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Charity's donations helps twins settle down in special cots

New sets of twins born in Croydon now benefit from two new twin cots, thanks to generous donations of NHS supporters and the work of the Croydon Health Charity. Close comforts: new-born twins can stay together during their early days in Croydon University Hospital, thanks to donations for new twin cots The purchase of the cots was possible only thanks to a generous £3,885 donation from the…

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Princess Anne, Patron of the Royal College of Midwives (RCM), visiting Croydon Health Services NHS Trust on 15 September 2020.

The Princess toured the maternity unit and spent time with midwifery teams, who shared their experiences of delivering babies during the Covid-19 pandemic.

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Christian nurse harassed by hospital for years over cross necklace wins lawsuit

Christian nurse harassed by hospital for years over cross necklace wins lawsuit

The Employment Tribunal in the United Kingdom ruled in favor last week of a Christian nurse who said she was forced into resigning from her job at a London hospital after being harassed over her cross necklace for years. Mary Onuoha took legal action against Croydon Health Services NHS Trust after resigning in June 2020 following years of being targeted for wearing a small cross necklace that she…

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Tribunal rules in favour of Nigerian Catholic nurse forced to leave job in UK for wearing cross

Tribunal rules in favour of Nigerian Catholic nurse forced to leave job in UK for wearing cross

A Catholic NHS nurse who was “forced out” of her job for wearing a “bacteria-harbouring” crucifix around her neck was unfairly dismissed, a tribunal has ruled.   Mary Onuoha, 61, was harassed and victimised by Croydon Health Services NHS Trust when she was told to stop wearing the cross due to an infection risk, according to the ruling.     It added that this had created a “humiliating, hostile…

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Tuesday 23 November 2021

I am currently visiting Croydon University Hospital for an X-ray (my left knee).

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It's Stress Awareness Month and we're heading into exam season. Whilst we all feel nervous and tense about our exams, too much stress and pressure can leave you feeling anxious, which can affect your sleep, appetite and ability to concentrate on revision etc.

We’ve created this list of top tips on how to stay on top of exams and revision:

1. Think realistically and be realistic with your time - an over ambitious revision timetable is going to stress you out and leave you feeling like a failure. 2. Although it might feel daunting, getting started is always better than doing nothing. 3. Reward yourself regularly and don’t forget to take breaks! 4. Take one step at a time and avoid thinking about the worst case scenario - don’t let your thoughts snowball! 5. Revise and do the best that you can do - that is all that you can do. 6. Check out the web for lots of useful resources - we recommend Young Minds, The Mix and Student Room as places to look for tips and help. 

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Here are things you can do if you’re struggling and need some help:

1. Sign up to our free online workshops to get tips and ideas to cope with exam stess: www.talkofftherecordonline.org Wednesday 18th April, 5.30pm and Thursday 17th May, 7pm.

2. Come along to one of our weekly drop in Sutton, Merton and Croydon to talk to someone in person:

Sutton - Tuesdays from 3.30-5.30pm at Off The Record Sutton, 172 Croydon Road, Beddington CR0 4PG. There’s no need to book an appointment. If you want to talk to some first, call 020 8680 8899

Merton - Fridays from 3-6pm at Wandle Valley Resource Centre, Church Road, Mitcham CR4 3BE. Call 020 8680 8899 if you want to talk to someone first.

Croydon - Ring Off the Record on 020 8251 0251 or email croydon@talkofftherecord.org to arrange a time to meet with a counsellor (tell us you’re worried about your exams when you call)

There will also be support available at your school. Ask one of your teachers or speak to your school counsellor or school nurse. 

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If any pressures are getting too much and you feel unsafe, talk to an adult who you know and trust or contact your GP for an emergency appointment.

You can call Samaritans on 116 123 or Childline on 0800 1111.

Merton & Sutton - If you need support between 5pm-9am weekdays, you can call 0800 028 8000 to speak to someone at the local NHS Trust Crisis Line. This is also open 24 hours on weekends and bank holidays.

Croydon - If you need support in a crisis you can call the 24 hour crisis number which is 0800 731 2864 to speak to someone at the local Mental Health Trust Crisis Line.

Professionals or other adults can also make a referral to CAMHS (Child & Adolescent Mental Health Services), to access regular ongoing support or counselling.

You can download all this information from our website.

