Newbury and District CCG is among a group of four west Berkshire clinical commissioning groups that have launched a communications campaign aimed at encouraging patients to contact their GPs before going to A&E.
The ‘Talk Before you Walk’ campaign will try to ensure the four CCGs maintain the 4 hour A&E waiting target in the face of an anticipated rise in demand over the winter period.
7 November 2013
“Cultural transformation” rather than “zero tolerance” is required to overcome widespread sexual harassment by ambulance service staff and patients, according to the person leading national efforts to make improvements.
An ambulance trust is reducing the number of posts in its corporate directorates by 20 per cent.
Two ambulance trusts are planning to form a group next year.
Two very different integrated care boards are to share the same chair.
Buckinghamshire, Oxfordshire and Berkshire West Integrated Care Board has appointed its first substantive CEO in two years.
An integrated care board has apologised to a large county council for a lack of engagement over plans to axe its “place” directors and centralise their teams, but argued it was trying to improve its central functions.
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