Peter Levin investigates aspects of the NHS in Cornwall, especially how decisions are taken, at all levels, and how they affect patients, in particular older people who are living with frailty. He looks at the NHS through a patient’s eyes as well as those of a scientist.

Do we really have enough hospital beds in Cornwall

Posted on 6 September 2021 by PL

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The NHS in Cornwall – as seen by a patient with a scientific background
Stand against digital exclusion: make GP Surgery information accessible to all
GP surgeries’ websites are useless if you need help in a hurry – thanks to NHS England!
It’s extraordinary! A plan to shift NHS healthcare ‘from hospital to the community’ that doesn’t mention community hospitals! It should have: there is much to be learned from them.
Hands off our Integrated Care Board! In Cornwall it is showing how an ICB can spearhead a mass campaign for better health.
Is NHS England fit for purpose?
GPs say they want to hear patients’ views, but they aren’t inviting patient participation groups to ‘road test’ their surgeries’ new websites
The NHS needs joined-up thinking: an open letter to the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care
Closing community hospitals in Essex and Cornwall: new dogs but same old tricks!
Closing Edward Hain Community Hospital: what we have learned
CONSULTATION: Closing a community hospital: how consultation went wrong
‘Overstaying’ patients in Cornwall’s main acute hospital: a problem that calls for careful monitoring and ongoing collaboration
Patient flow in an acute hospital: learning from system failures
GPs: Tell your patients how your surgery works
‘Choose well’ is not good advice to people in need of NHS care
Review of the draft Integrated Care Strategy for Cornwall & the Isles of Scilly
The PricewaterhouseCoopers report on the governance of Cornwall’s Integrated Care System: an opportunity missed
‘Medically fit for discharge’ does not mean ‘fit to go somewhere else’
Passing the buck to social care
How NHS England, top doctors and acute hospitals MANUFACTURE need for social care, and why we need to rediscover convalescence
How Cornwall’s Integrated Care System got off to a stumbling start
Cornwall’s Integrated Care Board is looking for a spin doctor
A wake-up call for general practice
If we want to keep our NHS, we need an alliance between GPs and patients
NHS England’s planning in disarray again as management consultants recruited to help with elective recovery
BED-BLOCKING: blaming it all on care services is buck-passing
Should you ask management consultants to design your integrated care system?
GOOD-PRACTICE GUIDELINES for health and social care surveys
TEAMWORK: How a lack of teamwork at the Royal Cornwall Hospital contributed to the death of a child with autism
DELAYED TRANSFERS OF CARE: Problems of definition, measurement and governance
For the record: An assessment of policy-making by NHS Kernow, Cornwall’s clinical commissioning group
HOW TO LOOK AFTER YOURSELF IN HOSPITAL (second edition)

POSTS

COMMENT: Lost hospitals would have been perfect for reablement 5 November 2021
EXPLAINER: Why ambulances are queueing outside Treliske 10 September 2021
ANALYSIS: Does Cornwall really have enough hospital beds? 9 September 2021
CORNWALL’S NEW INTEGRATED CARE SYSTEM: WHAT WE ARE HOPING FOR 25 June 2021
REINVENTING THE COMMUNITY HOSPITAL 19 January 2021
Backroom visionaries or frontline practitioners: who should shape Cornwall’s integrated health and care system? 20 July 2020
A systems view of health and social care: structures, processes and teams 12 July 2020
A new health and care system – but where are the voices of care homes and patients? 2 July 2020
Has the Embrace Care project been made use of for political purposes? Cornwall’s frail older folk deserve better. 19 June 2020
Does Cornwall really need two NHS hospital trusts? 15 March 2020
How to get better value for money from Cornwall’s NHS hospitals 9 February 2020
An appeal to Simon Stevens: Please intervene in Cornwall’s inadequate planning for integrated health and social care services 22 July 2019
Inpatient beds that Edward Hain hospital provided are still needed 8 July 2019
Implementing the NHS Long Term Plan at local level: a new approach in Cornwall 19 June 2019
Don’t close community hospitals: use them as re-ablement centres 24 January 2019
We don’t want a prima donna to head the hospitals trust 6 January 2019
The Royal Cornwall Hospitals NHS Trust is headhunting. Applicants should ask questions about its culture. 1 January 2019
‘How patients’ stories improve health services’ 19 December 2018
“Coco’s death also about the professionals’ lack of respect” 8 November 2018
Health and Social Care: Cornwall doesn’t need an ‘Integrated Care Provider’ 4 October 2018
Royal Cornwall Hospitals NHS Trust update: With a new (interim) Chief Executive, could a change in culture be on the way? 11 August 2018
Royal Cornwall Hospitals NHS Trust: Is one person able to do the Chief Executive’s job? 31 July 2018
Learning from patient feedback: a case-study in NHS culture and practice 20 May 2018
‘Hierarchical trust can’t claim credit’ (letter published in The Cornishman, 19 April 2018) 20 April 2018
Credit where credit is due! So well done to everyone who helped turn round the situation in A&E at the Royal Cornwall Hospital, Treliske (Truro). Now the right lessons must be learned. 15 April 2018
Six bungles and no funeral: The short life, unmourned death and high cost of Cornwall’s Sustainability and Transformation Plan for the NHS (SHORT REPORT) 10 April 2018
Six bungles and no funeral: The short life, unmourned death and high cost of Cornwall’s Sustainability and Transformation Plan for the NHS (FULL REPORT) 10 April 2018
Cornwall is to have Urgent Treatment Centres – so will Minor Injury Units disappear? 1 March 2018
An Accountable Care System for Cornwall: Is ‘Shaping our Future’ now an exercise in empire-building? 22 January 2018
Minor Injury Units: “Absolutely no decisions have been made …” Which means what, exactly? 15 January 2018
NHS in Cornwall poised to close Minor Injury Units 3 January 2018
Five kinds of nonsense are keeping a community hospital closed 4 October 2017
Cornwall’s STP: Why we need to see what’s going on 12 September 2017
Community hospitals under threat: Are decisions being taken on scrappy information and limited understanding? 7 August 2017
Communications and engagement in health and social care: A cautionary tale from Cornwall 12 July 2017
The STP engagement survey: What have we learned? 13 April 2017
Cornwall councillors’ verdict on STP engagement process: ‘ill-conceived’ and ‘unprofessional’ 5 April 2017
The STP survey: Why am I finding it so difficult to have my say? 17 January 2017
NHS Kernow’s NHS 111 and out-of-hours questionnaire: not fit for purpose 17 January 2017
An assessment of the STP: Health and Social Care at risk in Cornwall 10 January 2017
How not to run a Health and Social Care Survey, as demonstrated by Cornwall Council and NHS Kernow 2 May 2016
Involving the Public in NHS Commissioning: A Culture Clash in Cornwall 1 May 2016

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