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What is a 'National' 'Health' 'Service'? A keyword analysis of policy documents leading to the formation of the UK NHS
Health Econ Policy Law. 2024 Mar 18:1-14. doi: 10.1017/S1744133124000057. Online ahead of print.ABSTRACTThis paper explores the keywords of 'National', 'Health' and Service' in the road to the NHS in 1948. It uses a form of Qualitative Content Analysis to analyse key documents in the period leading to the 'Appointed Day' when the NHS was created in 1948. In terms of 'national', most documents favoured Local Authorities, with 'National' coming rather late in the day. For 'health', most of the documents 'talk' of a broad or 'positive' health, but they lack any specific details, and seem to focus on a narrower curative medica...
Source: Health Economics, Policy, and Law - March 18, 2024 Category: Health Management Authors: Martin Powell Iestyn Williams Source Type: research

Review of the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence guidelines on chronic heart failure
This article reviews the most recent iteration of NICE chronic heart failure guidelines and compares them with major guidelines on an international scale. Variations in recommendations will be explored including implications for NICE guideline updates in the future. (Source: Heart)
Source: Heart - March 12, 2024 Category: Cardiology Authors: Doherty, D. J., Docherty, K. F., Gardner, R. S. Tags: Review articles Reviews Source Type: research

Co-design and evaluation of a youth-informed organisational tool to enhance trauma-informed practices in the UK public sector: a study protocol
This study contributes to public sector capacity to work in trauma-informed ways with adolescents by codesigning and evaluating the implementation of a youth-informed organisational resource. Methods and analysis This is an Accelerated Experience-based Co-design (AEBCD) Study followed by pre–post evaluation. Public sector organisations or services, and adolescents connected with them, will collaboratively reflect on lived experience data assembled through creative arts practice, alongside data from epidemiological national data sets. These will present knowledge about the impact of adverse childhood experiences on a...
Source: BMJ Open - March 12, 2024 Category: General Medicine Authors: Hugh-Jones, S., Butcher, I., Bhui, K. Tags: Open access, Mental health Source Type: research

"Quite simply they dont communicate": a case study of a National Health Service response to staff suicide
This study aimed to explore and understand the communication processes around staff suicide across a National Health Service (NHS) Trust and to provide recommendations based on these findings. Semi-structured interviews were conducted with 29 participants, each lasting approximately 90 min. The Consolidated Criteria for Reporting Qualitative Research (COREQ) guidelines were followed. Thematic analysis was used to analyse the data, resulting in seven themes being identified based on communication. Findings indicated that the Trust had no clear communication strategy in place for tackling staff suicide. Each suicide was hand...
Source: Medical Humanities - February 22, 2024 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Authors: Luce, A., Turner, G., Kennedy, L., Bush-Evans, R. D. Tags: Open access Original research Source Type: research

Use of anticoagulants to improve pregnancy outcomes in couples positive for M2 haplotype: A systematic review
Placenta mediated pregnancy complications (PMPC) include implantation failure, recurrent or late pregnancy loss, pre-eclampsia, placental abruption, fetal growth restriction and premature birth. PMPC represent a significant cause of physical, psychological and emotional morbidity, fetal loss, and maternal and neonatal mortality [1,11,23,35,36,54]. Pregnancy loss alone costs the National Health Service in the United Kingdom more than £400 million per year, highlighting the additional economic burden on health systems from PMPC [38]. (Source: European Journal of Obstetrics, Gynecology, and Reproductive Biology)
Source: European Journal of Obstetrics, Gynecology, and Reproductive Biology - February 21, 2024 Category: OBGYN Authors: Hajra Khattak, Syed Aleem Husain, Deborah Baker, Ian Greer Tags: Review article Source Type: research

Quarter-million genomes analyzed in NIH project could be ‘hugely important’ for identifying disease risks
A giant research database with genetic and health data of people across the United States has hit its stride. Today, the All of Us study published an analysis of genomes and linked health information from nearly 250,000 participants whose diversity may be greater than that in any comparable biobank widely available for research. The National Institutes of Health (NIH)-funded effort, which plans to quadruple that genome number ultimately, has already found hundreds of millions of never-reported genetic variants that have the potential to reveal new links between genes, health, and disease. “This is a hugely im...
Source: Science of Aging Knowledge Environment - February 19, 2024 Category: Geriatrics Source Type: research

Anticipatory declarations for vaccination of the newborn
Earlier this year, a National Health Service Trust applied for anticipatory declarations relating to an unborn child.1 C was 37 weeks pregnant, HIV positive for over 20 years and had refused antiretroviral treatment during this pregnancy. The obstetricians were concerned that the newborn could be HIV positive. C was due to have elective caesarean section the following day. The application intended to secure the court’s authority to administer antiretroviral treatment to the newborn baby within 4 hours of birth and for 28 days thereafter. Justice Hayden was told that C had only once received antiretroviral therapy; in...
Source: Archives of Disease in Childhood - February 19, 2024 Category: Pediatrics Authors: Wheeler, R. Tags: Ethics and law for clinical practice Source Type: research

Mental health interventions in Italian prisons: are we ready for a new model? Suggestions from the Parma experience
Riv Psichiatr. 2024 Jan-Feb;59(1):35-42. doi: 10.1708/4205.41947.ABSTRACTMental health interventions for Italian prisoners with mental disorder remain a problematic issue, despite radical changes in psychiatric care and a 2008 major government reform transferring mental health care in prison to the National Health Service. Indeed, prison has increasingly become a place of severe psychological distress, where also serious mental illnesses sometimes occur. In this contribution, we commented on the recommendations recently proposed by the Emilia-Romagna Region on how structuring mental healthcare interventions in all regional...
Source: Rivista di Psichiatria - February 16, 2024 Category: Psychiatry Authors: Lorenzo Pelizza Simona Pupo Source Type: research