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Huge vacancy rates across care sector adding to staff mental health crisis
The government’s failure to deal with the growing staffing crisis in social care risks worsening the mounting mental health toll on workers, says UNISON today (Wednesday).
Figures from a recent UNISON survey show a substantial proportion of care workers have suffered problems during the pandemic including post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), with more than two thirds (68%) saying their mental health has declined.
The vast majority said their work had contributed to the difficulties they were experiencing. UNISON says there is a serious risk their health woes could worsen becau...
Source: UNISON Health care news - September 14, 2021 Category: UK Health Authors: Fatima Ayad Tags: Press release adult social care Christina McAnea mental health Source Type: news
Take the profiteering out of care sector and pay staff fair wages, says UNISON
Social care should cease to be a profit-making enterprise that allows companies free rein to exploit staff and the people they look after, says UNISON today (Tuesday).
In a speech to Labour conference, UNISON general secretary Christina McAnea also criticised Boris Johnson’s failure to provide a proper plan to reform social care and called for a national care service.
She said workers should be paid at least the real living wage and there should be a full and independent public inquiry into the government’s handling of the pandemic.
“Eighteen months ago, when we went into lockdown, we were all scared about what ...
Source: UNISON Health care news - September 28, 2021 Category: UK Health Authors: Sophie Goodchild Tags: News Press release adult social care labour conference Source Type: news
Double-jab rule risks care collapse, says UNISON
Care homes face closure if the government persists with draconian plans to sack care staff who aren’t doubled-vaccinated by midnight tomorrow (Wednesday), warns UNISON.
The union says the ‘no jab, no job’ policy risks the collapse of care companies, and needless upset for thousands of elderly residents and their families.
Care staff will be banned from entering care homes in England unless they are double jabbed by 11 November. Today (Tuesday), health and social care secretary Sajid Javid announced the double-jab rule will be extended and apply to all domiciliary care workers from 1 April.
However, the care sector is...
Source: UNISON Health care news - November 9, 2021 Category: UK Health Authors: Sophie Goodchild Tags: News Press release adult social care Covid vaccine Source Type: news
Staffing levels in care ‘dangerously low’ with dying residents denied dignified end, says UNISON survey
Nearly a third (31%) of care staff say staffing levels are dangerously low, getting worse and negatively affecting the care provided, says a UNISON survey published today (Wednesday).
The findings are based on responses from more than 1,600 care employees and reveal some dying residents are being denied a dignified end to their lives. This is because there are not enough staff to sit with them in their final hours, says the union.
Other shocking consequences of the staffing crisis highlighted by the survey include people being left in dirty sheets, denied regular baths or showers, and not helped to dress unt...
Source: UNISON Health care news - November 24, 2021 Category: UK Health Authors: Sophie Goodchild Tags: News Press release adult social care Source Type: news
Staffing levels in care ‘dangerously low’ with dying residents denied dignified end, says UNISON survey
Nearly a third (31%) of care staff say staffing levels are dangerously low, getting worse and negatively affecting the care provided, says a UNISON survey published today (Wednesday).
The findings are based on responses from more than 1,600 care employees and reveal some dying residents are being denied a dignified end to their lives. This is because there are not enough staff to sit with them in their final hours, says the union.
Other shocking consequences of the staffing crisis highlighted by the survey include people being left in dirty sheets, denied regular baths or showers, and not helped to dress u...
Source: UNISON Health care news - November 24, 2021 Category: UK Health Authors: Sophie Goodchild Tags: News Press release adult social care Source Type: news
What the Pandemic Taught Us About Value-based Care
By RICHARD ISSACS
You’ll recall that we ran a long piece (pt 1, pt 2) about Medicare Advantage from former Kaiser Permanente CEO George Halvorson earlier this year. Here’s a somewhat related piece from the current head of the Permanente Medical Group about what actually happened there and elsewhere during the pandemic–Matthew Holt
The COVID-19 pandemic has provided important lessons regarding the structure and delivery of health care in the United States, and one of the most significant takeaways has been the need to shift to value-based models of care.
The urgency for this transformation was cle...
Source: The Health Care Blog - February 17, 2022 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: matthew holt Tags: Health Policy Medical Practice Physicians Kaiser Permanente Medicare Advantage Pandemic Richard Isaacs value-based care Source Type: blogs
Attitudes Surrounding Implementation of the HPV Vaccine for Males among Primary Care Providers Serving Large Minority Populations.
Conclusions. Primary care providers included in the study were likely to report incorporation of the HPV vaccine for males as part of their regular clinical practice. Their adoption and dissemination of the vaccine will be a significant factor in determining whether its full benefits are achieved.
PMID: 23728043 [PubMed - in process]
Source: Journal of Health Care for the Poor and Underserved - June 5, 2013 Category: Global & Universal Authors: Aragones A, Bruno D, Gany F Tags: J Health Care Poor Underserved Source Type: research
Health Care Access and Utilization among Hispanic Manufacturing Workers along the Texas-Mexico Border.
