch meeting with Buurtzorg’s Jos de Blok and members of the four neighbourhood nursing teams that we are currently supporting to introduce the Buurtzorg approach to health and social care here in the UK. We were excited about bringing […]
Buurtzorg nurse Nanda Janssen and Public World MD were invited to the 1,000 Lives Improvement National Conference, organised by Publc Health Wales, at the end of March. At the end of our session, chaired by Public Health Wales chief executive Tracey Cooper, she asked the delegates if they would like to see Buurtzorg influence the […]
OSCA’s lead for public participation and leadership development, Richard Wilson, met with Public World’s Brendan Martin’s to ask about the early learning from Buurtzorg pilots in the UK. This is his blog.
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NHS England chief executive Simon Stevens was refreshingly candid recently when he told leaders of NHS provider organisations that they would have to manage without more money. That disappointed many of them, and their staff, especially those employed in the two out of every three trusts that finished the last financial year in deficit. But […]
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