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Report found during pandemic, disparities in levels of care between different NHS Trusts as approaches to enforcing Covid-19 restrictions varied. Inadequate staffing levels were significant challenge& pandemic had negative impact on mental health of pregnant women& partners. (Source: Current Awareness Service for Health (CASH))
Source: Current Awareness Service for Health (CASH) - April 21, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Urgent and emergency care improvement guide specialty support to the urgent and emergency care pathway/internal professional standards
This guide has been designed for providers and systems to consider embedding as good practice to reduce ambulance handover delays. The contents have been drawn from the Winter Improvement Collaborative, which was set up to identify solutions to the problems facing the system over the winter period. Members of the collaborative were asked to co-design a series of plans and potential improvement measures, to be adapted and trialled at local level. (Source: Current Awareness Service for Health (CASH))
Source: Current Awareness Service for Health (CASH) - April 21, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
NHS delivery and continuous improvement review: recommendations
This report contains the findings and recommendations of the delivery and continuous improvement review conducted by Anne Eden. It looked at how improvement-led delivery can enhance the quality of outcomes for our patients, communities and our health and care workforce. It recommends establishing a national improvement board to agree a small number of shared national priorities on which NHS England, with providers and systems, will focus improvement-led delivery work. It also recommends launching a single, shared ' NHS improvement approach ' and co-designing and establishing a Leadership for Improvement programme. (Source:...
Source: Current Awareness Service for Health (CASH) - April 21, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Understanding and supporting mental health in infancy and early childhood: a toolkit to support local action in the UK
This resource aims to support service leaders, commissioners and policy teams to develop a whole-system approach to support the mental health of babies and young children, and to enable them to develop the capacities to be mentally healthy throughout their lives. Evidence shows that the mental health needs of babies and young children – which present differently than in older children and young people – are not well understood and often overlooked. This toolkit acknowledges that it can be harder for professionals to work together to promote and protect mental health at this life stage, as understanding varies across se...
Source: Current Awareness Service for Health (CASH) - April 21, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Tackling obesity: improving policy making on food and health
This report finds that every government since 1992 has missed targets to reduce obesity – with the UK ' s rising obesity rates harming people ' s health and life opportunities, burdening the NHS and damaging the economy. It tries to identify the reasons behind these policy failures and sets out how to make progress. It finds that tackling obesity has suffered from ministers fearing the perception of nanny statism, despite there being public support for ambitious measures. It details how, over three decades, there have been at least 14 strategies, hundreds of policies and a succession of institutional reforms, with key ag...
Source: Current Awareness Service for Health (CASH) - April 21, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Do the Department's Next Steps for social care take us forwards or backwards?
Is the government backtracking on its commitments to solving the social care crisis? Sally Warren (Director of Policy at The King ' s Fund) analyses how the latest announcement on social care reform plays out in reality. (Source: Current Awareness Service for Health (CASH))
Source: Current Awareness Service for Health (CASH) - April 21, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Standing back from The Hewitt Review: six key take-aways
The much-anticipated Hewitt Review into the oversight, governance and accountability of integrated care systems (ICSs) landed last week, to surprisingly little fanfare and a somewhat muted reception. To anyone that has followed the path of the review since its launch in November 2022, it will come as no surprise that it is both comprehensive in its breadth and that it draws on extensive engagement with the sector and key partners, for which the review team and its leadership should be given due credit. Reflecting this, the final document weighs in at a hefty 89 pages. So, standing back from the detail, what are the key tak...
Source: Current Awareness Service for Health (CASH) - April 21, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
National Core Studies Immunity Programme publishes impact report, UK Covid Vaccine Research Hub
The aim of the programme was to deepen our understanding of immunity against COVID-19, including how to predict individual risk and protect against serious infection, how to use vaccines most effectively, and how to prepare for future pandemics.
The National Core Studies (NCS) Immunity Programme has set out its impact in a new report published today.
The report sets out the impact of the programme, covering five key areas:
Key scientific achievements
Delivering rapid benefit to the population
Forging lasting collaborations
Patient and public involvement and engagement
Paving the way for future discoveries (So...
Source: Current Awareness Service for Health (CASH) - April 20, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
National Core Studies Immunity takes stock of lessons learned from involving patients and the public in COVID-19 research, UK Covid Vaccine Research Hub
National Core Studies (NCS) Immunity – one of the six National Core Studies set up in summer 2020 by the Government Office for Science – has been a key part of the UK ' s pandemic response. Led by Professor Paul Moss at the University of Birmingham, the programme led to over twenty separate studies involving more than 125 researchers at over 15 universities and other research centres.
The British Society for Immunology (BSI) delivered the patient and public involvement (PPI) element of the programme, working closely with a panel of public contributors and the programme ' s management team to facilitate discussions, fe...
Source: Current Awareness Service for Health (CASH) - April 20, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Cost of living latest insights, ONS (updated 19th April 2023)
The latest data and trends about the cost of living. Explore changes in the cost of everyday items and how this is affecting people. (Source: Current Awareness Service for Health (CASH))
Source: Current Awareness Service for Health (CASH) - April 20, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
How the media fuels negative views about older people and ageing
Newspaper headlines everyday reinforce ageist stereotypes that ultimately impact how older people are treated by society. (Source: Current Awareness Service for Health (CASH))
Source: Current Awareness Service for Health (CASH) - April 20, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Living (and dying) as an older person in prison
Tough conditions in prison disproportionately affect older prisoners, and they tend to be in poorer health than the general population. This new Nuffield Trust research funded by The Health Foundation uses hospital data to look at the health care needs of those older people in prison. It finds significant health care needs associated with frailty, which has implications for the prison service in managing increasing numbers of older people as the population continues to age. (Source: Current Awareness Service for Health (CASH))
Source: Current Awareness Service for Health (CASH) - April 20, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
We look at the effectiveness of NHS Stop Smoking Services, smoking by deprivation and smoking patterns among young people.
Smoking is a leading cause of preventable illness and premature death in England. Not only does it have a detrimental effect on nearly every organ of the body, but also contributes to health inequality and worsening social mobility. Reducing the number of people who smoke is therefore a key priority in improving the health of the population, and Stop Smoking Services are a key NHS intervention to reduce smoking. (Source: Current Awareness Service for Health (CASH))
Source: Current Awareness Service for Health (CASH) - April 20, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Online approaches boosted public involvement in assistive technologies during the pandemic
Through necessity, COVID-19 changed the way members of the public were involved in research. 2 External 0 0 0 A paper by Lise Sproson and colleagues false https://doi.org/10.1080/03091902.2022.2089258 false false%> showcases studies which successfully involved patients and the public online. In these examples, online working overcame long-standing barriers to public involvement. The researchers intend to continue using some of the approaches they trialled during the pandemic.
Good patient and public involvement (PPI) in research means research done with or by members of the public (rather than to, about or for them). T...
Source: Current Awareness Service for Health (CASH) - April 20, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Measles outbreak resources, UKHSA (updated 20th April 2023)
Posters and leaflets for use by health professionals and community engagement groups to raise awareness of measles.
20 April 2023Updated content and added links to translations.
18 June 2019Updated ' Measles outbreak poster ' in Czech. (Source: Current Awareness Service for Health (CASH))
Source: Current Awareness Service for Health (CASH) - April 20, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
