Weekly Australian Health IT Links – 25 July, 2022.
Here are a few I have come across the last week or so. Note: Each link is followed by a title and a 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.General Comment-----Quite a lot going on this week and we have had a pretty busy comment flow on the blog. Interesting how comment streams evolve!The telehealth debate continues and the Government is yet to notice what a ‘steaming pile of poo’the #myHR is!-----https://www.healthcareitnews.com/news/anz/australia-launches-digital-cancer-hub-childre...
Source: Australian Health Information Technology - July 25, 2022 Category: Information Technology Authors: Dr David G More MB PhD Source Type: blogs
Workforce: recruitment, training and retention in health and social care
This report finds the NHS and social care face the greatest workforce crisis in their history, compounded by the absence of a credible government strategy to tackle the situation. The report outlines the scale of the workforce crisis: research suggests the NHS in England is short of 12,000 hospital doctors and more than 50,000 nurses and midwives; evidence on workforce projections say an extra 475,000 jobs will be needed in health and an extra 490,000 jobs in social care by the early part of the next decade; and hospital waiting lists reached a record high of nearly 6.5 million in April 2022. The Committee finds the govern...
Source: Health Management Specialist Library - July 25, 2022 Category: UK Health Authors: The King ' s Fund Library Tags: Social care Workforce and employment Source Type: blogs
Inequality on the inside: using hospital data to understand the key health care issues for women in prison
Nuffield Trust - As the government proceeds with plans to build 500 more prison places for women, this analysis uses Hospital Episode Statistics (HES) data to look at women prisoners' use of hospital services, finding that they face a series of challenges and risks in prison because of barriers to accessing health and care services. For example, women prisoners are almost twice as likely to give birth prematurely than women in the general population, and more than a fifth of midwifery appointments are being missed by pregnant prisoners, with a key reason for missed appointments being a lack of available escort st...
Source: Health Management Specialist Library - July 25, 2022 Category: UK Health Authors: The King ' s Fund Library Tags: Public health and health inequalities Source Type: blogs
Is It Time For The Australasian Institute Of Digital Health To Really Be More Than A Conference Organiser?
The objective would be to eventually have an organisation that had an academic as well as a managerial board and which maybe developed a journal to highlight Australian research and progress in digital health. To my eye these activities are rather under done and could be ramped up to develop a more balanced organisation into the future.I am sure some will think all is OK as it is, or that the AIDH is irrelevant anyway or that I am just an elderly out-of-touch curmudgeon but I do feel improvement and more balance is possible, and Australian Digital Health would be better for it. Does anyone have any views?David. (Sour...
Source: Australian Health Information Technology - July 24, 2022 Category: Information Technology Authors: Dr David G More MB PhD Source Type: blogs
What's new in midwifery - 20th July 2022
Some things you may want to know about:First, consider submitting an abstract to theInternational Maternal Newborn Health Conference in Cape Town, May 2023. TheGuardian ' s report of plans to offer COVID boosters to the over 50s has a quote from the UKHSA that mentions pregnant women. This made me look forGovernment information on the autumn booster programme, which does say that pregnant women are eligible. The UKHSA quote encourages them to take up the offer.Then, athematic report from the National Child Mortality Database looking at the contribution of newborn health to child mortali...
Source: Browsing - July 20, 2022 Category: Databases & Libraries Tags: midwifery Source Type: blogs
What's new in midwifery - research - 8th July 2022
Librarian intervention (or a subscription) may be needed for some of these.Perinatal depressionThe effectiveness of telemedicine interventions on women with postpartum depression: A systematic review and meta-analysisEffectiveness of Internet-based psychological interventions for treating perinatal depression: A systematic review and meta-analysisSmoking cessationEconomic analysis of financial incentives for smoking cessation during pregnancy and postpartumPreterm birthDoes vaginal progesterone prevent recurrent preterm birth in women with a singleton gestation and a history of spontaneous preterm birth? Evidence from a sy...
Source: Browsing - July 8, 2022 Category: Databases & Libraries Tags: midwifery Source Type: blogs
What's new in midwifery - news and guidelines - 8th July 2022
Only two news items and one updated NICE guideline, so they are all in this single post!Guardian report ofan outbreak ofBacillus cereus at the NICU in the Evelina, St Thomas ' Hospital, London, in 2013/2014.Guardian report of a cross party review of whether MPs should be allowed to bring babies into the House of Commons. And an update ofNICE guideline NG25, Preterm labour and birth. (Source: Browsing)
Source: Browsing - July 8, 2022 Category: Databases & Libraries Tags: midwifery Source Type: blogs
Finding health studies about the UK
I am often asked by undergraduate nursing and midwifery students, how to find UK studies. I had got as far as thinking it was tricky, but is there anything that would help them? An email to discussion lists told me about a filter NICE have developed and validated, which is in the excellentISSG Search Filter Resource, which (rather to my embarrassment) I had not thought to check. Look under " Geographic " .I was working recently with a student who needed to find other UK studies of heart valve disease, alongside a study they knew of. Our searches, before we tried the NICE filter, were not ...
