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And here’s today’s news from National Health Executive on Tuesday the 16th of July 2024.
NHS experts are calling for the new government to create a better environment for integrated care systems to succeed in, especially through greater local flexibility and devolved decision-making. The King’s Fund’s Realising the potential of integrated care systems report looks at ICSs since their official inception two years ago and has found that solving issues in the immediate term has held ICSs back from working towards longer-term goals.
Health leaders have highlighted realism around progress speed; reinforcing local partnership working; and granting greater flexibility around national funding provision as ways that policymakers can help ICSs succeed.
The National Institute for Health and Care Excellence has recommended a new digital technology that could help the NHS cut waiting lists in children and young people’s ADHD care. The technology in question is Qbtech’s computer-based QbTest which tracks patient movement while measuring three core symptoms of ADHD: inattention, impulsivity, and hyperactivity.
Evidence from the AQUA clinical trial indicated that using the test in conjunction with a standard clinical assessment allowed for a larger proportion of people to receive a diagnostic decision within six months of an initial assessment.
The UK’s leading kidney research charity is calling on the research community to take urgent action to address the social and economic inequalities that put some people at greater risk of kidney disease, and can prevent patients from accessing appropriate care and treatment. In a new report, Kidney Research UK reveals inequalities due to age, sex, education, location or lack of wealth persist, despite widespread awareness of the barriers some people face.
Professor Liz Lightstone, trustee at Kidney Research UK and Professor of Renal Medicine at Imperial College London, said: “Eradicating unjust kidney health inequalities is an urgent priority and must become everyone’s responsibility, so that we can increase engagement and trust and deliver true change.”
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