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'Turning point': UK giving 1st doses of COVID-19 vaccine | National News

LONDON (AP) — British health authorities rolled out the first doses of a widely tested and independently reviewed COVID-19 vaccine Tuesday, starting a global immunization program that is expected to gain momentum as more serums win approval.

The first shot was given to Margaret Keenan, who turns 91 next week, at University Hospital Coventry, one of several hospitals around the country that are handling the initial phase of the program on what has been dubbed “V-Day.”

“I feel so privileged to be the first person vaccinated against COVID-19,” said the former jewelry shop assistant, who wore a surgical mask and a blue Merry Christmas T-shirt decorated with a cartoon penguin wearing a Santa hat and red scarf. “It’s the best early birthday present I could wish for because it means I can finally look forward to spending time with my family and friends in the New Year after being on my own for most of the year.”

The first 800,000 doses are going to people over 80 who are either hospitalized or already have outpatient appointments scheduled, along with nursing home workers. Others will have to wait their turn.

Public health officials have asked the public to be patient because only those who are most at risk from the virus will be vaccinated in the early stages. Medical staff will contact people to arrange appointments, and most will have to wait until next year before there is enough vaccine to expand the program.

Stephen Powis, the national medical director of England’s National Health Service, said the first shot of this vaccine outside of a trial was an emotional moment.

“This really feels like the beginning of the end,” Powis said. “It’s been really dreadful year, 2020 — all those things that we are so used to, meeting friends and family, going to the cinema, have been disrupted. We can get those back. Not tomorrow. Not next week. Not next month. But in the months to come.”

Buckingham Palace refused to comment on reports that Queen Elizabeth II, 94, and her 99-year-old husband, Prince Philip, would be vaccinated as a public example of the shot’s safety.

Public health officials elsewhere are watching Britain’s rollout as they prepare for the unprecedented task of vaccinating billions of people to end a pandemic that has killed more than 1.5 million. While the U.K. has a well-developed infrastructure for delivering vaccines, it is geared to administer them to groups such as school children or pregnant women, not the whole population.

The U.K. is getting a head start on the project after British regulators on Dec. 2 gave emergency authorization to the vaccine produced by U.S. drugmaker Pfizer and Germany’s BioNTech. U.S. and European Union authorities are also reviewing the vaccine, alongside rival products developed by U.S. biotechnology company Moderna, and a collaboration between Oxford University and drugmaker AstraZeneca.

On Saturday, Russia began vaccinating thousands of doctors, teachers and others at dozens of centers in Moscow with its Sputnik V vaccine. That program is being viewed differently because Russia authorized use of the shot last summer after it was tested in only a few dozen people.

The first shipments of the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine were delivered to a selected group of U.K. hospitals on Sunday.

At one of those facilities, Croydon University Hospital, south of London, staff members couldn’t so much as touch the vials, but they were thrilled to just have them in the building.

“I’m so proud,” said Louise Coughlan, joint chief pharmacist at Croydon Health Services NHS Trust.

The vaccine can’t arrive soon enough for the U.K., which has more than 61,000 COVID-19-related deaths — more than any other country has reported in Europe. The U.K. has more than 1.7 million cases.

The 800,000 doses are only a fraction of what is needed. The government is targeting more than 25 million people, or about 40% of the population, in the first phase of its vaccination program, which gives first priority to those who are highest risk from the disease.

After those over 80 and nursing home workers, the program will be expanded as the supply increases, with the vaccine offered roughly on the basis of age groups, starting with the oldest people.

In England, the vaccine will be delivered at 50 hospital hubs in the first wave of the program, with more hospitals expected to offer it as the rollout ramps up. Northern Ireland, Scotland and Wales are making their own plans under the U.K.’s system of devolved administration.

Logistical issues are slowing the distribution of the Pfizer vaccine because it has to be stored at minus-70 degrees Celsius (minus-94 degrees Fahrenheit).

The immunization program will be a “marathon not a sprint,” said professor Stephen Powis, medical director for NHS England.

Authorities also are focusing on large-scale distribution points because each package of vaccine contains 975 doses and they don’t want any to be wasted.

The U.K. has agreed to buy millions of doses from seven different producers. Governments around the world are making agreements with multiple developers to ensure they lock in delivery of the products that are ultimately approved for widespread use.

