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NHS spending over £1m a week on private ambulances for 999 callouts, says UNISON 
The NHS is spending at least £61 million a year – over £1m a week or £167,000 a day – hiring private ambulances to attend emergency calls, says UNISON today (Monday) as its annual health conference opens in Bournemouth. North West Ambulance Service spent more than £15m between January and December 2022 on private emergency services, according to data obtained by the union. South Central Ambulance Service spent £19m over the past financial year, North East Ambulance Service is paying just under £7m annually, and South East Coast around £6m a year. East Midlands Ambulance Service predicts a £9.5m spend in the ...
Source: UNISON Health care news - April 17, 2023 Category: UK Health Authors: Fatima Ayad Tags: News Press release Ambulance Sara Gorton Source Type: news

AlzEye: longitudinal record-level linkage of ophthalmic imaging and hospital admissions of 353 157 patients in London, UK
Purpose Retinal signatures of systemic disease (‘oculomics’) are increasingly being revealed through a combination of high-resolution ophthalmic imaging and sophisticated modelling strategies. Progress is currently limited not mainly by technical issues, but by the lack of large labelled datasets, a sine qua non for deep learning. Such data are derived from prospective epidemiological studies, in which retinal imaging is typically unimodal, cross-sectional, of modest number and relates to cohorts, which are not enriched with subpopulations of interest, such as those with systemic disease. We thus linked longitu...
Source: BMJ Open - March 16, 2022 Category: General Medicine Authors: Wagner, S. K., Hughes, F., Cortina-Borja, M., Pontikos, N., Struyven, R., Liu, X., Montgomery, H., Alexander, D. C., Topol, E., Petersen, S. E., Balaskas, K., Hindley, J., Petzold, A., Rahi, J. S., Denniston, A. K., Keane, P. A. Tags: Open access, Ophthalmology Source Type: research

Late Breaking Abstract - Management of COVID-19 pneumonia in an enhanced respiratory step down unit: a novel approach
Throughout the COVID-19 pandemic, patients have received escalated care on specialist respiratory wards outside of intensive care units (ICU) in various forms. We performed this study to review the effectiveness of an enhanced respiratory step-down unit (ECU) during the COVID-19 pandemic at Warrington and Halton Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust.This was a retrospective observational study of patients admitted to the ECU from ICU between April 2020 and January 2021. Data collected included demographics, treatments given and outcomes.We accepted patients to the ECU following level 2-3 care but still requiring speciali...
Source: European Respiratory Journal - November 25, 2021 Category: Respiratory Medicine Authors: Agrawal, V. A., Ravi, A., Prior, A., Proctor, J., Baluwala, A. H. Tags: Respiratory infections and bronchiectasis Source Type: research

Contemporary Stroke Risks of Patients with Asymptomatic Carotid Stenosis: Design and Characteristics of a Large Prospective Cohort Study
Introduction: Randomised trials have shown that successful carotid endarterectomy (CEA) approximately halves 5-year stroke risk among patients with tight asymptomatic carotid artery stenosis. The benefits of CEA with current medical therapies (including higher dose statins) are unclear. A reliable estimation of stroke risks requires follow up of a large cohort of patients with unoperated asymptomatic carotid stenosis and this report describes the design and characteristics of patients being recruited to this UK Carotid Cohort Study.
Source: European Journal of Vascular and Endovascular Surgery - November 30, 2019 Category: Surgery Authors: Michiel Poorthuis, Dylan Morris, Kamran Gaba, Dominic Howard, Gert de Borst, Richard Bulbulia, Alison Halliday, UKCCS Collaborative Group: John Radcliffe Hospital Oxford and Gloucestershire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust Source Type: research

Pilot surgery service to close treatment gap
East Kent Hospitals University Foundation Trust could become one of the first hospitals to offer thrombectomies for stroke patients outside a neuroscience centre as part of a six-month pilot.
Source: HSJ - January 29, 2019 Category: UK Health Source Type: news

Stroke rehabilitation service quality improvement plan - a tale of two towns
Purpose: Oxford Health NHS Foundation Trust (OHFT) committed to a Stroke Quality Improvement (QI) Project to enhance the quality of rehabilitation for patients on the Oxfordshire Stroke Pathway. Following poor performance in the national indicators Sentinel Stroke National Audit Program (SSNAP) and local Key Performance Indicators (KPIs), the Stroke Quality meeting was initiated by the physiotherapy team to review care and develop a multi-professional improvement plan. Aligning service provision with that recommended in the 2016 Royal College of Physicians National Stroke Guidelines required consolidation of two stroke uni...
Source: Physiotherapy - January 1, 2019 Category: Physiotherapy Authors: E. Garratt, S. Bolton Tags: P197 Source Type: research

