Artificial intelligence (AI) in health
Royal College of Physicians - This Royal College of Physician's position statement on artificial intelligence (AI) in health urges industry to address real-world challenges, doctors to appraise the technology and regulators to develop guidance and evaluation methods.Position statementPress release (Source: Health Management Specialist Library)
Source: Health Management Specialist Library - September 4, 2018 Category: UK Health Authors: The King ' s Fund Information & Knowledge Service Tags: New technologies Source Type: blogs
Hiding in plain sight: treating tobacco dependency in the NHS
This report argues that existing models of delivering stop smoking services separately from mainstream NHS services, while successful in the past, may now not be the best approach. We argue that responsibility for treating smokers lies with the clinician who sees them, and that our NHS should be delivering default, opt-out, systematic interventions for all smokers at the point of service contact.ReportPress release (Source: Health Management Specialist Library)
Source: Health Management Specialist Library - June 26, 2018 Category: UK Health Authors: The King ' s Fund Information & Knowledge Service Tags: Local authorities, public health and health inequalities Quality of care and clinical outcomes Source Type: blogs
Double or quits: calculating how many more medical students we need
Royal College of Physicians - This policy brief outlines new calculations for the number of doctors needed, and sets out key issues facing workforce planning in the UK that affect the current supply, future service demand and predicted losses in the workforce.Briefing paperPress release (Source: Health Management Specialist Library)
Source: Health Management Specialist Library - June 25, 2018 Category: UK Health Authors: The King ' s Fund Information & Knowledge Service Tags: Workforce and employment Source Type: blogs
Less waste, more health: a health professional's guide to reducing waste
This report report explains how health professionals can positively influence societal health and wellbeing by making simple changes to the procurement and disposal of medical supplies. It features a range of case studies and 12 recommendations setting out how everyone from individual to trust level can: positively influence the health of patients; aid financial savings; and shape the impact of the NHS on the environment.ReportMore detail (Source: Health Management Specialist Library)
Source: Health Management Specialist Library - April 18, 2018 Category: UK Health Authors: The King ' s Fund Information & Knowledge Service Source Type: blogs
Splitting hairs with hypertension
By SAURABH JHA, MD
Intrigued by many things in my first few days in the U.S., what perplexed me the most was that there seemed to be a DaVita Dialysis wherever I went; in malls, in the mainstreet of West Philadelphia, near high rises and near lower rises. I felt that I was being ominously followed by nephrologists. How on earth could providers of renal replacement therapy have a similar spatial distribution as McDonalds?
After reading Friedrich Hayek’s essay, Use of Knowledge in Society, I realized why. In stead of building a multiplex for dialysis, which has shops selling pulmonary edema-inducing fried chicken, D...
Source: The Health Care Blog - April 4, 2018 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: at RogueRad Tags: OP-ED Patients Value-Based Care Source Type: blogs
NHS reality check: update 2018
This report outlines the findings of a survey of over 1,500 NHS doctors which explored their experience of delivering care in the UK health service. It finds that doctors reported that conditions had got worse and NHS staff, who have benefited from some of the best medical education in the world, were not able to provide the standard of care they have been trained to deliver. ReportPress release (Source: Health Management Specialist Library)
Source: Health Management Specialist Library - March 12, 2018 Category: UK Health Authors: The King ' s Fund Information & Knowledge Service Tags: Quality of care and clinical outcomes Source Type: blogs
Focus on physicians: census of consultant physicians and higher specialty trainees 2016-17
This report outlines the findings of a wellbeing survey and it finds that only one in four substantive consultant physicians in the UK feel valued by the hospital in which they work. Respondents also reported a desire for more time for teaching, research and patient care in their workload.ReportRelated documentsPress release (Source: Health Management Specialist Library)
Source: Health Management Specialist Library - July 24, 2017 Category: UK Health Authors: The King ' s Fund Information & Knowledge Service Tags: Workforce and employment Source Type: blogs
Lessons From the 100 Nation Ransomware Attack
By ROSS KOPPEL and HAROLD THIMBLEBY
The world is reeling from the massive ransomware attack on at least a hundred nations’ computer systems. The unprecedented malware spasm infected hundreds of thousands of computers, and would have infected millions more but for a 22-year old computer science student who found a vulnerability in the malware that he used to curtail the infection. He found it looked for a non-existent URL, so he a set up that URL and found he could stop it spreading. Of course, now the hackers know that, it is an easy matter to update the malware to use other URLs and other techniques. Clearly, this iconi...