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BME Forum and NHS Health Day, Fairfield Halls, Mar 12

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The Princess Royal this afternoon visited Pooley Sword Limited, 1A Highdown House, Shoreham Airport, Shoreham-by-Sea, and was received by Rear Admiral John Lippiett (Deputy Lieutenant of West Sussex).

Her Royal Highness, Patron, the Royal College of Midwives, later visited Croydon Health Services NHS Trust Maternity Unit, Croydon University Hospital, 530 London Road, Thornton Heath, and was received by Colonel Jane Davis (Vice Lord-Lieutenant of Greater London).

Court Circular | 15 September 2020

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https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9025461/First-look-new-NHS-Covid-19-vaccination-identity-card.html#v-4658169259734158914

LIST OF THE 50 HOSPITAL HUBS IN THE FIRST WAVE OF COVID-19 VACCINE PROGRAMME

Mid and South Essex NHS Foundation Trust

Milton Keynes University Hospital NHS Foundation Trust

East Suffolk And North Essex NHS Foundation Trust

North West Anglia NHS Foundation Trust

James Paget University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

Norfolk And Norwich University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

Cambridge University Hospital NHS Foundation Trust

East and North Hertfordshire NHS Trust

Royal Free London NHS Foundation Trust

Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust

Croydon Health Services NHS Trust

St George's University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

King's College Hospital NHS Foundation Trust - Denmark Hill

King's College Hospital NHS Foundation Trust - Princess Royal University Hospital

Walsall Healthcare NHS Trust

Chesterfield Royal Hospital NHS Foundation Trust

Sherwood Forest Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

University Hospitals Coventry And Warwickshire NHS Trust

Royal Stoke Hospital

Northampton General Hospital NHS Trust

University Hospitals of Derby and Burton NHS Foundation Trust

United Lincolnshire Hospitals NHS Trust

Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust

Shrewsbury And Telford Hospital NHS Trust

Sheffield Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

North Cumbria Integrated Care NHS Foundation Trust

Hull University Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust

The Newcastle Upon Tyne Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust

South Tees NHS Trust

Wirral University Teaching Hospital

Liverpool University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

Countess of Chester Hospital NHS Foundation Trust

Salford Royal NHS Foundation Trust

Stockport NHS Foundation Trust

Blackpool Teaching Hospital

Lancashire Teaching Hospital Trust

Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust - Wexham Park Hospital

Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

East Kent Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust - William Harvey Hospital

Brighton And Sussex University Hospitals NHS Trust - Royal Sussex County Hospital

Portsmouth University Hospitals Trust

Royal Surrey NHS Foundation Trust

Yeovil District Hospital NHS Foundation Trust

Dorset County Hospital NHS Foundation Trust

Royal Cornwall Hospitals NHS Trust

University Hospitals Plymouth NHS Trust

Great Western Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

Gloucestershire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

North Bristol NHS Trust

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A thread on corona virus 🧵 🦠

There’s absolutely no reason why serious communications can’t have a concept or theme.

Great example of how to do exactly that within a Twitter thread.

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Today (Tuesday 16 November 2021) I visited Croydon University Hospital for a routine blood test.

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Sadiq Khan speech to Labour Party Conference

Sadiq Khan, Mayor of London, speaking at the Labour Party Conference in Brighton today, said:

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Conference, it's great to be back in Labour Brighton. And it's great to see our Labour Party so fired up under Jeremy Corbyn. Labour confounded all expectations at the general election this year. Let's be clear, Theresa May called this snap election to try and wipe us out. And boy did she fail. It was inspiring to see millions of people vote for the first time - especially so many young people. And it was inspiring to see so many people who used to vote for our Party return home to Labour. We made huge progress in the general election and the credit for that goes to one person – the leader of our party - Jeremy Corbyn.

