Waiting for Care: is Scotland meeting its commitment to older people
This report highlights more than 4 in 10 older people with ‘critical’ or ‘substantial’ needs wait more than six weeks for social care in Scotland. It outlines six recommendations to local and national government which could help improve the position, including; more regular data recording so councils can spot trends and better respond and plan for i ncreased demand; further efforts to attract and recruit more social care workers; and ensuring that the resources required to fund social care in the future are met.ReportPress release (Source: Health Management Specialist Library)
Source: Health Management Specialist Library - May 27, 2019 Category: UK Health Authors: The King ' s Fund Information & Knowledge Service Tags: Social care Source Type: blogs
Progress delivering the Emergency Services Network
This report finds that delayed ESN is likely to be even later than expected and the gove rnment’s already increased forecast costs are highly uncertain. It recommends that the Home Office test its overall programme plan to determine whether the new schedule for launching ESN and shutting down Airwave is achievable.ReportPress release (Source: Health Management Specialist Library)
Source: Health Management Specialist Library - May 12, 2019 Category: UK Health Authors: The King ' s Fund Information & Knowledge Service Tags: NHS finances and productivity Source Type: blogs
Allan Burns
Dr Mike Cadogan Allan Burns
Allan Burns (1781 - 1813) was a Scottish anatomist and surgeon. Remembered for his monograph on heart disease, resuscitation options in cardiac arrest and Burns ligament (1802) (Source: Life in the Fast Lane)
Source: Life in the Fast Lane - May 12, 2019 Category: Emergency Medicine Authors: Dr Mike Cadogan Tags: Eponym Allan Burns Burns ligament cardiac arrest Resuscitation space of Burns syncope anginosa Source Type: blogs
JavaScript for Cheminformatics, Part 2
ConclusionsIts first release written in a matter of days by a then-obscure company, JavaScript may be the most unlikely success story in all of software. Having emerged from a dark period lasting until the mid-2000s, today's JavaScript is a full-featured programming language wrapped in a rich, mass-deployed environment. Chemistry has been extremely slow to follow the direction charted by the rest of the software industry, but glimpses into the future are everywhere. (Source: Depth-First)
Source: Depth-First - May 1, 2019 Category: Chemistry Authors: Richard L. Apodaca Source Type: blogs
Moth of the Month – Maiden ’ s Blush
Maiden’s Blush moth, Cyclophora punctaria
The Maiden’s Blush moth, Cyclophora punctaria, Spring form is not as well marked as the Summer form where the blush is more obvious, but you can still see it here.
This species is a geometer moth, which means its larvae (caterpillars) move in such a manner that they seem to measure the earth, they’re known as inchworms in the USA and elsewhere. Specifically, this member of the Geometridae is a member of the sub-family Sterrhinae, which includes the “Least Carpet” and several “Wave” moths as well as the “Blood-veins”. The species...
Source: David Bradley Sciencebase - Songs, Snaps, Science - April 25, 2019 Category: Science Authors: David Bradley Tags: Moths Source Type: blogs
The rise of food allergies
Gerry Morrow reviews the evidence-based approach to diagnosis Related items fromOnMedica NHS type 2 Diabetes Prevention Programme exceeds expectations Campaigners call for 18 age limit on energy drinks Scotland reveals target of halving child obesity by 2030 Weight loss targets exceeded on NHS type 2 diabetes prevention programme Low fat vs low carb diet success not linked to genetics (Source: OnMedica Blogs)
Source: OnMedica Blogs - April 14, 2019 Category: General Medicine Source Type: blogs
Mapping the Vikings using R
The commute to my workplace is 90 minutes each way. Podcasts are my friend. I’m a long-time listener of In Our Time and enjoyed the recent episode about The Danelaw.
Melvyn and I hail from the same part of the world, and I learned as a child that many of the local place names there were derived from Old Norse or Danish. Notably: places ending in -by denote a farmstead, settlement or village; those ending in -thwaite mean a clearing or meadow.
So how local are those names? Time for some quick and dirty maps using R.
First, we’ll need a dataset of British place names. There are quite a few of these online, but t...
Source: What You're Doing Is Rather Desperate - April 3, 2019 Category: Bioinformatics Authors: nsaunders Tags: R statistics ggplot2 history maps podcast rstats viking Source Type: blogs
Our Visit to WIRED Health 2019 at London ’s Francis Crick Institute
WIRED Health, now in its sixth year, returned to London’s Francis Crick Institute. The event was opened by Crick Institute director Paul Nurse who introduced the institute and its mission to understand the fundamental biology of human health and disease. The team at the Crick, consisting of 1500 researchers and three Nobel Prize winners, make up Europe’s largest biomedical research facility with an already impressive slate of research, despite being only two years old. The theme of WIRED Heath and the venue’s vision was perfectly summarized by Sir Paul, who closed his address with the charge “from this crucible th...
