Casebook

Casebook is a monthtly service for members of the Rural Health and Care Alliance. It summarises 5 current news stories, along with other relevant content.
20 Sep 2023
September Edition of Casebook from the Rural Health and Care Alliance
September 2023 Edition This month Covid, Alzheimers, 999 calls from within a hospital and a worrying escalation of levels of ill health in young people. Plus the Centre is close...
Read more17 Jul 2023
July Edition of Casebook from the Rural Health and Care Alliance
July 2023 Edition In Casebook this time: dentistry, physician associates, the antidote to dementia outbreaks and poor payment activities challenging rural providers of health. In the National Centre update a...
Read more20 Jun 2023
June Edition of Casebook from the Rural Health and Care Alliance
June 2023 Edition In Casebook this month: the cost-of-living crisis, the covid inquiry in action and a hope it has a spatial dimension, staff shortages, dumped PPE and young and...
Read more16 May 2023
May Edition of Casebook from the Rural Health and Care Alliance
May 2023 Edition In this edition of casebook: school nurses, a very insightful report on covid failings from our friends at Nuffield, more flexibility to access pharmacies directly, the challenge...
Read more18 Apr 2023
April Edition of Casebook from the Rural Health and Care Alliance
April 2023 Edition In Casebook this time: mental health support (or the lack of it!) in rural areas, the threat and ongoing challenge of the pandemic, from a number of...
Read more14 Mar 2023
March Edition of Casebook from the Rural Health and Care Alliance
March 2023 Edition In Casebook this time, reflections on key challenges facing GPs in primary care, some budget decisions and their likely impact on rural health and care and two...
Read more14 Feb 2023
February Edition of Casebook from the Rural Health and Care Alliance
February 2023 Edition In Casebook this time, better news on ambulance waits, malnutrition in the UK??? Vaccine stats and two workforce stories revealing the challenges we currently face. Some useful...
Read more24 Jan 2023
January Edition of Casebook from the Rural Health and Care Alliance
January 2023 Edition In Casebook this time a real focus on workforce issues and the impact on the quality and availability of rural health and care. We also look at...
Read more19 Dec 2022
December Edition of Casebook from the Rural Health and Care Alliance
December 2022 Edition This time round some thoughts on the impact of industrial action on rural dwellers, covid in another couple of twists and turns, a miracle dog, workforce dynamics...
Read more16 Nov 2022
November Edition of Casebook from the Rural Health and Care Alliance
November 2022 Edition In Casebook this time: delayed discharge, the problem of getting into care homes, spiralling agency costs, A&E challenges and a great story about ground source heating! Read...
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