The health ministers of the G7 industrialised nations signed agreements to improve pandemic planning, tackle antimicrobial resistance, and address the health impacts of climate change. But in England, trusts and ambulances continue to come under huge pressure, and a stocktake to reboot primary care received a luke-warm response.
Four hospitals in Greater Manchester declared a critical incident after being hit by an ongoing IT outage. And the Health Service Journal calculated that integrated care systems have a long way to go if they are going to converge acute electronic patient record systems – or even get all trusts to HIMSS 5.
