What's new in midwifery - 18th August 2022 - policy, news and statistics
Some news, policy, reports and statistics that might be useful.‘I felt I was being assessed on my skin colour’: Black women around the world share their birth stories, Guardian.Breastfeeding at 6 to 8 weeks after birth: quarterly data for 2021 to 2022, Office for Health Improvement and Disparities.Female Genital Mutilation (FGM) Annual Report - April 2021 to March 2022 (experimental statistics report), NHS Digital.Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC) - Ambitious for change: research into NMC processes and people ’s protected characteristics (press release, report downloadable from there).It wasWorld Breastfe...
Source: Browsing - August 18, 2022 Category: Databases & Libraries Tags: midwifery Source Type: blogs
Hackers, Breaches And The Value Of Health Data: 2022 E-Book Update
As solutions like remote care are becoming the norm, 3D printing disrupts the normal supply chain and the number of life science studies on tools like artificial intelligence (A.I.) skyrocket, it’s become clear that we are not anticipating the digital health era; we are in the digital health era. This was to come sooner or later, but the pandemic accelerated the process by years.
However, along with the enhanced healthcare landscape that digital health brings along, there is the pressing issue of privacy. To put it bluntly, there is no digital health without sacrificing a part of our privacy. The advanced techno...
Source: The Medical Futurist - August 11, 2022 Category: Information Technology Authors: Pranavsingh Dhunnoo Tags: Covid-19 Digital Health Research E-Patients Future of Medicine Future of Pharma Genomics Health Sensors & Trackers Healthcare Design Healthcare Policy Personalized Medicine Security & Privacy Telemedicine & Smartphones amazon dev Source Type: blogs
Weekly Overseas Health IT Links – 6th August 2022.
Here are a few I came across last week.Note: Each link is followed by a title and few paragraphs. For the full article click on the link above title of the article. Note also that full access to some links may require site registration or subscription payment-----https://mhealthintelligence.com/news/telehealth-bolsters-maternal-care-outcomes-patient-satisfactionTelehealth Bolsters Maternal Care Outcomes, Patient SatisfactionNew research shows that implementing telehealth, either in place of or as a supplement to in-person care, led to good clinical outcomes and high patient satisfaction in maternal care.ByMark MelchionnaJu...
Source: Australian Health Information Technology - August 6, 2022 Category: Information Technology Authors: Dr David G More MB PhD Source Type: blogs
Working in partnership with people and communities: statutory guidance
NHS England - This guidance is for integrated care boards, NHS trusts, foundation trusts and NHS England. It supports effectively partnership working with people and communities to improve services and meet the public involvement legal duties.Guidance (Source: Health Management Specialist Library)
Source: Health Management Specialist Library - July 11, 2022 Category: UK Health Authors: The King ' s Fund Library Tags: Integrated care, collaboration and partnership Source Type: blogs
Draft guidance on good governance and collaboration
NHS England - This guidance, issued under the NHS provider licence, sets clear expectations of collaboration by NHS trusts and foundation trusts and the governance characteristics that trusts must have in place to support this. It is open for consultation until 8 July 2022.Draft guidanceConsultation detail (Source: Health Management Specialist Library)
Source: Health Management Specialist Library - May 31, 2022 Category: UK Health Authors: The King ' s Fund Library Tags: Regulation, governance and accountability Source Type: blogs
Recruiting young people from care into NHS careers
NHS Employers - The Northern Care Alliance NHS Foundation Trust (NCA) looked after children pre-employment programme supports young people with a background in care and unaccompanied asylum seeker children, providing opportunities in NHS roles such as health care support, administration and ancillary. It was developed in partnership with NHS England and NHS Improvement, Next Step and The Prince ’s Trust.Case study (Source: Health Management Specialist Library)
Source: Health Management Specialist Library - May 23, 2022 Category: UK Health Authors: The King ' s Fund Library Tags: Workforce and employment Source Type: blogs
Workforce Disability Equality Standard: 2021 data analysis report for NHS trusts and foundation trusts
This report provides a summary of the 2021 national data analysis and presents key findings and recommendations for continued focus and actions by trusts. regions and the national Equality, Diversity and Inclusion team at NHS England and NHS Improvement. It enables a comparison of year on year progress into the career and workplace experiences of NHS disabled staff.ReportNHS England - publications (Source: Health Management Specialist Library)
Source: Health Management Specialist Library - May 11, 2022 Category: UK Health Authors: The King ' s Fund Library Tags: Equality and diversity Workforce and employment Source Type: blogs
Study: Automated VR psychotherapy can help reduce anxiety and distress, especially among those with psychosis and severe agoraphobia
Oxford University VR spinout demonstrates significant psychotherapy benefits in Lancet study (Fierce Healthcare):
Virtual reality can help treat symptoms in patients with psychosis, according to a new study published in The Lancet Psychiatry.
