Service veterans being helped by a North Wales charity have created an oasis of peace in a hospital garden. The outside area at the Ablett Psychiatric Unit at Ysbyty Glan Clywd, Bodelwyddan is being transformed by a group of volunteers.
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NHS England have issued a Patient Safety Alert signposting to newly published resources to support safer care for full-term babies. This is part of the Atain programme which is working to support the prevention of harm that can lead to newborns being admitted to neonatal units.
Thousands of newborn babies are being separated from their mothers unnecessarily in NHS hospitals, a report by the health regulator says. The number of babies taken away from mothers has soared by 150 per cent in just five years, with a third removed from women in their teens. The worrying figures showed more needs to be done to prevent the cycle of failure. Donna Ockenden supports Birte Harlev-Lam’s view.
A medical harness designed by a North Wales businessman to help pregnant women combat acute pelvic pain has won a top industry innovation award.
The Welsh Local Government Association (WLGA) said ‘reduced budgets have placed increasing pressure on services providing assistance to older people’. Age Cymru said isolation was a daily reality, with 75,000 older people ‘always or often’ lonely and called for a ‘national conversation’ on the issue before loneliness becomes an epidemic.
MAMA Academy has partnered with The London Ambulance Service to create call cards to improve response times when transferring pregnant mothers to hospital with the aim of saving more babies’ lives.
Donna Ockenden has written to members of the NMC to provide an important update covering significant developments in the world of midwifery (including supervision and regulation, statutory midwifery committee and indemnity arrangements)
Further media coverage of the issues surrounding Tawel Fan in response to the Ockenden report.
Darren Millar AM, Shadow Minister for Health asked the Cabinet Secretary for Health, Well-being and Sport for an update on the work of HASCAS and Donna Ockenden following the Ockenden report on Tawel Fan?
Vaughan Gething, Cabinet Secretary for Health, Well-being and Sport, has written to the families involved in the Tawel Fan investigation to outline next steps and about the introduction of an independent oversight panel.
The London Maternity Clinical Network have produced their latest highlight report. It covers headlines and activities about the Clinical Network Working Groups along with an update on the Maternity Transformation Programme.
Campaigners have accused a health board of risking patient safety and failing to learn lessons from a mental health ward scandal and staff have not been cooperating with investigators.