Source: Browsing - June 23, 2022 Category: Databases & Libraries Tags: literature searching Source Type: blogs
What's new in midwifery - audit and reports - 17th June 2022
Some items you may want to know about. Thanks to the libraries at Rotherham General and Kettering General Hospitals for these.re:birth, new maternity lexicon from the RCM. This is the press release - there is a link to the re:birth hub and to the report itself at the bottom of the page.National Maternal and Perinatal Audit: Clinical report 2022Fatherhood Institute (a " think and do tank " and not a membership organisation, see their About us), Bringing Baby Home: UK fathers in the first year after the birth (Source: Browsing)
Source: Browsing - June 17, 2022 Category: Databases & Libraries Tags: midwifery Source Type: blogs
What's new in midwifery - research and news - 17th June 2022
Two pieces of research that might be useful:Effect of acupoint hot compress on postpartum urinary retention after vaginal delivery, an RCT Systematic review and critical evaluation of quality of clinical practice guidelines on the management of SARS-CoV-2 infection in pregnancy (librarian intervention may be needed for full text)And one news item:Guardian report of a Doctors of the World report into migrant women being charged for maternity services in England (Source: Browsing)
Source: Browsing - June 17, 2022 Category: Databases & Libraries Tags: midwifery Source Type: blogs
Re:Birth summary report
Royal College of Midwives -This project worked with representatives from across maternity care, including staff, advocacy groups and service users. It advises that midwives and obstetricians put the needs and wishes of women at the heart of all conversations about their care. It recommends that maternity staff should follow the five As: acknowledge, ask, affirm, avoid and annotate.Summary reportRoyal College of Midwives - press release (Source: Health Management Specialist Library)
Source: Health Management Specialist Library - June 15, 2022 Category: UK Health Authors: The King ' s Fund Library Tags: Patient involvement, experience and feedback Patient safety Quality of care and clinical outcomes Source Type: blogs
What's new in midwifery - research and guidelines - 8th June 2022
A randomised trial inBurkina Faso of prenatal fortified energy-protein supplementation and birth outcomes.Asystematic review of gestational diabetes and adverse pregnancy outcomes.TheACOG clinical practice guideline on headaches in pregnancy and postpartum (note 1 - ACOG is the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists; note 2 - librarian intervention needed to get the full text).And ameta analysis on timing of cardiac surgery during pregnancy (librarian intervention needed for full text). (Source: Browsing)
Source: Browsing - June 8, 2022 Category: Databases & Libraries Tags: midwifery Source Type: blogs
What's new in midwifery - news - 8th June 2022
The Guardian ' s Rhiannon Lucy Coslett has been writing about her experiences of childbirth and motherhood, andsome readers have been responding with their experiences.The Guardian ' s*Science Podcast considers why pregnant women are so often excluded from drug research.* guess which news source I read! (Source: Browsing)
Source: Browsing - June 8, 2022 Category: Databases & Libraries Tags: midwifery Source Type: blogs
Nursing under unsustainable pressures: staffing for safe and effective care in the UK
Royal College of Nursing - In March 2022, the RCN invited nursing and midwifery staff from across the UK to give their experiences of the last time they were at work. There were 20,325 responses to the survey. Eight in ten (83 per cent) said there weren ’t enough nursing staff to meet all patient needs safely and effectively on their last shift. Just a quarter (25 per cent) of shifts had the planned number of registered nurses. Less than one in five (18 per cent) said they had enough time to provide the level of care they’d like.ReportPress release (Source: Health Management Specialist Library)
Source: Health Management Specialist Library - June 6, 2022 Category: UK Health Authors: The King ' s Fund Library Tags: Patient safety Workforce and employment Source Type: blogs
What's new in midwifery - in the news - 25th May 2022
Guardian report of lower levels of the enzyme butyrylcholinesterase (BChE) in heelprick test blood from babies who died of sudden infant death syndrome (SIDS). The research itself is published open access (so no subscription or payment required) in eBiomedicine. Guardian article on a report into exclusion of pregnant women from clinical trials, and related issues. The report is calledHealthy mum, healthy baby, healthy future: the case for UK leadership in the development of safe medicines for use in pregnancy. (Source: Browsing)
Source: Browsing - May 25, 2022 Category: Databases & Libraries Tags: midwifery Source Type: blogs
