How Coventry and Warwickshire ICS boosts support and local jobs for underrepresented groups
NHS Employers - To support the attraction, recruitment and retention of local people, Coventry and Warwickshire Integrated Care System (ICS) Talent for Care teams have been offering employability support through Step into the NHS, The Prince ’s Trust, work experience, and application and interview support. To further support these initiatives, the ICS has recently established its Health and Social Care Academy.Case study (Source: The Kings Fund - Health Management Specialist Collection)
Source: The Kings Fund - Health Management Specialist Collection - March 25, 2024 Category: Health Management Authors: The King ' s Fund Library Tags: Workforce and employment Source Type: news
Six ways to create a culture for integration: benchmarking tool
NHS Employers - In partnership with Skills for Care, NHS Employers has developed a benchmarking tool to help health and care systems audit their organisations when working towards building an integrated culture. Building an integrated workforce gives opportunities for health and care employees and the population they support. The tool encourages organisations to think about their approach across the six ways to create a culture for integration, developed to help systems understand how they can create an environment where integrated working can thrive.Benchmarking toolMore detail (Source: The Kings Fund - Health Manag...
Source: The Kings Fund - Health Management Specialist Collection - March 25, 2024 Category: Health Management Authors: The King ' s Fund Library Tags: Integrated care, collaboration and partnership Source Type: news
Spotify launches online courses from BBC Maestro, Skillshare, and others, covering music, business, and more, as an experiment in the UK on mobile and desktop
Spotify’s UK users are getting access to a fourth category of content to sit alongside its existing library of songs, podcasts and audiobooks: online courses. The company is today launching a new experiment that’ll see video-based lessons from BBC Maestro, Skillshare, Thinkific, and PlayVirtuoso…#spotify #bbcmaestro #skillshare #thinkific #playvirtuoso #mohitjitani #jitani #apple #google #android (Source: Reuters: Health)
Source: Reuters: Health - March 25, 2024 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Nursing locally, thinking globally: UK-registered nurses and their intentions to leave
The Health Foundation - This long read looks at the number of overseas-trained nurses registered in the UK, and how many are considering leaving to work elsewhere.Long read (Source: The Kings Fund - Health Management Specialist Collection)
Source: The Kings Fund - Health Management Specialist Collection - March 25, 2024 Category: Health Management Authors: The King ' s Fund Library Tags: Workforce and employment Source Type: news
Epidemiology and patterns of gymnastics-related head & neck trauma injuries: a NEISS database study - Abdou H, Wilkins SG, Sheth AH, Salehi PP, Lee YH.
OBJECTIVE: To describe the epidemiology and patterns of gymnastics-related Head& Neck trauma injuries using the NEISS database from 2001 to 2020. STUDY DESIGN AND SETTING: Cross-sectional analysis of a national database. METHODS: Gymnastics-relate... (Source: SafetyLit)
Source: SafetyLit - March 25, 2024 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Tags: Ergonomics, Human Factors, Anthropometrics, Physiology Source Type: news
What Are the Potential Problems with Baby Bottles?
Discussion
The basic rules for preparing formula and using baby bottles and cups are the same for any food preparation and presentation.
Wash hands with clean water.
Wash with hot soapy water, rinse and dry all bottles, cups, nipples, rings or other equipment (including breast pumping equipment). Some people recommend boiling these utensils for 5 minutes as well. For glass bottles, a dishwasher with heated water and hot drying cycle can be used. Remember to include any measuring cups, measuring spoons, can opener, etc. which can also touch the formula.
Wash, rinse and dry the top of the formula (or other food) container....
