The Department of Health published a heatwave plan, warning that climate change made it imperative to protect children, vulnerable and elderly people and to make sure the health and care system could cope. The Institute for Fiscal Studies launched a study into inequality with a report warning that “deaths of despair” have now overtaken heart disease as a cause of early mortality in middle age. Coordinate My Care gave a public launch to its myCMC patient-started urgent care plan. And there were warnings that the global digital exemplar programme could be in trouble with the departure of its sponsor Matthew Swindells from NHS England.
Healthcare Roundup 17 May 2019
