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And here’s today’s news from National Health Executive on Thursday the 1st of August 2024.
In what will be another huge stride towards sustainability targets, Manchester University NHS Foundation Trust’s Trafford General Hospital is set to become the first retrofitted carbon net zero inpatient hospital in the UK thanks to £18.9m of Public Sector Decarbonisation Scheme funding.
Approximately £10m will be used to revamp the hospital’s energy infrastructure, which is thought to be more than 50 years old. Effectively ending the hospital’s reliance on fossil fuel natural gas, MFT leaders will invest in modern low-carbon air and water source heat pump systems. The move represents the first time an existing NHS hospital has upgraded its entire energy system to completely decarbonise energy at the inpatient site. The work will take around two years to complete, with the new system slated for a spring 2026 launch.
In what the government has described as an “emergency measure”, changes to the Additional Roles Reimbursement Scheme are set to open the door for the recruitment of over 1,000 GPs. Under current rules, the scheme allows primary care networks to claim reimbursement for the salaries of 17 new roles within multidisciplinary teams. This includes paramedics, physician associates, and clinical pharmacists but does not extend to GPs.
The changes announced today by the DHSC mean that hundreds of newly qualified GPs will be able to enter the NHS workforce via this route in 2024/25. The government has said that this is only a short-term measure and that it will work with general practice to identify long-term solutions to unemployment and sustainability as part of the next fiscal event.
More than half of England’s GP practices took part in research during 2023/24, according to new data from the National Institute for Health and Care Research Clinical Research Network. The number of GP practices that participated in research — 3,606 — equates to a 12% increase from 2022/23. Around one in four people who were involved in NIHR CRN-supported research were recruited from primary care.
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