The impact of a physiotherapist in the role of clinical matron within the stroke service of Hampshire Hospitals Foundation Trust
Purpose: To explore the impact of putting senior clinicians at the bedside with clinical expertise in their speciality to improve quality of patient care. This role was introduced at HHFT in 2016, whilst mainly undertaken by senior nurses, 2 physiotherapists and an occupational therapist have also undertaken the role. This presentation explores the impact of physiotherapists undertaking such roles.
Source: Physiotherapy - January 1, 2019 Category: Physiotherapy Authors: L. Dyer Tags: P103 Source Type: research

Acute Neurotoxicity during ALL Therapy Is Associated with Treatment Intensity, Age and Female Sex - an Analysis of SAE Reports from the UKALL 2003 Trial
Discussion:This large study identifies treatment intensity as the main risk factor for developing acute neurotoxicity with female sex, age and CNS status having a significant modifying effect. CNS status may reflect increased intrathecal therapy given to non-CNS-1 patients. Females are more vulnerable to cranial radiotherapy induced neurotoxicity but this is the first report of female sex as a risk factor on contemporary chemotherapy treatment protocols. Reassuringly, the occurrence of acute neurotoxicity did not influence survival rates. These data provide an important benchmark for ongoing international deep phenotyping ...
Source: Blood - November 21, 2018 Category: Hematology Authors: Wahid, Q.-u.-A., Hamadeh, L., McGowan, S., Hough, R., Vora, A., Moorman, A. V., Halsey, C. Tags: 612. Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia: Clinical Studies: Poster I Source Type: research

Blackpool patient poisoning suspect understood to be nurse
A nurse from Blackpool Teaching Hospitals Foundation Trust has been arrested on suspicion of administering poison to stroke patients.
Source: Nursing Times - November 20, 2018 Category: Nursing Source Type: news

The role of hippocampal pathology in post-stroke cognitive impairment
Background Cognitive impairment is common following cerebrovascular disease. Recently it has been associated with hippocampal ultra-structural damage in stroke survivors. We aim to study the long-term cognitive profile of patients after ischaemic stroke and characterise the cognitive behaviours associated with any dynamic changes in the structure, function and metabolism of the hippocampi, using multimodal MRI at 3Tesla. Methods We are conducting a dual-centre study to investigate the predictive value of diagnostic MRI and resting-state fMRI based on observing natural history of cognitive function following stroke (at bas...
Source: Journal of Neurology, Neurosurgery and Psychiatry - November 14, 2016 Category: Neurosurgery Authors: Hosseini, A. A., Ispoglou, S., Hayton, T., Evans, R., Wilson, M., Sawlani, V., Rotshtein, P., Auer, D. P. Tags: Stroke, Memory disorders (psychiatry), Radiology, Radiology (diagnostics) ABN Annual Meeting, 17-19 May 2016, The Brighton Centre, Brighton Source Type: research

Men With Psoriasis Could Be More Likely To Have This Sexual Problem
(Reuters Health) - Men with psoriasis may be more prone to erectile dysfunction than their peers without this skin disease, and their odds of sexual difficulties are even higher if they are depressed or have other health problems like diabetes or high blood pressure, a Chinese study suggests.  Researchers studied sexual function in 191 patients with psoriasis and an equal number of healthy men. They found 53 percent of the men with psoriasis reported erectile dysfunction, compared with 40 percent in the healthy control group. Men with psoriasis were significantly more likely to report severe erectile dysfunction, whil...
Source: Science - The Huffington Post - March 25, 2016 Category: Science Source Type: news

Trust shuts beds after raising of nurse ratio concerns
Southend University Hospital NHS Foundation Trust has been forced into significant bed closures after inspectors raised concerns about staff ratios and its stroke services.
Source: Nursing Times - March 22, 2016 Category: Nursing Source Type: news

Hospital shuts beds after CQC raises staffing ratio concerns
PERFORMANCE: Southend University Hospital Foundation Trust has been forced into significant bed closures after inspectors raised concerns about staff ratios and its stroke services, HSJ has learned.
Source: HSJ - March 21, 2016 Category: UK Health Source Type: news

Difficult decisions.
Abstract UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS of Morecambe Bay NHS Foundation Trust is one of only two acute trusts to gain national Gold Standards Framework (GSF) accreditation for its end of life care on a stroke ward. PMID: 26018479 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]
Source: Nursing Older People - May 28, 2015 Category: Nursing Authors: Scott A Tags: Nurs Older People Source Type: research

Robots are helping stroke patients regain the use of their arms
‘Rehabilitation robots’, which work by supporting a patient's arm letting them move between two targets are being trialled at Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust and Newcastle University.
Source: the Mail online | Health - July 3, 2014 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news