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£325m funding for NHS transformation projects
The Government has announced £325 million of capital investment for local projects that will help the NHS to modernise and transform care for patients. Local capital investment schemes in 15 areas of the country have been given the go ahead, with the largest sums being used for urgent care in Dorset, surgery in Greater Manchester and cancer care in Cumbria. The projects receiving funding include the
following:
In Greater Manchester, up to £50m will be made available to help hospitals deliver significant improvements in urgent and emergency care by concentrating services in four hub sites across the city, expected to save around 300 lives each year in general surgery alone. In Cumbria, between £30 and £50m will be used to improve access to chemo and radiotherapy by establishing a brand new cancer centre, complete with new equipment at Cumberland Infirmary in Carlisle. In Derbyshire, up to £30m will be invested to create an ‘Urgent Care Village’ at the Royal Derby with GP services, a frailty clinic and mental health services to ensure patients
receive the right care in the right place, first time, and avoid going to A&E unnecessarily. This initial funding has been targeted at the strongest and most advanced schemes in the STP categories based on an assessment of leadership and service performance. All plans have been developed locally in consultation with the public.
The funding was secured in the Budget in March when the Government also committed to make further capital investment available in the forthcoming Autumn Statement. Health Secretary Jeremy Hunt (pictured)
said: “This funding will support strong local plans to help the NHS modernise and transform care for patients. “A measure of success of these transformation
partnerships is that people can see and feel improvements being made in their local area – there are already excellent examples of this across the country and this money will allow them to go further and faster.” The strongest STPs have performed well across indicators in three broad areas: hospital performance, patient-focused change, and transformation.
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Study shows more people surviving heart failure
Hundreds more people are surviving heart failure, a new independent study has found. A report published last month (August) found that the mortality rate for people admitted to hospital with heart failure has dropped from 9.6% to 8.9%. The reduction in the mortality rate means that in the region of 500 lives have been saved in the past year compared to 2014/15.
An assessment of patients admitted to hospital with heart failure at NHS Trusts also shows that more people are being provided with crucial medicines for heart disease as well
as greater access to treatment by heart specialists. Acute heart failure is a life threatening condition, which as well as immediate danger to life can have significant long-term consequences for people. Tackling heart failure is becoming a more significant challenge for the NHS due to the ageing population.
The findings come from a new independent audit of NHS services to treat acute heart failure between April 2015 and March 2016. The National Heart Failure Audit is based on an analysis of 66,695 admissions to English
and Welsh hospitals where the patient’s main diagnosis is for heart failure. This is the largest audit ever, using data from 82% of all heart failure admissions in England and 77% of those in Wales.
The audit of NHS heart failure performance shows that: l The mortality rate for people treated for heart failure has decreased for inpatients and for 30 days and one year after treatment.
l 80% of patients reporting heart failure at hospitals in England and Wales were seen by specialists.
l Nine in 10 patients admitted to hospital received an echocardiogram, the key diagnostic test in heart failure conditions.
l The number of people being treated for heart failure with reduced ventricular ejection fraction, who were seen by a specialist and received all three of the key prescriptions for this condition, has increased from 45 to 47%.
Sir Bruce Keogh, national medical director at NHS England, said: “This independent study shows that improvements to NHS heart failure services have had a significant positive impact for people suffering this devastating condition. Increasing numbers of patients are getting specialist help and the full range of treatments thanks to years of world-leading scientific and clinical research and the efforts of NHS staff.”
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