Source: PediatricEducation.org - March 25, 2024 Category: Pediatrics Authors: Pediatric Education Tags: Uncategorized Source Type: news
Mayo Clinic Minute: Wash your pet's food and water bowls to prevent salmonella
Salmonella is a bacterial infection that can cause fever, abdominal pain, nausea, vomiting or diarrhea. It can be transmitted from contaminated food, such as raw meat or eggs. But what you may not know is that your pets — and the food they eat — could carry salmonella, which can make you and your family sick. In this Mayo Clinic Minute, Dr. Tina Ardon, a family medicine physician, explains how to prevent salmonella infection from… (Source: News from Mayo Clinic)
Source: News from Mayo Clinic - March 25, 2024 Category: Databases & Libraries Source Type: news
China blocks use of Intel and AMD chips in government computers
Microsoft’s Windows and foreign database programs also sidelined as Beijing favours Chinese hardware and software#beijing (Source: Reuters: Health)
Source: Reuters: Health - March 24, 2024 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Wilms tumor: Kidney cancer in children
While kidney cancer is rare in children, Wilms tumor is the most common type found in kids, with between 500 and 600 children diagnosed annually in the U.S. The disease most often affects kids ages 3 to 4. Thanks to advances in treatments over the past several decades, survival rates from this rare cancer have improved significantly. Developing a treatment plan customized for each child with Wilms tumor has also helped to improve the prognosis for children… (Source: News from Mayo Clinic)
Source: News from Mayo Clinic - March 24, 2024 Category: Databases & Libraries Source Type: news
Free Blockbuster libraries offer an alternative to streaming
Streaming services have transformed the way we view film and television. But a small group of film buffs hopes to lure people back into the real world. (Source: Reuters: Health)
Source: Reuters: Health - March 23, 2024 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Impact of natural disasters on student enrollment in higher education programs: a systematic review - Wang J.
This study aims to evaluate how natural disasters affect student enrollment in higher education programs, considering both immediate and long-term consequences. The PRISMA guidelines were adhered to in conducting this review. Multiple databases, such as We... (Source: SafetyLit)
Source: SafetyLit - March 23, 2024 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Tags: Age: Adolescents Source Type: news
NHS England ’s modelling for the Long Term Workforce Plan
National Audit Office -The National Audit Office has assessed NHS England ’s modelling for theLong Term Workforce Plan, which sets out projected staffing needs over the next 15 years. It finds that the first version of the modelling pipeline as a whole has weaknesses, including the lack of integration between different parts of the pipeline and the manual adjustments to balance supply and demand gaps in the triangulation models.ReportNational Audit Office - press release (Source: The Kings Fund - Health Management Specialist Collection)
Source: The Kings Fund - Health Management Specialist Collection - March 22, 2024 Category: Health Management Authors: The King ' s Fund Library Tags: Workforce and employment Source Type: news
Environmental sustainability of post-orthodontic dental retainers: a comparative life-cycle assessment of Hawley and Essix retainers
Conclusions:
On the basis of the evidence gathered in this study, Hawley
retainers are more environmentally sustainable than Essix retainers.
These results would better enable clinicians to factor in the
environmental impact and make informed decisions on the choice of
retainer type. (Source: Dental Technology Blog)
Source: Dental Technology Blog - March 22, 2024 Category: Dentistry Source Type: news
CPTPP Bill, report stage – briefing note
Nuffield Trust -The Comprehensive and Progressive Agreement for Trans-Pacific Partnership (CPTPP) Bill, which was brought for debate among MPs this week, allows the UK to fully sign up to a major trade deal with 11 Pacific nations, and has implications for the NHS and social care and public health more generally. This briefing shared with MPs in advance of the debate provides an analysis of the Bill and suggests key questions where commitments or provisions may be unclear.BriefingNuffield Trust - publications (Source: The Kings Fund - Health Management Specialist Collection)
Source: The Kings Fund - Health Management Specialist Collection - March 22, 2024 Category: Health Management Authors: The King ' s Fund Library Tags: Integrated care, collaboration and partnership Source Type: news
Progress on the government's 2019 manifesto commitments on health and social care
The King's Fund -In 2019, the Conservatives made a series of health and care-related commitments in their election manifesto. They went on to win the election and form the government. Five years on, and with the current parliament coming to an end, we look at whether those commitments have been met.The King's Fund - publications (Source: The Kings Fund - Health Management Specialist Collection)
Source: The Kings Fund - Health Management Specialist Collection - March 22, 2024 Category: Health Management Authors: The King ' s Fund Library Tags: General election Source Type: news
