2024/25 priorities and operational planning guidance
NHS England - The overall priority in 2024/25 remains the recovery of core services and productivity following the Covid-19 pandemic.GuidanceMore detail (Source: The Kings Fund - Health Management Specialist Collection)
Source: The Kings Fund - Health Management Specialist Collection - April 2, 2024 Category: Health Management Authors: The King ' s Fund Library Tags: NHS performance and productivity Source Type: news
NHS recovery plan: one year on
Royal College of Emergency Medicine - In January 2023, the Department for Health and NHS England published a delivery plan to recover emergency care services following the most challenging winter the NHS has ever faced. The premise of the plan was to improve waiting times and patient experience by increasing capacity, growing the workforce, improving discharge, expanding care outside hospitals, and making it easier to access the right care. One year on, this briefing has been prepared to help policymakers review progress made in recovering emergency care services.BriefingPress release (Source: The Kings Fund - Health...
Source: The Kings Fund - Health Management Specialist Collection - April 2, 2024 Category: Health Management Authors: The King ' s Fund Library Tags: NHS performance and productivity Source Type: news
Drug, Device Makers Paid Docs $12 Billion in a Decade Drug, Device Makers Paid Docs $12 Billion in a Decade
Industry payments appeared to have been little changed by public reporting in the Open Payments database.Medscape Medical News (Source: Medscape Med Students Headlines)
Source: Medscape Med Students Headlines - April 2, 2024 Category: Universities & Medical Training Tags: Family Medicine/Primary Care Source Type: news
Long waits and excess deaths
Royal College of Emergency Medicine - The idea of emergency care services experiencing seasonal spikes in demand – so called ‘Winter Pressures’ are fast becoming a thing of the past. Instead, long waits have become the new norm year-round, and staff are caring for patients in unsafe conditions on a daily basis. It is well established that long waits are associated with patient harm and excess deaths. Las t year the UK government publishedDelivery plan for the recovery of urgent and emergency care (UEC) services. A year on, far too many patients are still coming to avoidable harm.BriefingPress release (So...
Source: The Kings Fund - Health Management Specialist Collection - April 2, 2024 Category: Health Management Authors: The King ' s Fund Library Tags: Digital health and data NHS performance and productivity Patient safety Source Type: news
Does teleradiology increase malpractice liability for radiologists?
Medical malpractice cases involving teleradiology tend to be more severe and result in higher indemnity payments than other radiology malpractice claims, according to research published April 2 in Radiology.
In a retrospective review of medical malpractice claims over a 12-year period, researchers from Harvard Medical School led by Adam Schaffer, MD, found that teleradiology claims were more likely to involve patient death, as well as indemnity payments (and higher amounts). The teleradiology cases also more frequently involved interprovider communication problems.
“These attributes of teleradiology claims underscore ...
Source: AuntMinnie.com Headlines - April 2, 2024 Category: Radiology Authors: Erik L. Ridley Tags: Enterprise Imaging Malpractice Source Type: news
Rapides Library Offers Telehealth to a Town Without Doctors
Profiles a library in rural Louisiana offering telehealth services in an area with Primary, Dental, and Mental Healthcare Shortages. Discusses rural economic vitality including healthcare access. (Source: News stories via the Rural Assistance Center)
Source: News stories via the Rural Assistance Center - April 2, 2024 Category: Rural Health Source Type: news
CAR-T cell therapy helps man continue community advocacy
Sylvester Pinckney Sylvester Pinckney is someone who knows a lot about teamwork. He was a star football player in high school and college; he and his wife, Sabrina, have raised a family together; and for more than 20 years, he has worked to promote the well-being of children throughout his community. When Sylvester was diagnosed with follicular lymphoma in 2016, he knew he would have a team supporting him. "When you have the opportunity to… (Source: News from Mayo Clinic)
Source: News from Mayo Clinic - April 2, 2024 Category: Databases & Libraries Source Type: news
Malicious xz backdoor reveals fragility of open source
Analysis The discovery last week of a backdoor in a widely used open source compression library called xz could have been a security disaster had it not been caught by luck and atypical curiosity about latency from a Microsoft engineer. Yet the fortunate find has led industry observers to conclude…#filippovalsorda #michałzalewski #snap #andresfreund #liblzma #xz #linux #fedoralinux #fedorarawhide #debianunstable (Source: Reuters: Health)
Source: Reuters: Health - April 1, 2024 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Orthopaedic injuries from all-terrain vehicles: an epidemiological account and review of legislation - Sandler A, Dunn J, Adler A, Fares A, Scanaliato J.
