Andrew Fenton reflects on a re-energised NHS focus on health inequalities, a place-based approach, and the vital role of ICS partnerships.

Our CHIS data informatics team has produced a report to compare vaccination uptake and timely delivery before the COVID-19 pandemic and during.

During their work with primary care colleagues across the Thames Valley, SCW’s Improving Immunisation Uptake (IIU) Team have put together five 'Top Tips' for general practice to improve childhood vaccination uptake rates. 

Throughout the coronavirus pandemic, primary care services have faced unprecedented challenges in delivering both the COVID-19 vaccination rollout and the continued delivery of the national childhood immunisation programme.

NHS Providers has established a new panel of legal and consultancy companies who are experts in their field and specialists in the health sector. The panel will support NHS trust members to address their most pressing and important challenges.  SCW is delighted to have been one of the seven organisations selected to be part of the panel. 

Does the shift to digital healthcare risk widening the inequalities that have been highlighted during the coronavirus pandemic?  SCW’s MD Michael van Hemert was one of four panelists to assess the situation at a virtual roundtable event. 

The BJC has published an article investigating the results of research to consider the diagnostic performance of faecal immunochemical tests (FIT) for patients with low-risk symptoms of colorectal cancer (CRC) in primary care. 

Viewers flocked to watch the SCW and The King's Fund online panel discussion exploring patient and user engagement in the delivery of virtual care. We discussed how some of the new technologies were making a difference in people's lives and shared examples of how people were being helped to access the support they need in the community. 

Three million people have now missed cancer screenings due to COVID-19 since March 2020, according to Cancer Research UK.  And 6,400 patients referred to cancer services have waited more than three months for a response.