Julia Ross has been appointed as the Chief Officer for the Bristol, North Somerset and South Gloucestershire (BNSSG) Clinical Commissioning Group (CCG)
Tyntesfield Medical Group was commended during a recent inspection by the Care Quality Commission (CQC) for utilising sports centres, dieting groups and charities.
Imagine the scene. Up and down the country, local NHS leaders are crowded into meeting rooms discussing information transfers and ambulatory care, when someone jumps up and shouts “I’ve had enough of sticky toffee puddings”!
NHS England will be leading a review of low value prescription items from April 2017 and introducing new guidance for Clinical Commissioning Groups (CCGs), with a view to substantially saving NHS expenditure in this area.
Dr Mary Backhouse, the chief clinical officer of NHS North Somerset Clinical Commissioning Group (CCG), says planned changes to North Somerset’s only A&E will not mean it becomes redundant.
St Brigas Residential Home for Adults with Learning Disabilities, in Jesmond Road, was visited by the health and social care watchdog last year, with the subsequent report this week judging the service to require improvement.
The NHS ‘Five Year Forward View’ identified the need to address three big challenges in order to meet the health and social care needs of the general public within the budget available.
Healthcare leaders in the district are urging people to reduce medication waste. Repeat prescriptions which are no longer needed and people taking their medication incorrectly contribute to the hefty £1.2million annual spend on medication waste