Owners urged to keep pets healthy in hot weather
The group said pale animals and those with little fur were more likely to be sun burnt and so should be kept in shelter and have pet sun cream applied.They recommended frozen treats and ice cubes as ways to cool animals down together with paddling pools or trays of water.Shade and water were essential to keeping animals healthy in the heat, they added.Jersey's bird experts stressed the importance of making sure garden birds have access to clean and fresh water throughout the day.Jersey Birds said birds also bathe at least once a day so clean full water bowls were essential.
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- The Guardian
NHS in England told to slash recruitment of overseas-trained medics
Hospitals and GP practices in England will be told to slash the number of overseas-trained doctors and nurses they recruit under government plans for the NHS that will be published on Thursday. Graduates of UK medical schools will be given priority as part of a drive to reduce the health service's dependence on medics from abroad. NHS care providers will be told to cut the number of doctors they hire from overseas from 34% to under 10% to give homegrown medics a better chance of progressing their careers. A large and growing number of UK-trained medical graduates have found themselves 'in career limbo' after failing to secure a specialty training post – the first step on the ladder to becoming a consultant or GP. The British Medical Association has said that about 20,000 doctors applying for training positions in the NHS across the UK this year will be denied one in their chosen specialism because there are too few available. The edict on overseas recruitment will be outlined in the government's 10-year plan to improve the NHS and public health in England. It will say that UK-trained doctors will be given priority for places in NHS postgraduate medical training. The plan highlights that the world is likely to be facing a shortage of 11 million health professionals – doctors, nurses and midwives – by 2030 due to the ageing population and growing demand for healthcare. 'That means it will neither be possible nor ethical to maintain our current levels of international recruitment. We need to reduce the NHS's dependence on overseas staff from its current level, where 34% of new recruits have a non-UK nationality,' the report states. The NHS in England has employed much larger numbers of overseas-trained doctors, nurses and midwives in recent years, especially since 2020, the year the UK left the EU as a result of the 2016 Brexit vote. Many doctors are from India, Pakistan and Nigeria while a significant numbers of nurses are from India and the Philippines. Some are from poor 'red list' countries in Asia and Africa that the World Health Organization has urged wealthier nations not to recruit directly from because it could weaken their health systems. Wes Streeting, the health secretary, has repeatedly criticised the NHS for employing too many foreign doctors and said recruitment from 'red list' countries was 'immoral'. A separate section of the 10-year plan promises to 'tackle bottlenecks in medical training pathways'. It blames the last Conservative government for letting international medical graduates apply for places on the same terms as UK graduates. 'Undergraduate medical places have been expanded without a commensurate expansion in postgraduate training places, compounded by the 2020 decision to open competition for postgraduate medical training to international trainees on equal terms with UK-trained graduates,' the report says. 'As a result competition ratios for postgraduate places increased from 1.9 applications per place in 2019 to nearly five per place in 2024.' The plan says the government will work to prioritise UK medical graduates for foundation training and to prioritise UK medical graduates and other doctors who have worked in the NHS for a significant period for specialty training. According to the General Medical Council, 329,439 doctors are registered to work in the UK. Of that total, 188,492 (57.2%) were trained domestically, 25,886 (7.8%) in the European Economic Area – the 27 EU states plus Norway, Iceland and Lichtenstein – and the other 115,061 (34.9%) in the rest of the world, mainly Asia and Africa.
Telegraph
17 minutes ago
- Telegraph
NHS ‘passports' will see new innovations rolled out to cut red tape
Mr Streeting said it would mean an end to the 'postcode lottery for life-saving products', while 'companies will be able to get their technology used across the NHS more easily'. An example of such innovations include special wound dressings, rapid flu testing and artificial intelligence appointment booking platforms. New wound dressings are reducing infections by 38 per cent at Barking, Havering ∧ Redbridge University Hospitals and could be adopted across the country, the Department of Health said. Rapid flu testing at University Hospitals Dorset has cut the time patients spend in hospital alongside antibiotic use. Roll out of technology Dr Benyamin Deldar, a clinical entrepreneur fellow at NHS England and the co-founder of Deep Medical, which runs an AI booking system already used by some NHS hospitals, told The Telegraph it would save up to 'six months of red tape'. The AI system predicts no-shows based on a range of factors and maximises doctors time by reducing the chance of a missed appointment, cutting them by up to 30 per cent. 'Deploying in each new trust can take up to nine months because the same Information Governance checks are repeated; an 'innovator passport' would cut between three to six months of red tape, letting patients benefit far sooner,' said Dr Deldar. The passport will be introduced over the next two years and will mean technology that has been robustly assessed by one NHS organisation can easily be rolled out to others. The Department of Health said this would remove 'needless bureaucracy' and create a 'dynamic best buyer's guide', while also helping boost economic growth. MedTech Compass aims to make these innovations, and the evidence underpinning them, clearer to buyers within the NHS. 'Positive step' Dr Vin Diwakar, the clinical transformation director at NHS England, said: 'We're seeing the impact improvements to technology are having on our everyday lives on everything from smartwatches to fitness trackers – and we want to make sure NHS patients can benefit from the latest medical technology and innovations as well. 'The new innovator passports will speed up the rollout of new health technology in the NHS which has been proven to be effective, so that patients can benefit from new treatments much sooner.' Matthew Taylor, chief executive of the NHS Confederation, which represents health organisations, said it was a 'positive step towards reducing duplication, making innovation more agile and accessible, and streamlining how technology is rolled out across the health service'. 'But it will be vital to ensure that important compliance processes are also kept in place to safeguard clinical and patient safety, data protection and strict Medtech regulation,' he added.
BBC News
20 minutes ago
- BBC News
Trimmed tree fightback 'poses danger to drivers' says councillor
Trees heavily pruned by council workers are now set to be trimmed again after they sprouted leaves along their trunks, which a councillor says pose a hazard to pedestrians and trees in Bramcote Road, Beeston, Nottinghamshire, were originally 'pollarded' - a process where several large branches are trimmed trees reacted to being pollarded by activating dormant growth points beneath their bark called epicormic buds, which have in turn grown dense leaves down to ground level. Councillor Steve Carr said the new growth restricts the view of both motorists and pedestrians. He has reported the matter to the council, which is now set to return to trim away the new growth. Mr Carr, an independent district and county councillor, said: "I saw these trees I thought 'how on earth are people going to get past'? "There is a school nearby so you have parents and children having to walk in the road, which isn't ideal."And the view for drivers, both of people and parked cars, is also obscured."Mr Carr said he contacted the county council and was told they planned to trim the branches in August or September."I said it shouldn't take that long, people are having to deal with this now," he said."It is a little ironic that the county council is sending out messages to people about cutting their hedges and trees and giving them two weeks to take action, but when it comes to them, they say they can't do anything for more than six weeks!"A highways manager from Nottinghamshire County Council said: "We're aware of epicormic growth on trees along Bramcote Road in Beeston and it is due to be removed as part of our planned maintenance programme which will start soon."Bramcote Road is one of over 450 streets across the county included in our epicormic growth removal programme."Where residents notice problems with trees or other issues on the highway, we ask that they continue to report them to us either through our website or the MyNOTTS App."