Source: The Health Care Blog - May 14, 2017 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: John Irvine Tags: Uncategorized Source Type: blogs
Against the odds: experiences from the NHS front line
This report brings together the experiences of doctors working in NHS hospitals between December 2016 and January 2017. In the report, they explain in their own words what an overstretched NHS looks like in practice.ReportPress release (Source: Health Management Specialist Library)
Source: Health Management Specialist Library - February 27, 2017 Category: UK Health Authors: The King ' s Fund Information & Knowledge Service Tags: NHS measurement and performance Patient safety Quality of care and clinical outcomes Workforce and employment Source Type: blogs
National Lung Cancer Audit annual report 2016 (for the audit period 2015)
This report shows a seven per cent increase in the number of people diagnosed with lung cancer surviving for longer than one year, compared with results from 2010. It also reveals that 60 per cent of lung cancer patients received anti-cancer treatment such as chemotherapy, radiotherapy or surgery, meeting the target set out in the 2015 annual audit report.ReportRoyal College of Physicians - news (Source: Health Management Specialist Library)
Source: Health Management Specialist Library - January 24, 2017 Category: UK Health Authors: The King ' s Fund Information & Knowledge Service Tags: Local authorities, public health and health inequalities Source Type: blogs
Being a junior doctor: experiences from the front line of the NHS
This report explores the challenges that face the NHS from the perspective of junior doctors, and it is drawn directly from their experiences. It discusses workforce pressures, the working environment, staff wellbeing and access to consultants.ReportRoyal College of Physicians - publications (Source: Health Management Specialist Library)
Source: Health Management Specialist Library - November 30, 2016 Category: UK Health Authors: The King ' s Fund Information & Knowledge Service Tags: Workforce and employment Source Type: blogs
Mind the gap! The third SSNAP annual report: care received between April 2015 to March 2016
Royal College of Physicians (RCP) - This is the third annual Sentinel Stroke National Audit Programme (SSNAP) report and it reveals that despite continuing improvements in stroke care there is still more work to do to ensure that all patients have access to high quality care regardless of where they live or when they are admitted to hospital. The audit measures processes of care as well as the structure of stroke services and it aims to provide timely information on how well stroke care is being delivered. ReportOrganisational audit dataPress release (Source: Health Management Specialist Library)
Source: Health Management Specialist Library - November 28, 2016 Category: UK Health Authors: The King ' s Fund Information & Knowledge Service Source Type: blogs
Underfunded, underdoctored, overstretched: the NHS in 2016
This report argues that the NHS in 2016 needs a new plan, designed to meet the UK ’s health and care needs in the long term, and to value, support and motivate NHS staff. This would include an increase in the amount of funding and an increase in the number of medical students and doctors training to be hospital specialists.ReportRoyal College of Physicians - press release (Source: Health Management Specialist Library)
Source: Health Management Specialist Library - September 20, 2016 Category: UK Health Authors: The King ' s Fund Information & Knowledge Service Tags: NHS finances and productivity Workforce and employment Source Type: blogs
Preventing maternal mortality: it's okay to ask
Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists (RCOG) - This animation was produced in conjunction with the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Glasgow and it aims to help doctors assess unwell pregnant or post-partum women. The video is accompanied by a poster which highlights the main causes of maternal death and provides doctors and midwives with advice for assessing pregnant and post-partum women who are feeling unwell.
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Source: Health Management Specialist Library - June 23, 2016 Category: UK Health Authors: The King's Fund Information & Knowledge Service Tags: Patient safety Quality of care and clinical outcomes Source Type: blogs
Fracture Liaison Service Database (FLS-DB) facilities audit: FLS breakpoint: opportunities for improving patient care following a fragility fracture
This report provides the first detailed mapping of current service provision for secondary fracture prevention within the NHS in England and Wales. It recommends that service providers and commissioners (or local health boards) should use the data in this report to review local performance and inform quality improvement.
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Source: Health Management Specialist Library - May 9, 2016 Category: UK Health Authors: The King's Fund Information & Knowledge Service Tags: Quality of care and clinical outcomes Source Type: blogs
