A DOCTOR at Basildon Hospital has received an award for teaching thousands of people during the pandemic. Consultant radiologist Dr Sami Khan has taught more than 32,000 trainees from 45 countries since March 2020. The award was created by the Royal College of Radiologists to honour the amount of hours Dr Khan put into teaching students and focusing on their welfare during the pandemic. Dr Khan took his teaching online and gave access to all trainees preparing for their final exams, holding 35 intensive teaching sessions, all in his own time. His inspiring sessions reached trainees across five different continents, and his hard work and commitment has received lots of positive feedback.
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The handling of media requests by the health service – rigid at the best of times – has been tightened substantially over the last year.
NHS England imposed a command and control structure at the start of the pandemic which meant requests and answers to questions all had to run past them, with a central team in London determining much of what could be said.
HSJ has frequently heard private frustrations around this, and concerns that local organisations were struggling to get timely messages out to the public. But naturally, there is a reluctance to put those sorts of sentiments on the record.
Measures would bring an end to total triage system used during pandemic
GPs can use phone and online consultations where patients benefit from them
But physical appointments must also be available, letter from NHS bosses said
Practice reception desks must now be open to patients in a Covid-safe manner
So those who do not have access to phones or internet are not disadvantaged
More than 90million fewer face-to-face GP appointments were carried out last year, MailOnline can reveal amid fury over a controversial NHS order for GPs to screen all patients online first.
NHS Digital statistics show 147.85million in-person consultations happened between April 2020 and this March down from the 238.26million during the same 12-month spell the year before.
Critics slammed the NHS decision to divert patients away from face-to-face appointments as not acceptable .
Plans to discourage face-to-face appointments in favour of patients having virtual consultations first today prompted anger after they were leaked.
Family doctors have been ordered to adopt a total triage system, which will mean all patients must discuss their illness with their GP over the phone or online before they are booked in face-to-face.