A week of political drama saw prime minister Liz Truss sack a chancellor and a home secretary and then resign herself. Amid the turmoil, fears grew over the scale of the cuts that could be inflicted on the NHS and other public services to try and balance the government’s books and calm the markets spooked by her ‘fiscal event’.
NHS England issued its guidance for the coming winter, with a focus on ‘data driven war rooms’ or command centres in every area, backed up by hospital diversion projects, such as respiratory hubs and falls teams. The Care Health Information Exchange rolled out to care homes in Hampshire and the Isle of Wight, with the support of Orion Health.
