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In #health news today: Concerns are raised?Healthover the reduced mention of women in NHS advice, smoking is being targeted, snippets of the Messenger report are leaking out, and community pharmacists are concerned about rising levels of abuse they’re suffering.?
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Public health
Doctors' concern over reduced mention of women in NHS advice BBC
Smoking age should rise, government report to say BBC
Trusts
York - CQC issues warning as patients unwashed ‘for three days’ at trust under ‘extreme pressure’ HSJ
Clinical
‘Overdiagnosis’: some breast cancer treatments may have been unnecessary, study suggests Guardian
Trials of new Covid vaccine raise hopes of once-a-year booster - Moderna shot is said to produce eightfold increase in antibody levels against Omicron in first four weeks Guardian
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NHS Policy / Performance / Service redesign / ￡
Javid: ‘Extra pay for leaders in challenged areas’ HSJ
Good leadership does not have to be ‘an enormously resource intensive function’, the army general responsible for a government review of health and care leadership has said, ahead of its publication HSJ
‘Deeply disappointing’ ICS strategy criticised by council - the ICB’s plans to work with the public and patients have been attacked as ‘deeply disappointing’ and ‘box ticking’ by the chair of a local authority oversight committee. The joint health overview and scrutiny committee recorded that members found the engagement strategy prepared by Buckinghamshire, Oxfordshire and Berkshire West ICS “most unsatisfactory”. They concluded it “did not amount to any kind of effective engagement with the public” and needed dramatic improvement HSJ?
Messenger report: conflicting views on diversity - Javid said publicly “I would like to see fewer managers in terms of diversity managers and things, because I think it should actually be done by all management and all leadership, and not contracted out as some kind of tick-box exercise.”
However, when HSJ spoke to General Messenger he said: “The report does not recommend the reduction of EDI (equality, diversity and inclusion) professionals HSJ
Primary care, pharmacy, dentistry, optical, community
Community pharmacists speak out against rise in abuse and attacks BBC
Patients no longer required to wear face masks in GP practices Pulse
Workforce
Community nurses ‘paying to work’ as fuel costs rise above NHS mileage allowance iPaper
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