This study examines factors associated with health care access and utilization among Hispanic manufacturing employees along the Texas-Mexico border. A cross-sectional survey was administered in 2010 to 228 mostly male (71%) workers. About half of participants (53%) lacked health insurance, which emerged as the most important variable related to health care access and utilization. In multivariate logistic regression analyses, relative to insured workers, uninsured workers were significantly more likely to delay getting medical care (p<.001) and to need medical services that they could not afford (p<.05). They ...
Source: Journal of Health Care for the Poor and Underserved - June 5, 2013 Category: Global & Universal Authors: Talavera-Garza L, Ghaddar S, Valerio M, Garcia C Tags: J Health Care Poor Underserved Source Type: research
Quality of hepatitis C care at an urban tertiary care medical center.
Conclusions. Quality of care is improving, but it remains suboptimal. Initiatives are needed to increase QI completion.
PMID: 24858880 [PubMed - in process]
Source: Journal of Health Care for the Poor and Underserved - May 30, 2014 Category: Global & Universal Authors: Assoumou SA, Huang W, Horsburgh CR, Mus, Linas BP Tags: J Health Care Poor Underserved Source Type: research
Using electronic health record clinical decision support is associated with improved quality of care.
Conclusions The use of CDS was associated with improvement in some quality indicators. Not having at least 1 CDS was common; disabling CDS was infrequent. This suggests that meaningful use standards may improve national quality indicators and health outcomes, once fully implemented.
PMID: 25414982 [PubMed - in process]
Source: The American Journal of Managed Care - November 28, 2014 Category: Health Management Authors: Mishuris RG, Linder JA, Bates DW, Bitton A Tags: Am J Manag Care Source Type: research
Accelerating the development of an information ecosystem in health care, by stimulating the growth of safe intermediate processing of health information (IPHI).
Authors: Liyanage H, Liaw ST, de Lusignan S
Abstract
Health care, in common with many other industries, is generating large amounts of routine data, data that are challenging to process, analyse or curate, so-called 'big data'. A challenge for health informatics is to make sense of these data. Part of the answer will come from the development of ontologies that support the use of heterogeneous data sources and the development of intermediate processors of health information (IPHI). IPHI will sit between the generators of health data and information, often the providers of health care, and the managers, commissioner...
Source: Informatics in Primary Care - December 2, 2014 Category: Primary Care Tags: Inform Prim Care Source Type: research
Consumers Take Better Preventive Care of Pets Than Themselves, CIGNA Finds
The post below first ran January 18 on Health Populi.
Nine in 10 pet owners know when their dog or cat is due for their shots. Eight in 10 women know the frequency with which they get manicures and pedicures. 80% of men know the mileage between old changes.
But only 50% of family health care decision makers know their blood pressure, and only 20% know their biometric numbers like cholesterol and BMI.
Americans are great at doing preventive care for their pets and automobiles; but not so much for their own bodies and health, finds the report CIGNA Preventive Care Research, a survey of 1,000 U.S. consumers between 25 and 75...
Source: Disruptive Women in Health Care - January 19, 2016 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: dw at disruptivewomen.net Tags: Access Consumer Health Care Patients Source Type: blogs
A payer-provider partnership for integrated care of patients receiving dialysis.
CONCLUSIONS: Promising trends were observed among members participating in this payer-provider care partnership with respect to both clinical and economic outcomes. This suggests that collaborations with shared incentives may be a valuable approach for patients with ESRD.
PMID: 29668211 [PubMed - in process]
Source: The American Journal of Managed Care - April 1, 2018 Category: Health Management Authors: Kindy J, Roer D, Wanovich R, McMurray S Tags: Am J Manag Care Source Type: research
Government must step in to prevent vaccine strong-arm tactics towards care staff
The government must take action against care home employers refusing to employ staff hesitant about having the Covid vaccine, or intimidating others into having the injection by linking it to pay and employment, says UNISON today (Friday).
If the vaccine programme is to work properly and maximum take-up across the social care secured, individuals should be encouraged, not intimidated, into receiving a jab, the union says.
UNISON has written to care minister Helen Whately calling for the government to intervene. It follows the announcement that Barchester Healthcare will not hire workers who refuse the vaccine, and...
Source: UNISON Health care news - February 5, 2021 Category: UK Health Authors: Garfield Myrie Tags: News Press release care Christina McAnea vaccine Source Type: news
The American College of Nuclear Medicine Guidance on Operating Procedures for a Nuclear Medicine Facility During COVID-19 Pandemic
The novel coronavirus 2 pandemic is causing widespread disruption in everyday life necessitating urgent and radical adaptations in operating procedures at nuclear medicine facilities. The potential for causing severe illness, COVID-19, calls for strict observance of preventive measures aimed to mitigate the spread of the virus. The threat of COVID-19 is particularly serious as there is no vaccine and no specific antiviral therapy. Further complications are introduced by shortages of personal protective equipment for healthcare workers who have direct contact with patients and effective testing to identify infected patients...
Source: Clinical Nuclear Medicine - June 11, 2021 Category: Nuclear Medicine Tags: From the American College of Nuclear Medicine Source Type: research
