Value of health initiative
The Royal College of Physicians has joined a group of leading health organisations from across Europe in an initiative to improve quality of care and public health. This project calls for a stronger focus on health outcomes, including a more robust approach to how they are measured, to bring about the following benefits: improve quality of care for patients; strengthen public health interventions; contribute to wider economic goals and increase societal well-being (Source: Current Awareness Service for Health (CASH))
Source: Current Awareness Service for Health (CASH) - July 19, 2016 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Prevention of maternal mortality
The Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Glasgow (RCPSG) and the Royal College of Gynaecology have produced an animated video to help doctors assess unwell pregnant or postpartum women. It's better to ask: working together to prevent maternal mortality aims to help reduce the number of maternal deaths in the UK. It is accompanied by a poster, which highlights the main causes of maternal death and provides midwives and doctors with advice for assessing pregnant and postpartum women who are feeling unwell. (Source: Current Awareness Service for Health (CASH))
Source: Current Awareness Service for Health (CASH) - June 30, 2016 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Preventing maternal mortality
An animation from the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists and the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Glasgow aims to help doctors assess unwell pregnant or post-partum women. (Source: NHS Networks)
Source: NHS Networks - June 27, 2016 Category: UK Health Source Type: news
Canada Legalizes Assisted Dying, But Leaves Doctors In Dark On Rules
Physician-assisted dying is now legal in Canada in cases where patients have a "grievous and irremediable" illness. But because the government has yet to pass federal legislation regulating the practice, the nation's doctors are in limbo.
The Supreme Court of Canada struck down a ban on medical assistance in dying in February 2015 -- a ruling sometimes known as the "Carter decision." It also gave the government 12 months to pass legislation -- as well as another extension earlier this year -- outlining the conditions under which doctors can end a patient's life. On Monday, that deadline passed without a fede...
Source: Healthy Living - The Huffington Post - June 7, 2016 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
The hazy world of vaping ads
In April, Britain's Royal College of Physicians reported that the hazards from e-cigarettes are likely less than the harms from smoking tobacco. As CBC Ad Guy Bruce Chambers points out, such findings fan the flames of marketing on both sides of the issue. (Source: CBC | Health)
Source: CBC | Health - May 31, 2016 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: News/Canada Source Type: news
Seven-day plan is unworkable, says royal college leader
The unresourced plan to expand seven-day services in the NHS has crushed morale in a service already ‘stretched beyond reason’, a royal college president has said.
Royal College of Physicians of London president Jane Dacre told the BMA junior doctors conference that the policy was not workable with staff struggling to meet existing demand.
Professor Dacre also told the conference that health policy — particularly during a time when resource was so scarce and demand so high — must be based on scientific evidence.
It followed a week in which health secretary Jeremy Hunt’s analysis of the ‘...
Source: BMA News - May 16, 2016 Category: UK Health Source Type: news
Imposition will be 'final straw' for juniors, doctors hear
The imposition of the junior doctors’ contract will be the ‘final straw’ for many exhausted doctors, Royal College of Physicians president Jane Dacre told a BMA special representative meeting.
Professor Dacre said morale was already near rock bottom owing to intense workload, but that it was growing worse.
She said at the meeting in London on Tuesday 3 May: ‘Staff are being stretched beyond reason to care for far too many patients, there is little quarter given to career planning and life outside medicine and, last but not least, the spectre of having to provide a seven-day service in the fut...
Source: BMA News - May 6, 2016 Category: UK Health Source Type: news
London Air Pollution Became a Major Issue in Its Mayoral Race
Air pollution—an environmental problem now more associated with the developing cities like New Delhi than the capitals of the West—has emerged as key issue in the race to elect the next London mayor, with all three leading candidates campaigning on their solutions and voters describing the problem as an important concern.
The mayoral campaign comes on the heels of a series of recent reports blaming pollution—largely from the emissions of diesel vehicles—as a leading killer in the United Kingdom. Around 40,000 people deaths annually in the country are linked to air pollution, according to a recent Ro...
Source: TIME.com: Top Science and Health Stories - May 4, 2016 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Justin Worland Tags: Uncategorized Environment Source Type: news
How Air Pollution Became a Major Issue in London Mayoral Race
Air pollution—an environmental problem now more associated with the developing cities like New Delhi than the capitals of the West—has emerged as key issue in the race to elect the next London mayor, with all three leading candidates campaigning on their solutions and voters describing the problem as an important concern.
The mayoral campaign comes on the heels of a series of recent reports blaming pollution—largely from the emissions of diesel vehicles—as a leading killer in the United Kingdom. Around 40,000 people deaths annually in the country are linked to air pollution, according to a recent Ro...
Source: TIME: Top Science and Health Stories - May 4, 2016 Category: Science Authors: Justin Worland Tags: Uncategorized Environment Source Type: news
Hospital audit reveals 40k patients given Do Not Resuscitate orders without families being told
A study of 9,000 patients conducted by the Royal College of Physicians found that a fifth of families were not informed that a DNR order had been put in place. (Source: the Mail online | Health)
Source: the Mail online | Health - May 2, 2016 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
E-cigarettes are “important” in reducing avoidable deaths, RCP experts say
E-cigarettes are an “important” tool in reducing the number of avoidable deaths from smoking according to experts from the Royal College of Physicians
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Source: Management in Practice - April 28, 2016 Category: Practice Management Authors: kschofield Tags: *** Editor ' s Pick Patients Latest News Source Type: news
E-cigarettes are “important” in reducing avoidable deaths, RCP experts say
E-cigarettes are an “important” tool in reducing the number of avoidable deaths from smoking according to experts from the Royal College of Physicians
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Source: Nursing in Practice - April 28, 2016 Category: Nursing Authors: Kerrie Schofield Tags: Smoking cessation Editor ' s pick Latest News Source Type: news
Nicotine without smoke: Tobacco harm reduction
This report published by the Royal College of Physicians aims to provide an update on the use of harm reduction in tobacco smoking, in relation to all non-tobacco nicotine products but particularly e-cigarettes. It concludes that, for all the potential risks involved, harm reduction has huge potential to prevent death and disability from tobacco use, and to hasten our progress to a tobacco-free society. (Source: Current Awareness Service for Health (CASH))
Source: Current Awareness Service for Health (CASH) - April 28, 2016 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
U.K. doctors urge wide promotion of e-cigarettes to help smokers quit
E-cigarettes are likely to bring benefits for public health and should be widely promoted to smokers to help them quit tobacco, according to Britain's Royal College of Physicians. (Source: CBC | Health)
Source: CBC | Health - April 28, 2016 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: News/Health Source Type: news
U.K. Report Advocates E-Cigarettes as Tobacco Substitute
Substituting electronic cigarettes for tobacco is beneficial to public health and should be encouraged for current smokers, according to a report from the U.K.’s Royal College of Physicians. (Source: WSJ.com: Health)
Source: WSJ.com: Health - April 28, 2016 Category: Pharmaceuticals Tags: FREE Source Type: news
