A new vision for Urgent and Emergency Care – Professor Keith Willett, director for acute episodes of care, NHS England:
We have just emerged from another winter where Accident and Emergency Departments up and down the country have been under unprecedented scrutiny.  There was a great deal of expectation that the system would simply collapse due to the ever increasing demands placed on it.  That it hasn’t has been down to a combination of the exceptional hard work done by A&E staff and robust planning that started back in May. A mild, albeit very wet, winter has also helped.  But it’s a common misconception that A&E teeters on the brink just in the winter. In fact, the pressures it faces are all year round. We all know that things can’t go on like this.

Making the NHS the safest healthcare system in the world – Dr Mike Durkin NHS England director of patient safety:
Patient safety has been a key priority in NHS England’s first year. There can be no question that it should always be of paramount importance to everyone working in the NHS, but safety quite rightly came under particular scrutiny following the inquiry into Mid Staffs by Robert Francis QC and the subsequent report into safety across the NHS in England by Professor Don Berwick and the National Advisory Group on the Safety of Patients in England.

Telehealth And Telecare – House of Commons Library 
Briefing paper that describes current UK telehealth and telecare initiatives and the role they may play in delivering future care. It is written to brief politicians to inform them that as the UK’s elderly population is growing and with it the number of people with long-term health problems. This is putting pressure on the health and social care systems. Increased use of technology such as telehealth and telecare may help to improve quality of care and reduce costs.

How Does Money Influence Health?
Joseph Rowntree Foundation Report that considers a large range of theories to consider how income influences health. It identifies four ways money affects people’s wellbeing:

• material,
• psychosocial,
• behaviour
• reverse causation.