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And here's today's news from National Health Executive on Monday, 22nd April, 2024. The Scottish government has launched its 1st ever genomic medicine strategy in a bid to improve diagnosis and enhance patient outcomes. The 5 year plan will focus on care, rare conditions, and inherited conditions. The Scottish health secretary, Neil Gray, said that this new strategy marks the first step toward developing a world class genomic medicine service in Scotland. This is agile enough to grasp the opportunities presented by this exciting and fast growing discipline.

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The Royal College of Nursing has announced that professor Jane Ball will lead the organization's new Institute of Nursing Excellence. Jane currently works at the University of Southampton as a nursing workforce and policy professor, where she investigates how things like staffing levels and shift patterns impacts quality of care. Jane's work will center around bringing the RCM's 5 academies together, which include the Nursing Leadership Academy, the Nursing Practice Academy, the Nursing Workforce Academy, and the International Nursing Academy, and the Activism Academy. RCN's deputy chief executive professor, Nichola Ranger, said the institute is the think tank through which we'll deliver our aspirational vision for nursing. And health care leaders from across the sector have responded to Rishi Sunak's welfare reform speech last week, where he announced a review into the fit note system.

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The review could see the responsibility for issuing fit notes taken away from GPs and given to staff with dedicated time and expertise according to the government. The prime minister said, we don't just need to change the sick note, We need to change the sick note culture so that the default becomes what work you can do, not what you can't. And that's the latest. Don't forget to like and subscribe to make sure you receive every new bulletin, and check out our stories in full on our website, nationalhealthexecutive.com.