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Active Travel in England
Active travel describes everyday journeys made by walking, wheeling, or cycling. It includes trips that are made by foot, pedal-cycles, e-cycles, adapted cycles, wheelchairs, mobility scooters and push-scooters. Active travel is a low-carbon way to get around and offers many benefits compared with other forms of transport. Government believes active travel has potential to support its wider strategic priorities to increase physical activity, tackle obesity, improve air quality, level up, and achieve net zero carbon emissions by 2050. (Source: Current Awareness Service for Health (CASH))
Source: Current Awareness Service for Health (CASH) - June 8, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news

Deaths registered weekly in England and Wales, provisional: week ending 26 May 2023, ONS (updated 6th June 2023)
Provisional number of deaths registered in England and Wales, including deaths involving coronavirus (COVID-19), in the latest weeks. (Source: Current Awareness Service for Health (CASH))
Source: Current Awareness Service for Health (CASH) - June 8, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news

Leading for all: supporting trans and non-binary healthcare staff
Supporting leaders to understand the needs of trans and non-binary colleagues so they can perform their duties and provide high-quality allyship. (Source: Current Awareness Service for Health (CASH))
Source: Current Awareness Service for Health (CASH) - June 8, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news

Infection prevention and control in adult social care: COVID-19 supplement, DHSC and UKHSA (updated 8th June 2023)
Sets out how to reduce the spread of COVID-19 in adult social care settings in England. 8 June 2023Clarified information on admission of care home residents in ' COVID-19 supplement to the infection prevention and control resource for adult social care ' . 25 April 2023Removed digital reader information from ' COVID-19 supplement to the infection prevention and control resource for adult social care ' . (Source: Current Awareness Service for Health (CASH))
Source: Current Awareness Service for Health (CASH) - June 8, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news

EMA and ECDC statement on updating COVID-19 vaccines to target new SARS-CoV-2 virus variants
In line with the outcome of recent meetings of international regulators and the WHO, EMA ' s Emergency Task Force recommends updating vaccines to target XBB strains, which have become dominant. They also note monovalent vaccines against emerging strains are a reasonable choice. (Source: Current Awareness Service for Health (CASH))
Source: Current Awareness Service for Health (CASH) - June 8, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news

The imprinting effect of covid-19 vaccines: an expected selection bias in observational studies
Articles notes recent observational studies found a higher risk of reinfection in people who received a third covid booster dose which has been interpreted as evidence of immune imprinting of covid-19 vaccines. Authors describe how the observed effect may be due to selection bias (Source: Current Awareness Service for Health (CASH))
Source: Current Awareness Service for Health (CASH) - June 8, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news

Leading for population health: clinicians' perspectives
Population health is a national, regional and local priority across UK health and care. It is one of the top four priorities for integrated care systems (ICSs) in England. It follows that population health is an area of interest for many people working in primary care, acute trusts, local government, voluntary and community organisations, and others who want to explore their role and that of their teams or organisations in improving the health of their local populations. (Source: Current Awareness Service for Health (CASH))
Source: Current Awareness Service for Health (CASH) - June 7, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news

Hospice at home can enable people to have a good death in the place of their choosing
Hospice at home provides end-of-life care for people who would like to die at home. A review in England found that these services support a good death (as reported by the bereaved carer) and enable most people to die in their preferred location (usually at home). To explore the breadth and quality of services in England, researchers carried out a survey of 70 services. They found variation in services ' size, staffing arrangements, and provision of care. They analysed 12 services in depth and interviewed 76 bereaved family members or carers, and 85 service providers and commissioners. The study found that most people had ...
Source: Current Awareness Service for Health (CASH) - June 7, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news

Understanding the drivers of healthy life expectancy: report
This report assesses the relative impact of mortality rates and self-reported health on healthy life expectancy (HLE) and details the key factors that are most influential in driving these two components. HLE has been identified as a key outcome measure in assessing the extent to which health is improving and disparities are narrowing. There is a need to better understand what drives HLE to help inform policy. (Source: Current Awareness Service for Health (CASH))
Source: Current Awareness Service for Health (CASH) - June 6, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news

Social care matters to us all
Covid-19 brought home some stark truisms about just how little central, and to a worrying extent, local government, understood about the social care that they were statutorily responsible for. There appeared a level of carelessness about a cohort of people who either received care and support or worked within the sector that meant as the darkest days of Covid-19 drew closer, the opportunities to make care count were missed (Source: Current Awareness Service for Health (CASH))
Source: Current Awareness Service for Health (CASH) - June 6, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news

Intraoperative electron beam radiotherapy for locally advanced and locally recurrent colorectal cancer
Evidence-based recommendations on intraoperative electron beam radiotherapy for locally advanced and locally recurrent colorectal cancer. This involves delivering electron beam radiation directly to the tumour during surgery. The aim is to stop the cancer from coming back and spreading further. (Source: Current Awareness Service for Health (CASH))
Source: Current Awareness Service for Health (CASH) - June 6, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news

Gonorrhoea and syphilis at record levels in 2022
Last year, gonorrhoea diagnoses were highest on record and syphilis diagnoses were highest since 1948. (Source: Current Awareness Service for Health (CASH))
Source: Current Awareness Service for Health (CASH) - June 6, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news

Final four weeks to get spring booster with more than half protected, NHS England
NHS is encouraging eligible patients (aged>75 years; aged>5 years and immunocompromised; older care home residents) to obtain the spring booster before the campaign ends on Friday 30th June. This is also the last chance for those yet to have their first/second Covid vaccine. (Source: Current Awareness Service for Health (CASH))
Source: Current Awareness Service for Health (CASH) - June 6, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news

Austerity left UK hugely unprepared " for the Covid pandemic
The report is published as the TUC today holds a joint press conference with the Covid-19 Bereaved Families for Justice about the lessons that must be learned through the inquiry, to save lives in the future. (Source: Current Awareness Service for Health (CASH))
Source: Current Awareness Service for Health (CASH) - June 5, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news

Impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on domiciliary care workers in Wales, UK: a data linkage cohort study using the SAIL Databank
During 2018 –20,>950 000 people in the UK received domiciliary care from nearly 823 000 domiciliary care workers (DCWs) from over 10 100 home care providers and the demand is predicted to increase significantly over the next 20 years. DCWs provide support to adults in their own home with household tasks, personal care or any activities that allow the individual to maintain independence. Support can demand close contact, assisting with bodily functions, managing continence, assisting with oral and dental care and providing other personal care. In the UK, domiciliary care can be funded publicly by local councils, privately...
Source: Current Awareness Service for Health (CASH) - June 5, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news