The Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust is the largest teaching hospital Trust in the country providing a range of general, acute and elective services together with a significant number of regional and supra-regional specialties from two acute hospital sites: St James Teaching Hospital and Leeds General Infirmary which is also the Regional Trauma centre for Yorkshire.
The latest issue of AT Today magazine, produced by BHTA Engage, was published recently and, as always, contains a wide variety of news items from the world of Assistive Technology.
The Trading Standards Institute (TSI) launched a new blog this week, raising awareness of their work and how members of Approved Codes - like BHTA's - help protect consumers.
The following letter has been sent for publication to the editors of The Daily Mail, The Guardian, The Daily Mirror, The Daily Express, The Daily Telegraph, The Metro, The Scotsman and The Daily Record in response to their coverage of a 10-level ramp fitted by a council in West Dunbartonshire:
Hundreds of people in the UK are having their lives transformed by ‘stand-up wheelchairs’. They allow people with paralysis, or muscular degeneration, to stand again and perform many functions that were not previously possible.
We had a positive Board meeting today, the first chaired by Alastair Maxwell (Crest Medical) and, sadly, the last to be attended by Joe Cavanagh (JFC Consulting) who has decided to stand down after many years of service to the Association - our thanks to him for all his efforts.
I am pleased to note that we have a full house for our social media workshop tomorrow, an example of some of the practical activity we are undertaking to help support you.
Our Operations Manager, Nad, has been flying the flag for BHTA today at a study visit hosted by member company Blatchfords, the audience being international regulators interested in how medical devices are regulated here in the UK and how we self-regulate via the Code of Practice.
If anyone is having trouble with the link in the email circulated yesterday about the survey the Crown Commercial Service is conducting on expereince of late payment by the public sector, Sarah advises trying this one instead:
http://survey.clicktools.com/app/survey/go.jsp?iv=5kvtlxl5toqt
Most people think that the government should consider using more private companies in the NHS “when they can provide high quality services more cheaply.”