He mobilised our movement. He motivated our activists and reached voters we hadn't reached before. Thanks to the hard work of Labour members and trade unionists, London elected four fantastic new Labour MPs. We now have a Labour Member of Parliament representing Battersea, Enfield Southgate,Croydon Central, and, yes, Labour Kensington. Let’s hear it for our Labour gains in London. Our new MPs: Marsha de Cordova; Bambos Charalambous; Sarah Jones and Emma Dent Coad. And by the way - hasn’t Emma been an amazing advocate for the neglected residents affected by the terrible Grenfell fire? As a united Labour family we're on the march. This year’s election came during an unbelievably difficult time for London, our capital,the city I love so much. It’s been one of the darkest times in London's recent history. We’ve been through too much suffering, too much horror, and too much loss. The terrorist attack on Westminster - the heart of our democracy. The attack on innocent people, enjoying a night out in London Bridge and Borough Market. The horrific fire at Grenfell Tower. The attack on innocent people near Finsbury Park Mosque during Ramadan. And the attack at Parsons Green station on Londoners, as they travelled into work and school. Nobody expects such tragedy. And no one should tolerate it. We prepare and practice for the worst, but we hope and pray it will never happen. Keeping Londoners safe is my top priority. And in all honesty, it’s hard - by far the hardest part of my job. It really does keep me awake at night. Fearing the call in the early hours that came too often this summer, to say the worst had happened. More innocent Londoners, who have experienced unimaginable horrors to help and console. More funerals to attend of those who have been killed. And always, always more to do to keep Londoners safe. But Conference - there are some people who spend their entire lives trying to stop these terrible events and who lead our response when they happen. Whose job it is to put themselves in harm’s way, every day, to try to keep the rest of us safe. And who do it with dedication, professionalism and heroism. Conference, please stand and join me to show your appreciation to our amazing emergency services. Thanks to our police officers, community support officers and staff. Thanks to our firefighters and control room operators. Thanks to our frontline NHS staff, and all who support them - our paramedics, nurses, doctors  and health workers. And thanks to our transport staff who are so often on the front line. On behalf of all Londoners - and the entire Labour Party - thank you for everything you do. You truly are heroes. In the darkness of this year the bravery of our emergency services has been a beacon of hope. We have witnessed incredible courage and self-sacrifice. Like PC Keith Palmer, who was tragically killed in the line of duty while protecting Parliament. Although he was unarmed, he didn’t hesitate before confronting the attacker. Rarely has a St George’s medal for bravery been so deserved. And our thoughts and prayers will always remain with his family and friends. Or take Colleen Anderson, a junior doctor at St Thomas’ Hospital. When she saw the attack from the hospital window, she rushed across the river to treat people lying injured in the road. Or Wayne Marques, the British Transport Police officer who, single-handedly, took on three armed attackers at London Bridge. Despite suffering terrible wounds, he fought them off until help arrived. Or the hundreds of firefighters, who went far above the call of duty to save lives during the fire at Grenfell Tower. Who took extraordinary risks with their own safety. And I want to say a special thank you to Dany Cotton - our London Fire Commissioner. Dany led the rescue operation at Grenfell Tower - going into the building and taking those risks alongside our firefighters. I want to thank Dany also for the honesty with which she talked about those awful scenes - and for being so open about receiving counselling after the fire. She’s encouraged many of our emergency responders and ordinary Londoners to do the same. And we should thank the brave Transport for London staff, who calmly helped during the attack at Parsons Green station - evacuating the train and leading people to safety - regardless of the risk to themselves. There’s no doubt that we face a growing threat. Experts say that the number of terrorist attacks this year is not a spike, but a long-term shift. And crime is on the rise again. The types of crime we see are more complicated and harder to tackle. Violent crime is rising even faster - with too many killed or maimed as a result of knife crime or acid attacks. And ever more young people are being groomed and radicalised by evil extremists - whether here or abroad. But Conference it doesn’t have to be this way. This all feels very familiar. A weak and divided Tory Government, refusing to face up to the challenges ahead. Bickering and infighting over Europe, putting our jobs and economy at risk. Chronic underinvestment in public services causing a crisis in our schools and hospitals. And crime on the rise. But Conference, this isn’t the 1990s. This is now. It’s like Back to the Future, but it isn't funny. Tory cuts to our emergency services have made it harder to keep us safe. A billion pounds cut from the Met Police - a billion pounds less for London’s policing budget. The result? Fewer police officers on our streets. Police stations closed. And neighbourhood policing under attack. Even police counter-terrorism funding has been cut in real terms. The same goes for our fire service. Fewer fire engines. Fewer fire stations. And fewer fire fighters. The same story is true in our National Health Service, our councils, our transport network and in every one of our public services. Conference - we simply can’t go on like this. The brave men and women of our emergency services can’t do their job when the Tories are cutting their funding every year.

