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And here’s today’s news from National Health Executive on Wednesday the 17th of July 2024.
New data shows that the public’s satisfaction with NHS Scotland has fallen to the lowest level since before the millennium, according to the Scottish Social Attitudes Survey 2023. In polling that acquired more than 1,500 responses, the Scottish Centre for Social Research found that 23% of people are satisfied with how the health service is being run in Scotland, while 52% are dissatisfied.
This represents the first time since 2005 that more people are dissatisfied than satisfied with how the NHS runs and lowest and highest levels of satisfaction and dissatisfaction respectively since the timeseries began at the advent of devolution in 1999. Satisfaction has fallen from 64% in 2019, which aligns with the separate statistic that 69% of respondents thought the standard of the NHS had fallen over the last 12 months — the survey was conducted between 12 September 2023 and 31 October 2023, for context. This is also the highest value ever recorded by the survey.
The NHS should build stronger partnerships with the voluntary and community sector if it wants to provide better and more trusted mental health care, according to a new three-year review. The report, led by the Centre for Mental Health, looked at a series of ‘alliances’ established by the charity Rething Mental Illness using funding from the Charities Aid Foundation.
It found that these services allowed their output to be tailored by those with lived experience of mental health issues, thus making services more effective and accessible. This can help professionals reach the people who are often overlooked such as LGBTQ+ and those from racialised communities, ultimately stopping patients from falling through the cracks. The sector is now calling on national bodies to secure more long-term funding solutions for the alliances so patients can benefit.
The UK is set to launch its national RSV vaccination programme this autumn, becoming the first country in the world to use the same vaccine for both newborn and older patients. The landmark initiative is expected to save hundreds of lives every year, while also freeing up thousands of hospital beds up and down the country.
The scheme, which will use Pfizer’s vaccine, will target women who are at least 28 weeks pregnant to help their newborns, while a campaign will also be run for those aged 75 and over. RSV is responsible for around 30,000 hospitalisations per year with those aged under five — this includes 20-30 deaths. For those over 75, it causes approximately 9,000 admissions.
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