All-terrain vehicles (ATVs) are an ongoing source of orthopaedic trauma in the United States. The National Electronic Injury Surveillance System (NEISS) database was queried for ATV-related extremity trauma from 2010 to 2019. An estimated 31,979 ATV-relate... (Source: SafetyLit)
Source: SafetyLit - April 1, 2024 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Tags: Economics of Injury and Safety, PTSD, Injury Outcomes Source Type: news
Readmissions after traumatic brain injury in the nationwide readmissions database - Pilkington C, Thind T, Bowman SM, Sexton K, Kimbrough MK, Porter A, Davis B, Bennett J, Bhavaraju A, Jensen HK.
INTRODUCTION: Readmissions after a traumatic brain injury (TBI) can have severe impacts on long-term health outcomes as well as rehabilitation. The aim of this descriptive study was to analyze the Nationwide Readmissions Database to determine possible risk... (Source: SafetyLit)
Source: SafetyLit - April 1, 2024 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Tags: Economics of Injury and Safety, PTSD, Injury Outcomes Source Type: news
What Is That In Her Mouth?
Discussion
Exostoses are dense cortical nodular osseous structures that are benign but which can cause problems due to size or location. The tissue grows outward from the bone. Long bone locations are common.
Bone spurs are a common exostosis that is specifically an osteophyte as it occurs along a joint margin. Enthesophytes are benign bony projections from the tendon or ligament insertion. Some exostoses have specific names such as Surfer’s ear (occurring in the ear canal) or Haglund’s deformity (or pump bump) that occurs on the back of the heel. People with hereditary multiple exostoses have multiple exostos...
Source: PediatricEducation.org - April 1, 2024 Category: Pediatrics Authors: Pediatric Education Tags: Uncategorized Source Type: news
Mayo Clinic scientists pioneer immunotherapy technique for autoimmune diseases
Mesenchymal stromal cell ROCHESTER, Minn. — Mayo Clinic scientists have developed an immunotherapy strategy that potentially lays the groundwork for treating a spectrum of autoimmune diseases. The new technique, detailed in a preclinical study published in Nature Biomedical Engineering, involves combining chimeric antigen receptors (CAR) with mesenchymal stromal cells (MSC), resulting in engineered stem cells known as CAR-MSCs. “The pioneering approach shows potential in targeting inflammatory disease sites more precisely and improving immunosuppression and healing… (Source: News from Mayo Clinic)
Source: News from Mayo Clinic - April 1, 2024 Category: Databases & Libraries Source Type: news
Mayo Clinic Minute: 3 ways to prevent head and neck cancer
Editor's note: April is National Head and Neck Cancer Awareness Month Throat cancer is one of the fastest-growing cancers, and it is often linked to HPV. Oropharyngeal cancer, or throat cancer, is a type of head and neck cancer that can be divided into two subgroups: HPV-associated cancers and non-HPV-associated cancers. And depending on the type of subgroup, they are treated differently. Dr. Katharine Price, a medical oncologist with the Mayo Clinic Comprehensive Cancer Center, says there are three ways to reduce… (Source: News from Mayo Clinic)
Source: News from Mayo Clinic - April 1, 2024 Category: Databases & Libraries Source Type: news
$677,000,000,000 Added To US National Debt in Three Months As BlackRock CEO Warns Situation ‘More Urgent Than I Can Ever Remember’
The US government just added more than half a trillion dollars to its balance sheet in three months. Data from the Treasury Department’s Debt to the Penny database shows the national debt rose from $33.896 trillion on December 27th to $34.573 trillion on March 27th – an increase of $677 billion.…#penny #blackrock #larryfink #inamerica #treasury #ustreasury #warnssituation (Source: Reuters: Health)
Source: Reuters: Health - March 31, 2024 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