 It must stop. The Government must give our emergency services the real-terms increase in funding that they desperately need - and right now. You know, the Tories used to describe themselves as the party of law and order. Well that sounds like a bad joke today. And frankly, as a former Home Secretary, Theresa May should be utterly ashamed of her record. Labour is the only Party with a plan to tackle rising crime. Labour is the only Party standing behind the men and women of our emergency services. And Labour is the only Party already making a real difference in towns and cities across the UK. A Labour Government will finally put an end to years of Tory cuts to our emergency services. And a Labour Government, led by Jeremy Corbyn, will finally give our emergency services the proper pay rise they so desperately deserve. Not the insulting offer made by the Tories. It’s Labour - in London, Manchester, Liverpool and Wales - that has a real plan to tackle violent crime - like gun crime, knife crime and acid attacks. It’s Labour that’s finally making social integration and community cohesion a priority so we can put a stop to the grooming and radicalisation of our young people.

 It’s Labour that’s finally made hate crime and violence against women and girls a top priority for the police. And it’s Labour that’s restoring community trust in our police, and making our emergency services more reflective of the communities they serve. You know it made me so proud to be the Labour Mayor when Cressida Dick was appointed as the first woman Met Commissioner in 188 years. And when Dany Cotton was appointed as the first woman Fire Commissioner in the brigade’s history. And you know what? They were both appointed on merit as the best people for the job. Conference, despite the challenges we’ve faced over the past year - I’m optimistic, positive and hopeful about our future. I’m so proud to call myself British and to call myself a Londoner. I’m confident that both London and the UK have bright futures ahead. That we can become a more prosperous, safe and equal country. And, Conference, I’m optimistic about Labour’s future too. Optimistic that we’ll build on the success of Labour in power in London, Manchester, Liverpool and Wales. That we’ll make more progress in the local elections next year.That we’ll make a huge difference to the lives of millions. That we can build a fairer Britain. A more prosperous Britain.  A safer Britain. And that Labour under Jeremy Corbyn will win the next general election. Thank you.

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Sensyne’s gestational diabetes AI app launches on the NHS

Artificial intelligence company Sensyne Health has launched a new app that helps women manage gestational diabetes, and five NHS hospitals have already signed up.

GDm-Health is a tool enabling remote management of gestational diabetes, reducing the need for expectant mothers to attend additional medical appointments and reducing pressure on midwives and NHS services.

The app, an approved device that complies with requirements in the European Medical Directive, allows patients to connect a blood glucose meter to their smartphone so they can monitor and securely submit real-time via an app.

Doctors can then review the results outside their usual antenatal appointments.

This frees up clinicians’ time to focus on the woman’s care needs rather than collecting and recording data, meaning they are able to prioritise care to women most at need.

Five NHS Trusts have signed contracts to use GDm-Health and the system will be available to their patients and midwives, following a two-year clinical evaluation in the NHS by over 2,000 women in partnership with Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust and Royal Berkshire NHS  Foundation Trust.

Three additional NHS Trusts will be implementing GDm-Health in the coming weeks, including Buckinghamshire Healthcare NHS Trust, Croydon Health Services NHS Trust and Milton Keynes University Hospital NHS Foundation Trust.

Gestational diabetes is a pregnancy-related disease that is increasing in prevalence, driven by demographic and lifestyle changes.

In the UK, the rise is predicted to reach a prevalence of over 16%, from a baseline of around 4% in 2008 and is a condition that without tight blood glucose control can lead to adverse maternal and foetal outcomes.

Results published in March 2018 from a randomised controlled trial for GDm-Health (203 participants), demonstrated its value to both women and the NHS including: statistically significant improvement in patient satisfaction, adherence to glucose monitoring, a reduction in caesarean sections, a trend towards reduction in pre-term births and potential for cost-savings to the NHS through improved patient outcomes.

Dr Lucy Mackillop, consultant obstetric physician at Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, said: “I am delighted that GDm-Health has made the transition to a commercial product and is available for implementation across the NHS. This is as a result of an enormous amount of work by the clinical and academic teams at Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust and University of Oxford and by Sensyne Health to have taken our prototype and transformed it into a sustainable scalable product.”

GDm-Health is one of a number of data-driven health technology applications under development by Sensyne Health in collaboration with the University of Oxford and Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust.

Anonymised data from these systems can be made available for analysis by the company, using its AI capabilities for medical research and to improve patient care.

