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Last month Patient Safety Learning published an independent report written by risk expert Tim Edwards. The report highlights serious and widespread safety concerns around the misdiagnosis of pulmonary embolism. In this blog, Patient Safety Learning’s Chief Executive Helen Hughes discusses how the charity is now working with Tim to raise awareness of his findings and to help improve pulmonary embolism outcomes.

On 8 February the NHS published the plan for tackling the backlog of “elective” care built up during the COVID-19 pandemic. The term elective seems to me to be a bit misleading, as though this is care you might elect, or choose, to have. Something which might be in some way optional. What we are in fact talking about is care that is essential, but not urgent or an emergency. What impact does the use of this term have?

To mark Carers Week 2024, Alv, who is an unpaid carer for his husband, one of National Voices’ Lived Experience Partners, has written about his lived experience and why carers are so important to our society.

Diabetes UK is seeing the impact that the cost of living crisis is having on people who are living with or who are at risk of diabetes. As well as being forced to cut back on essentials in ways which risk their health now, there’s a serious risk that people will be storing up health problems for years to come – and the NHS needs to be prepared for this.

Last week Charlotte, Sarah, Keymn, and I travelled up to sunny Liverpool to attend NHS ConfedExpo 2022, one of the biggest and most significant healthcare conferences in the UK. We were joined by around 4,000 health and care leaders and their teams, with the aim of coming together to share learning and drive change in health and social care.

In the NHS, summers do not last long, and with each passing year, the planning for next winter gets earlier and earlier. Given the pressures we all experienced last year, NHS England have already written out to systems across the country to set out the plans in emergency and elective care.

A new King’s Fund report, ‘Actions to support partnership: Addressing barriers to working with the voluntary, community, and social enterprise (VCSE) sector in integrated care systems’, aims to support leaders in statutory and VCSE organisations by identifying and testing approaches to facilitate more equal partnership working.