Source: Medgadget - April 2, 2019 Category: Medical Devices Authors: Tom Peach Tags: Exclusive Medicine Public Health Society Source Type: blogs
Stand to lose?
Phil Hammond ponders whether it is worth entering the political game Related items fromOnMedica Government publishes vision for future of general practice Watchdogs say health reforms are slow Scotland fights to prevent privatisation of general practice NHS faces 'most severe financial challenge' ever Workforce shortages and Brexit threaten long-term NHS Plan goals (Source: OnMedica Blogs)
Source: OnMedica Blogs - March 11, 2019 Category: General Medicine Source Type: blogs
Blackouts or loss of consciousness
The challenge of a definitive diagnosis Related items fromOnMedica Earlier thrombolysis improves stroke outcomes Breath-free CPR may be best for non-experts Safety questions over adrenaline for cardiac arrest Heart disease and stroke deaths plummet in Scotland MHRA tightens licence restrictions on valproate for women (Source: OnMedica Blogs)
Source: OnMedica Blogs - March 10, 2019 Category: General Medicine Source Type: blogs
Hadrian's Wall Was a Policy Statement; So Is Donald Trump's
It ' s not clear if Hadrian ' s Wall was necessary to prevent Scottish fighters from invading the Roman Empire. Neither is it clear how effective Trump ' s wall would be at repelling undocumented immigration and smugglers. Hadrian ' s Wall may have been of symbolic value to those on both sides of it. Trump ' s could be, too. (Source: The RAND Blog)
Source: The RAND Blog - March 5, 2019 Category: Health Management Authors: Brian Michael Jenkins Source Type: blogs
Sensor Detects Sepsis Biomarker in Less Than Three Minutes
Fulminate sepsis is a dangerous condition, usually caused by a bacterial infection. The runaway behavior of the immune system in sepsis is still poorly understood. The trick is to diagnose it early and to use antibiotics to fight it off.
These days it can take up to three days to diagnose sepsis, usually via a blood culture, which is one of the primary reasons that it is one of the main causes of death inside of hospitals. Researchers at the University of Strathclyde in Scotland have developed a sensor that can detect a common sepsis biomarker in a matter of minutes.
Interleukin-6, a glycoprotein, is typically released by...
Source: Medgadget - February 26, 2019 Category: Medical Devices Authors: Editors Tags: Critical Care Materials Pathology Source Type: blogs
Our Dead on Every Shore
By MAYURA DESHPANDE
I once made a serious error. The patient had taken an overdose of paracetamol, but because I was single-handedly covering three inpatient acute psychiatric wards due to sickness of two other trainees which medical HR had been unable to cover, with a lot of agency nurses who did not know any of the patients well at all, and also because this patient frequently said she had taken overdoses when she had not, and declined to let me take bloods to test for paracetamol levels, I believed she was crying wolf. She collapsed several hours later, and died. I was overwhelmed with feelings of guilt, inadequacy, b...
Source: The Health Care Blog - February 26, 2019 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: matthew holt Tags: NHS Patients Physicians Adverse Events Mayura Deshpande Source Type: blogs
China Uses DNA to Track Its People, With the Help of American (Yale) Expertise - from a Yale scientist sadly all too familiar to this author
You saw it here on Healthcare Renewal first.In 2005 and 2007 I ' d written the posts:"Academic abuses in biomedicine vs. Indigenous Peoples: The Genographic Project" (http://hcrenewal.blogspot.com/2005/09/academic-abuses-in-biomedicine-vs.html)and"Informed consent, exploitation and developing a SNP panel for forensic identification of individuals" (http://hcrenewal.blogspot.com/2007/07/informed-consent-and-developing-snp.html)respectively.The theme of these posts was that genetics research (especially that centering on profiling) by unscrupulous scientists could have unforeseen, adverse (if not devastating) consequences to...
Source: Health Care Renewal - February 25, 2019 Category: Health Management Tags: Allele Frequency Database China genetics Kelsang Dolma Kenneth Kidd Uighurs Yale Yale Daily News Source Type: blogs
For Those Who Are Serious About Increasing Access to MAT for Opioid Use Disorder …
The synthetic opioid methadone, developed in Germany in the 1930s for the treatment of severe pain, has been employed for the Medication Assisted Treatment (MAT) of heroin addiction and opioid use disorder since the 1960s. In the US, methadone clinics are tightly regulated by the Drug Enforcement Administration and the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration. Patients receiving methadone to treat their addiction must ingest it under the observation and supervision of clinic staff, who keep it in a lock box. Eventually, patients are permitted to take a few doses home with them for use over the weekend, a...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - February 25, 2019 Category: American Health Authors: Jeffrey A. Singer Source Type: blogs
