Our future focus
With unprecedented challenges facing NHS and social care services, we ' ve launched a new plan setting how we work to make sure your experiences help make care better. (Source: Current Awareness Service for Health (CASH))
Source: Current Awareness Service for Health (CASH) - June 5, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news

Nursing and midwifery national job profile review: evidence report
This report is the output from the evidence-gathering stage of the review project. (Source: Current Awareness Service for Health (CASH))
Source: Current Awareness Service for Health (CASH) - June 5, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news

The distribution of public service spending
This commentary for the IFS Deaton Review of Inequalities sets out what is known about the distribution of spending on major public services, and how and why this changed over time. It also explains the key conceptual and methodological issues involved in such analysis and identifies key lessons for policy and avenues for future research. (Source: Current Awareness Service for Health (CASH))
Source: Current Awareness Service for Health (CASH) - June 5, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news

Taking stock: the experience of medicines optimisation in ICSs
Findings and recommendations from an ICS Network stocktake to better understand how medicines optimisation is developing in a system environment. (Source: Current Awareness Service for Health (CASH))
Source: Current Awareness Service for Health (CASH) - June 2, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news

Deprivation inequalities in the experiences of GCSE students during coronavirus (COVID-19), England: September 2021 to March 2022
The experiences of GCSE students during the coronavirus pandemic in England, by income-related deprivation. Data from the COVID Social Mobility and Opportunities (COSMO) study. (Source: Current Awareness Service for Health (CASH))
Source: Current Awareness Service for Health (CASH) - June 2, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news

Deaths registered weekly in England and Wales, provisional: week ending 19 May 2023, ONS (updated 31st May 2023)
Provisional number of deaths registered in England and Wales, including deaths involving coronavirus (COVID-19), in the latest weeks. (Source: Current Awareness Service for Health (CASH))
Source: Current Awareness Service for Health (CASH) - June 2, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news

Monkeypox outbreak: epidemiological overview, UKHSA (updated 1st June 2023)
Overview of the current mpox (monkeypox) outbreak in the UK. 1 June 2023Uploaded report for 1 June 2023. 25 May 2023Uploaded report for 25 May 2023 (interim update). (Source: Current Awareness Service for Health (CASH))
Source: Current Awareness Service for Health (CASH) - June 2, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news

Understanding the drivers of healthy life expectancy, OHID (published 1st June 2023)
Report summarises several pieces of statistical analysis and findings from a rapid literature review. It includes estimates of risk factors contributing to years of life lost taken from the Global Burden of Disease and a summary of the public health implications of the findings (Source: Current Awareness Service for Health (CASH))
Source: Current Awareness Service for Health (CASH) - June 2, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news

Growing problems, one year on: the state of children's health care and the Covid-19 backlog
Article covers progress following Quality Watch ' s 2022 annual statement on Covid-19 in children and young people noting that hospital waiting lists for planned paediatric care continue to grow, and that policy efforts to improve emergency care offer limited benefit for children (Source: Current Awareness Service for Health (CASH))
Source: Current Awareness Service for Health (CASH) - June 2, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news

Recovery and symptom trajectories up to two years after SARS-CoV-2 infection: population based, longitudinal cohort study
Swiss cohort study (1106 non-vaccinated patients with COVID, 628 without infection) found up to 18% of patients who were not vaccinated before infection had post-COVID condition up to two years after infection, with evidence of excess symptom risk compared with controls. (Source: Current Awareness Service for Health (CASH))
Source: Current Awareness Service for Health (CASH) - June 2, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news

How can mental healthcare services meet the needs of people from ethnically diverse groups?
Expert commentary provided on study which explored why more people from ethnic minority groups come into services vs crisis pathways vs white British group. Researchers explored how ethnic inequalities in mental health are created& sustained& how they can be overcome. (Source: Current Awareness Service for Health (CASH))
Source: Current Awareness Service for Health (CASH) - June 2, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news

Weather-Health Alerting System, UKHSA (published 1st June 2023)
The alerting system provides an early warning when adverse temperatures are likely to impact on the health and wellbeing of the population. (Source: Current Awareness Service for Health (CASH))
Source: Current Awareness Service for Health (CASH) - June 1, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news

No more free vapes for kids
Government takes steps to crack down on rogue firms targeting children with free samples. 31 May 2023Detail on the Prime Minister ' s visit to Kent Scientific Services on Tuesday 30 May has been added. 30 May 2023First published. (Source: Current Awareness Service for Health (CASH))
Source: Current Awareness Service for Health (CASH) - June 1, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news

Free personal protective equipment (PPE) scheme, DHSC (updated 30th May 2023)
The provision of free PPE for all health, social care and public sector workers for coronavirus (COVID-19) infection control, between 1 April 2021 and 31 March 2024. 30 May 2023Updated ' Estimated stock-out dates by PPE category ' with current estimates. 22 May 2023Updated ' Estimated stock-out dates by PPE category ' with current estimates. (Source: Current Awareness Service for Health (CASH))
Source: Current Awareness Service for Health (CASH) - June 1, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news

Community pharmacy quality scheme 2020-22: findings and recommendations from the antimicrobial stewardship initiatives
Report notes the Pharmacy Quality Scheme has effectively promoted antimicrobial stewardship (AMS) activities in community pharmacy. NHSE conclude that the findings demonstrated the TARGET Antibiotic Checklist can support community pharmacy teams to play a crucial role in AMS. (Source: Current Awareness Service for Health (CASH))
Source: Current Awareness Service for Health (CASH) - June 1, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news