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NHS SETS OUT PACKAGE OF MEASURES TO BOOST CAPACITY AHEAD OF WINTER beds , ‘ virtual ward ’ spaces and initiatives to improve patient flow over the coming months .
The NHS will also recruit more call handlers across the UK so there is at least 4,800 staff working in 111 and 2,500 in 999 callrooms to deal with higher demand . Additional capacity in the 999 system will help staff meet record demand , with a live 999 call answer dashboard and a target to answer calls in an average of 10 seconds .
The NHS has set out steps to rapidly boost capacity and resilience , including through increasing bed availability and staff numbers , ahead of the busy winter period . Health chiefs will outline plans to prepare local services for additional pressure , by creating the equivalent of 7,000 more beds through a mixture of new hospital
Having a national health service means that hospitals can continue to use mutual aid throughout the winter including through NHS 111 services , which will work to improve response times by automatically diverting calls between trusts to improve call waits for patients .
SECTRA LAUNCHES CLOUD PORTAL TO ENHANCE CLINICAL LEARNING IN MEDICAL EDUCATION
Sectra has launched its cloud-based teaching platform Sectra Education Portal . It will greatly enhance students ' learning outside the classroom with significant improvements in usability and functionality . Aligned with Sectra ' s overall commitment to deliver cloud-first software , it will facilitate for the hundreds of medical schools using the platform to bridge the gap between education and their students ' professional careers .
A growing need for care along with a rapid increase in medical knowledge is creating challenges when it comes to training healthcare personnel effectively – managing these challenges requires new ways of working and new tools in medical education . The digital tools and actual patient cases in Sectra Education Portal help create a bridge between training and healthcare . When students can realistically interact with patient cases , it creates deeper understanding of and insight into anatomy as well as the body ' s functions and processes . This improves the learning process and helps students develop their analytical and problem-solving skills .
" We want to give students the power to get as close to their future reality as they possibly can and at the same time help teachers to manage education efficiently in a landscape where we envisage an explosive increase in medical knowledge ," said Johan Carlegrim , President of Medical Education , Sectra . " Teachers and students will now be able to access Sectra ' s unique visualisation tools and clinical learning material through a completely new cloud-based web portal to further support that goal ."
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