Guidance on the review of PPU arrangements under the Private Healthcare Market Investigation Order 2014
Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) - This guidance sets out the CMA ’s approach to reviewing Private Patient Unit (PPU) arrangements. That is, arrangements for a private hospital operator to operate, manage, or otherwise provide privately-funded healthcare services at a private patient unit in England, Wales, Northern Ireland, or Scotland.GuidanceMore detail (Source: Health Management Specialist Library)
Source: Health Management Specialist Library - February 20, 2019 Category: UK Health Authors: The King ' s Fund Information & Knowledge Service Tags: Regulation, governance and accountability Source Type: blogs
Innovative Skin to Electrically Power Prosthetic Devices
Powered prosthetic devices need a great deal of electricity to energize them throughout the day. Researchers at the University of Glasgow in Scotland have developed a combination electronic “skin” that can generate and store electricity for prosthetic devices.
The technology consists of layers of a finely tuned graphite-polyurethane composite covered by graphene, a material only one carbon atom in thickness. The graphite-polyurethane works as an electric supercapacitor, storing energy that can be used at any time by a prosthetic. The graphene component is essentially a solar panel that converts sunlight to elec...
Source: Medgadget - February 14, 2019 Category: Medical Devices Authors: Editors Tags: Materials Rehab Source Type: blogs
Will US Drug Policymakers Blow It Again —This Time With Benzodiazepines?
In a recent column, Maia Szalavitz reports on the rise in overdose deaths related to benzodiazepines (a class of tranquilizers including Xanax, Valium, and Ativan). According to a recent study in JAMA, the number benzodiazepine prescriptions doubled in the US from 2003 to 2015. And benzodiazepines are found in the bloodstream of almost a third of all opioid overdose victims—a nearly ten-fold increase since the beginning of this century. Szalavitz reminds us that the US is not the only developed country with an overdose problem from the nonmedical use of prescription drugs: Scotland has been contending with th...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - February 14, 2019 Category: American Health Authors: Jeffrey A. Singer Source Type: blogs
Ethnicity
Don ' t get me wrong. I love Elizabeth Warren. She has spent her distinguished academic and political career fighting for justice and equity. She sees right through the BS thrown up in justification for plutocracy and talks to people in plain language with no apologies for her progressive beliefs. I think she ' d make a great president.But . . .I do think that her repeated claims on various official documents that she has Native American heritage -- and even, on her Texas bar application that sheis straight up Native American -- are very strange behavior that she has not sufficiently explored and explained in public. She s...
Source: Stayin' Alive - February 13, 2019 Category: American Health Source Type: blogs
Bob Murphy on Free Banking in Canada
A few months aftermy April 2018 Soho debate with him concerning whether fractional reserve banking is damaging to an economy ’s health, Bob Murphy gave a lecture on “Rothbardians vs. ‘Free Bankers’ on Fractional Reserve Banking.”Bob devotes asubstantial chunk of that lecture to elaborating upon what he considers shortcomings of my particular arguments in favor of free banking. Though he is generous enough to allow that my theoretical arguments are not quite a cinch to refute, he thinks rather less of the empirical evidence I offer in support of those arguments. In particular, he calls the evidence supporting my c...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - February 12, 2019 Category: American Health Authors: George Selgin Source Type: blogs
Screen time - a moral panic for the 21st century?
Why moderation may be the safest approach Related items fromOnMedica Hundreds of schools set to test mental health support techniques Experts urge radical action on mental health crises We are ‘sitting on a young people’s health time bomb’ Parental illness linked to children's increased use of health services Scotland reveals target of halving child obesity by 2030 (Source: OnMedica Blogs)
Source: OnMedica Blogs - February 8, 2019 Category: General Medicine Source Type: blogs
Retaliation against physicians reporting EHR flaws that cause use errors? Physicians subpoenaed in Rhode Island, allegedly after reporting EHR risks
It appears that way to my eye. First, on use errors (as opposed to user errors from carelessness):“Use error” is a term used very specifically by NIST to refer to user interface designs that will engender users to make errors of commission or omission. It is true that users do make errors, but many errors are due not to user error per se but due to designs that are flawed, e.g., poorly written messaging, misuse of color-coding conventions, omission of information, etc. From"NISTIR 7804: Technical Evaluation, Testing and Validation of the Usability of Electronic Health Records." It is available athttp://www.nist.g...
