Wirral MP s Early Day Motion urges Government to pause NHS reform plan WIRRAL MP Margaret Greenwood has tabled an Early Day Motion urging the Government to pause plans for NHS reforms until all Covid-19 restrictions have been lifted and a public consultation has taken place. Ms Greenwood recently spoke out on the issue in the House of Commons following the Government s publication of its White Paper:
Integration and innovation: working together to improve health and social care for all. In the early day motion, the member of Parliament for Wirral West highlighted a number of concerns including:
Plans to divide the NHS into local statutory Integrated Care Systems create the potential for organisations which are not publicly accountable to take key roles in developing plans to address the health, social care and public health needs of local systems
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By Brian Waters2021-03-11T08:29:00+00:00
ICSs will be shaped by analysis of comprehensive data on the populations they serve, writes Brian Waters
The UK health and care system is rapidly planning and organising for a return to a world where traditional priorities come back fully into focus, alongside an acceptance that covid is probably here to stay. In the short term at least, there will be no “business as usual”.
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The system is confronted with the awful task of waiting list prioritisation on an unprecedented scale. This is taking place against a backdrop of the reorganisation of services across whole Integrated Care Systems, soon to be given a statutory footing.
Digital technologies may underpin primary care services beyond COVID pandemic
Mar 8 2021
Over the last twelve months, the NHS has been fundamentally reshaped. Plans and ideas that were bubbling away in the background for years suddenly received the green light by default. 2020 saw a huge increase in the adoption of digital technologies within modern healthcare economies.
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From the adoption of video-based triage and GP-to-patient consultations within primary care, to remote monitoring for shielding and vulnerable patients, as well as those discharged early from hospital – both within their own homes and a care home setting, digital technologies have driven wide recognition that there is an alternative way to manage clinical caseloads within a primary setting.