GDm-Health is listed on the NHS Apps Library and has been the subject of a NICE (National Institute for Health and Care Excellence) Medtech innovation briefing [MIB131].

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Health visitors struggling with ‘dangerously high’ caseloads

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Health visitors struggling with ‘dangerously high’ caseloads

Well being website visitors are struggling to care for family members effectively because they have “dangerously high” workloads in which some are hunting after as quite a few as 829 children, a analyze displays.

Falling quantities of overall health website visitors signify that in most sections of England they are now wanting soon after much more – typically many much more – beneath-fives than the suggested optimum 250.

The results have prompted warnings that well being readers are so chaotic that they may perhaps fail to spot youngster abuse, domestic violence and postnatal melancholy and have as well little time to support mothers bond with their babies.

Wellness website visitors are nurses or midwives who have switched roles to concentrate on supporting families with young little ones. Ministers have praised their do the job as “absolutely crucial” in making sure infants and infants get a healthier begin in lifestyle and they undertake a collection of crucial checks in advance of and just after childbirth.

On the other hand, analysis by Dave Munday, a well being formal with the union Unite, has discovered that health website visitors in the London borough of Hounslow have common caseloads of 829 young children under 5 – the optimum in England. Equally, all those in Luton and Peterborough are just about every looking right after 756 children of that age, whilst in Croydon, south London, it is 591.

People are considerably above the 250 youngsters for each wellbeing customer restrict that the Neighborhood Practitioners and Well being Site visitors Association, a section of Unite, and the Institute of Wellbeing Browsing equally say is the maximum caseload if treatment is to be secure and of a large high quality.

“These findings are extremely worrying”, reported Munday, who attained the details underneath liberty of info rules. Since 2015, area councils have commissioned wellness going to providers, but most fork out NHS trusts to have out the work. It must be a “significant concern” that only 18 of the 132 companies that supplied figures experienced regular caseloads under 250, even though in 18 other people caseloads included 500 or far more small children, Munday included.

Last month the Care High quality Fee, which regulates the NHS, warned Birmingham Community Healthcare NHS have faith in that it was anxious about facets of its overall performance, including that its well being website visitors had been working with, on common, 500 families just about every.

Richard Kirby, the trust’s main government, told its 5,000 personnel that the CQC had voiced alarm about “the pressures dealing with community children’s solutions and primarily wellbeing going to and the challenges that these posed to our skill to offer harmless care for kids and families”. The belief has begun “an considerable programme of improvement” and circumstance hundreds now average 440, a spokesman reported.

Sarah Carpenter, Unite’s head of health, claimed: “With higher scenario loads there are improved hazards of toddler fatalities from inadequate wellness or abuse, of maternal mental wellbeing troubles that unspoken about could direct to makes an attempt at suicide, and undiscovered domestic violence with trauma for all involved. The incapability of individuals team remaining in the demoralised wellness visiting services to provide the services that they want and need to deliver potential customers to horrific lengthier-term problems for people, and a for a longer time-expression price tag for the NHS as it struggles to maintenance the harm prompted by deficiency of early intervention.”

Overall health guests in Brighton and Hove have the smallest circumstance loads in England, with just about every a single liable for just 73 less than-fives. Blackpool has the second smallest, with 87, followed by Wakefield with 101.

The selection of health website visitors rose from 7,849 in September 2010 to 10,236 in September 2015 for the reason that the coalition authorities built recruitment a priority. But that fell to 8,497 in September previous year and again to 8,016 in May well this yr, as councils reduce shelling out on general public health and fitness soon after their grants for that function from central government have been lowered.

A Section of Wellbeing and Social Care spokesman said: “Health site visitors enjoy a critical part in supporting moms and dads and babies across the state. Which is why NHS England, NHS Improvement and Health Instruction England are functioning with trusts on a selection of recruitment, retention and return-to-observe programmes to guarantee that the needed workforce are in location to produce harmless and effective companies.”

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Health charity pitches in to provide state-of-the-art incunator

Croydon’s tiniest hospital patients will now benefit from a state-of-the-art incubator, thanks to a partnership between Medequip4Kids and the Croydon Health Charity. New kit: the £30,000 incubator for Croydon’s largest hospital was only possible through charity provision The incubator features the latest technology such as thermo-regulation to deliver the best possible care for babies requiring…