Flexible working and e-rostering are key to keeping more nurses in the health service, a new report by NHS England suggests. The organisation has published a new analysis of its People Promise staff retention initiative, which has seen trusts offered support to implement changes to prevent staff from quitting. “I’d encourage all NHS organisations to prioritise retention” Em Wilkinson-Brice Of the 23 trusts that made up the first cohort of the programme, all but one recorded a significant decrease in their all-staff monthly leaver rates. Across all the trusts, leaver rates fell collectively by 11.8% more than non-exemplar trusts over…
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In the health care landscape, often dominated by discussions of senior care and chronic disease management, innovation is changing the spotlight to an increasingly overlooked but important population: children. “In major metro areas, when you actually map a 50% highest income postal code and a 50% lowest income ZIP code, there is often a 2-to-1 difference between pediatricians per person.” Recently, Bluebird, which raised $31.5 million to expand its innovative pediatric healthcare platform, aims to bridge the gap in access to primary care for children, especially Medicaid. Johnson said he aims to apply the concept of accessibility to pediatric care…
by Doug Donovan / Published March 4, 2025 It started with a simple idea in 2009 when I came to Sara Sandton while I was calling my house as a visiting nurse in West Baltimore. So Southernton began with 42 elderly Baltimore residents in a NIH-funded pilot clinical trial, sending out a rare team for home visits. Healthcare professionals and home repair workers improved the participants' physical exercise and physical environment, allowing them to age in a home that suits their specific needs. The 2012 grant from the National Institutes of Health's National Aging Institute launched hundreds of more definitive…
System architectureIoT-based healthcare systems utilize service forwarding to the appropriate patient. This deployment of an IoT environment enables ubiquitous and convenient patient access to related services. The ubiquitous data is stored in an authorized repository to determine access to secure users. In the healthcare industry, IoT detects the data; based on this, the service is provided on time. The computation time is decreased, and the patients handle the relevant information. The storing of relevant and irrelevant data is done on the repository; from this approach, the access level states the user’s health. This study proposes a fully decentralized authentication strategy…
At a time when many retail pharmacies are rethinking their strategies and cutting down their primary care services delivery, Emory Healthcare Network and CVS Health are curtailing that trend in Georgia.Emory is expanding its relationship with CVS' MinuteClinics in 35 locations. The partnership, which began in 2011, is evolving to provide more primary and preventative care options throughout the Atlanta Metro area provided by Emory Healthcare. It is part of Emory's ongoing push to expand access to Emory's primary care and find meaningful ways to address the shortage of key providers, says Emory Healthcare leaders.MinuteClinic Primary Care patients have access…
Nurses have helped to create a first-of-its-kind guide for making intensive care units (ICUs) more environmentally friendly. The resource will be distributed to every ICU in the UK and offers staff practical tips on how they can reduce the impact of their unit on the planet while maintaining good patient care. “This recipe book is a huge step in the right direction” Nicki Credland The Intensive Care Environmental Sustainability Recipe Book has been developed by the University of Brighton in collaboration with intensive care organisations including the UK Critical Care Nursing Alliance (UKCCNA). ICUs are a particularly resource-intensive area of…
Please listen to the article 5 minutes This audio is automatically generated. Please let us know if you have any feedback. Diving briefs: A report released Monday by the Commonwealth Fund and the George Washington University Milken Institute School of Public Health found that more generous federal support for health planning in the Affordable Care Act market could expire at the end of the year, leading to unemployment, particularly in the health care sector. According to the analysis, if the premium tax strengthening expires, the state's total national product would decrease by approximately $34 billion in 2026. Furthermore, economic output…
Text miningText mining, which involves extracting useful information and knowledge from large volumes of textual data, employs NLP and machine learning tools and techniques for information retrieval to process and analyse unstructured text15,26,28. The principal purpose of text mining is to capture and analyse all possible meanings embedded in the text15,26,28. This approach can uncover hidden patterns and trends in a variety of unstructured data sources, including academic literature, patents, news articles, social media posts, Twitter feeds and video transcripts. By employing text mining on scientific papers and patents to identify early indicators of technology trends, promising technologies within specific…
There is little certainty in life, but inevitably, we all become healthcare consumers at some point. Whether it's the birth of a child, catching a sniffle case or caring for a loved one, the health care system touches all of us at some point in our lives. Despite its ubiquity, the system is plagued by inequality and inefficiency, but these challenges also present important opportunities for improvement and innovation.This was the guide to UCLA Anderson's 11th Vitals Conference, a sold-out event exploring groundbreaking discoveries that define the future of HealthTech. Organized by the Student-Rated Healthcare Business Association, Vitals was established…
Workers, lawmakers and representatives from Athena attended a hearing Thursday morning on the possibility of the Sheriden Woods Health Care Centre closure. Bristol, Connecticut – The Athena Nursing Home at Sheridan Woods Health Center in Bristol is on a permanent closure road, but many people are making sure that doesn't happen. “It's heartbreaking,” said Katie Lary, a resident of Sheriden Woods. Wilton Haws, who lives in the house, says he hates seeing this place close by and has to fight to keep it open. “It's a great facility,” Haws said. Many friendships have been formed at the facility, and this…