GameChangeVR automates psychotherapy, guiding users with a virtual coach. It was developed by OxfordVR, a digital therapeutics company, the University of Oxford and Oxford Health NHS Foundation Trust … The study, based on 346 patients, found that automated VR therapy led to “significant reductions” in symptoms of anxious avoidance and distress. The technology especially benefite...
Source: SharpBrains - May 5, 2022 Category: Neuroscience Authors: SharpBrains Tags: Brain/ Mental Health Technology & Innovation agoraphobia cognitive cognitive model gameChange psychosis Psychotherapy virtual coach virtual-reality Source Type: blogs
The Health Service and Social Care Workers (Scrutiny of Coronavirus-related Deaths) (Revocation) Directions 2022
Department of Health and Social Care -These directions revokeThe Health Service and Social Care Workers (Scrutiny of Coronavirus-related Deaths) Directions 2020 which ensured that NHS trusts and NHS foundation trusts sought and prioritised the services of medical examiners to scrutinise the deaths of health service and adult social care staff with coronavirus.DirectionsDepartment of Health and Social Care - publications (Source: Health Management Specialist Library)
Source: Health Management Specialist Library - May 3, 2022 Category: UK Health Authors: The King ' s Fund Library Tags: Covid-19 Regulation, governance and accountability Workforce and employment Source Type: blogs
Can A. I. Tutors Help Train Enough Medical Professionals?
By 2030, the global economy will have led to the creation of some 40 million new jobs in the health sector; mostly in middle- and high-income countries. Paradoxically, the WHO stresses that in parallel, the world will be short of up to 9.9 million physicians, nurses and midwives by that year. Moreover, the availability of healthcare workforce is unequally distributed, with some countries having 5 times more doctors than others; or, in some cases, 9 times as many nurses as others.
The imbalances and shortages are predicted to persist in the foreseeable future; with the WHO adding that even the increase in health workers ...
Source: The Medical Futurist - March 24, 2022 Category: Information Technology Authors: Pranavsingh Dhunnoo Tags: TMF Artificial Intelligence in Medicine Medical Education AI healthcare jobs future of education AI tutor Source Type: blogs
NHS system oversight framework segmentation
NHS England and NHS Improvement - These documents outline the segmentation decisions for all integrated care systems (ICSs) and NHS trusts (including foundation trusts). NHS England and NHS Improvement have allocated trusts and ICSs to one of four ‘segments. A segmentation decision indicates the scale and general nature of support needs, from no specific support needs (segment 1) to a requirement for mandated intensive support (segment 4).Documents (Source: Health Management Specialist Library)
Source: Health Management Specialist Library - November 15, 2021 Category: UK Health Authors: The King ' s Fund Library Tags: Integrated care, collaboration and partnership Source Type: blogs
Increasing recruitment and retention through reward
NHS Employers - This case study describes how Sherwood Forest Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust developed a comprehensive reward package to play a vital role in its recruitment and retention campaign.Case study (Source: Health Management Specialist Library)
Source: Health Management Specialist Library - October 19, 2021 Category: UK Health Authors: The King ' s Fund Library Tags: Workforce and employment Source Type: blogs
Welcome to the Ultimate Neuroscience Lab: Your Smartphone
Welcome to a new edition of SharpBrains’ e‑newsletter, featuring this time six scientific reports and industry resources plus a fun illusion.
#1. Top 10 Mental Health Innovations to Watch: Special SciAm/ WEF report
Hoping you enjoy the great series over at Scientific American and especially #7, titled Welcome to the Ultimate Neuroscience Lab: Your Smartphone, by Emory neuroethicist Karen Rommelfanger and our very own Álvaro Fernández Ibáñez.
#2. Five thoughts to think about when thinking about the speed of thought
The time it takes for all thoughts to occur is ultimately shaped by the characteristics of the neurons...
Source: SharpBrains - September 30, 2021 Category: Neuroscience Authors: SharpBrains Tags: Brain/ Mental Health Technology & Innovation adhd Aduhelm brain-teaser cognitive cognitive complaints dementia emotion regulation lifelong mental health lifelong-brain-health myelination Neurons neuroscience lab quick brain tea Source Type: blogs
Rebuilding our NHS: the case for capital funding
NHS Providers - This briefing highlighting what trust leaders need from the comprehensive spending review, based on a survey of trust and foundation trust finance directors across all sectors.BriefingPress release (Source: Health Management Specialist Library)
Source: Health Management Specialist Library - September 23, 2021 Category: UK Health Authors: The King ' s Fund Library Tags: NHS finance Source Type: blogs
Pastoral support and induction for international recruits
NHS Employers - This case study looks at what University Hospitals Sussex NHS Foundation Trust has done to effectively induct new overseas nurses over recent months.Case study (Source: Health Management Specialist Library)
Source: Health Management Specialist Library - August 18, 2021 Category: UK Health Authors: The King ' s Fund Library Tags: Workforce and employment Source Type: blogs