Source: Health Care Renewal - January 29, 2019 Category: Health Management Tags: David Levesque healthcare IT difficulties Lifespan retaliation rhode island hospital use error Source Type: blogs
Contained and controlled: the UK ’s 20-year vision for antimicrobial resistance
Department of Health and Social Care -This document contains a plan on how the UK will contribute to containing and controlling antimicrobial resistance by 2040. The vision and plan were developed across the government, its agencies and administrations in Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland, with support from a range of stakeholders. It is supported by the UK five-year action plan for antimicrobial resistance 2019 to 2024.ReportFive year planDepartment of Health and Social Care - publications (Source: Health Management Specialist Library)
Source: Health Management Specialist Library - January 24, 2019 Category: UK Health Authors: The King ' s Fund Information & Knowledge Service Tags: Local authorities, public health and health inequalities Source Type: blogs
Isle of Dreams
Zac Beauchamp provides a good summary (though lengthy) of the impossible twist of the knickers the Brits have gotten themselves into. The Brexit referendum only passed in the first place because its proponents lied to the voters. Even so, it depended on xenophobia and racism to attract a majority. Because it was premised on lies, it is literally impossible to produce the result that proponents promised, and are still pretending to demand.I don ' t want to belabor the details here, some of which I have discussed before. The Ireland-Northern Ireland border problem is insoluble, as is the problem of British citizens living on...
Source: Stayin' Alive - January 16, 2019 Category: American Health Source Type: blogs
Can watching sports be bad for your health?
As the new year begins, sports fans rejoice! You’ve had the excitement of the college football bowl games and the national championship, the NFL playoff games are winnowing teams down to the Super Bowl contestants, and basketball and hockey seasons are in full swing. There’s even some early talk of spring training for the upcoming Major League Baseball season.
While I hate to rain on anyone’s parade, the truth is that there can be health risks associated with watching sports. I’ve seen it firsthand while working in a walk-in clinic near Fenway Park, where people would show up bleeding from cuts that needed stitches...
Source: Harvard Health Blog - January 11, 2019 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Robert H. Shmerling, MD Tags: Health Source Type: blogs
Bohemian Waxwings
First time I saw Bohemian Waxwings (Bombycilla garrulus), a flock of 80 or so were in trees at the parking area on the Cambridge Science Park. I heard their unmistakable tweeting first but didn’t catch a photo before they flocked off down Milton Road. After that, I kept my ear to the air (well the UK Waxwings twitter feed) in the hope of more sightings as the winter went on. Never did see them again to photograph…
…until we were visiting Newcastle and I heard that there were apparently a dozen or so in berry-rich trees opposite St Bartholomew’s Church in Long Benton. The trees are in the gardens of...
Source: David Bradley Sciencebase - Songs, Snaps, Science - December 21, 2018 Category: Science Authors: David Bradley Tags: Sciencebase Source Type: blogs
Individual 1 and cash washing
A commenter (unpublished, because I ' m responding to it here) asks why I ' m so confident that individual 1 ' s business consists of laundering money for Russian mobsters. The caseis made here, by John Feffer, and it ' s pretty compelling. Too long, do read, but a couple of money shots:Before he became president, Donald Trump was basically an unsuccessful businessman who managed, time and again, to fail upward. He filed for bankruptcy six times — five times for his casinos and once for the Plaza Hotel.. . . An astounding number of his other business ventures have gone belly up too, including Trump A...
Source: Stayin' Alive - December 13, 2018 Category: American Health Source Type: blogs
State-backed or practice-backed indemnity?
A ‘rescue package’ that is not all what it seems Related items fromOnMedica Review published to protect doctors over medical errors Doctors believe patient care has worsened Rapid review ordered into medical manslaughter laws Scotland to introduce legal requirement on NHS staffing ‘Prioritise’ junior doctors’ mental health, bosses told (Source: OnMedica Blogs)
Source: OnMedica Blogs - December 5, 2018 Category: General Medicine Source Type: blogs
A New Brexit Referendum Would Indeed Be A Betrayal of The First
Ilya Somin offers a typically thoughtful case for why a second Brexit referendum would not be a betrayal of the 2016 result. His argument, as I read it, is this: Theresa May’s likely defeat on her dreadful proposed Withdrawal Agreement grants an opportunity to reassess the wisdom of leaving the EU. Given a referendum was the means of making the decision to leave, a referendum is a perfectly legitimate mechanism to test whether the public still wants to. Ergo, deciding to ultimately Remain in a second referendum would not betray the result of the first vote.I disagree.A second referendum so soon would violate the U.K. ...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - December 4, 2018 Category: American Health Authors: Ryan Bourne Source Type: blogs
