Health and social care funding to 2024/25
Health Foundation - This analysis sets out the scale of the challenge facing government if it wants to clear the backlog in NHS care over the course of this parliament and return hospital waiting times to 18 weeks. It estimates it will cost up to £16.8bn over the remainder of this parliament (up to 2024/25) to enable the NHS to clear the backlog of people waiting for routine elective care, return to 18 weeks, and treat millions of ‘missing’ patients who were expected to receive care during the pandemic but did not. In all, this would al low an additional 2.2million extra patients to be seen a year. This slide de...
Source: Health Management Specialist Library - September 6, 2021 Category: UK Health Authors: The King ' s Fund Library Tags: NHS finance Source Type: blogs
Levita Robotic Platform: Interview with Alberto Rodriguez-Navarro, CEO of Levita Magnetics
Levita Magnetics, a California-based company that specializes in laparoscopic systems, has recently announced that its Levita Robotic Platform, a surgical robot that is still in development, has been used to perform surgery on a patient for the first time in a hospital in Chile. The robot uses similar magnetic technology as in the company’s handheld Levita Magnetic Surgical System.
The technology developed by Levita involves using magnets that are applied externally to control and manipulate devices, such as graspers, that are inserted into the body during laparoscopic surgery. The technique has the advantage of not n...
Source: Medgadget - August 3, 2021 Category: Medical Devices Authors: Conn Hastings Tags: Exclusive Ob/Gyn Surgery Thoracic Surgery Urology Vascular Surgery Source Type: blogs
Lessons from the 2000s: the ambition to reduce waits must be matched with patience and realism
The King's Fund - As a result of Covid-19 waiting times for NHS treatment, already an issue before the pandemic, have grown to historic highs – or have they? Richard Murray compares current waiting times to those seen in the 2000s – and asks what we can learn from the last time the NHS tackled long waits.Read it now (Source: Health Management Specialist Library)
Source: Health Management Specialist Library - August 2, 2021 Category: UK Health Authors: The King ' s Fund Library Tags: NHS performance and productivity Source Type: blogs
Fight Aging! Newsletter, June 7th 2021
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Source: Fight Aging! - June 6, 2021 Category: Research Authors: Reason Tags: Newsletters Source Type: blogs
A new deal for surgery
This report highlights the challenges that exist on access to NHS surgical services in England due to the impact of the Covid-19 pandemic and provides recommendations for recovery. These include asking the government to support adoption of the ‘surgical hub’ model across England for appropriate specialties, to help reduce elective waiting times and ensure surgical patients can be treated safely. The report also asks the government to adopt longer-term aims of increasing the number of hospital beds and doctors to reach the OECD average .ReportPress release (Source: Health Management Specialist Library)
Source: Health Management Specialist Library - June 1, 2021 Category: UK Health Authors: The King ' s Fund Library Tags: Covid-19 NHS performance and productivity Source Type: blogs
Senescent Cells as a Mechanism for Worse Outcomes in Transplantation of Older Organs
Senescent cells accumulate with age in tissues throughout the body. They secrete a mix of signals that provokes chronic inflammation, disruption of tissue maintenance, and changes in cell behavior that lead to pathology. Targeted clearance of senescent cells has been shown to produce rejuvenation in mice, a reversal of many different age-related conditions, particularly those strongly linked to the chronic inflammation of aging. In this context, researchers here discuss the presence of greater numbers of senescent cells in older tissues as an important mechanism determining outcomes for patients following organ transplanta...
Source: Fight Aging! - May 31, 2021 Category: Research Authors: Reason Tags: Daily News Source Type: blogs
New Cato Survey Helps Reframe the Debate Over Legal Immigration
Alex NowrastehMy colleaguesEmily Ekins and David Kemp just released an excellent new survey on how Americans view immigration and identity. We all worked together on crafting the questions for several months prior to publication and the results are very interesting. Below are some findings and some lessons that folks who support immigration should take to heart.First, thesurvey shows that most people know almost nothing about immigration. Even basic facts elude them. About 14 percent of the U.S. population is foreign ‐born but the average respondent thinks that 40 percent of the country’s population is foreign‐...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - May 5, 2021 Category: American Health Authors: Alex Nowrasteh Source Type: blogs
7 Things You Can Expect From A.I. In Healthcare
Artificial Intelligence (A.I.) has for long been the subject of the fertile minds of science-fiction writers and movie directors. HAL 9000, Skynet and JARVIS are some of the many A.I. names sci-fi enthusiasts are familiar with. They streamline administrative tasks, entertain humans and, of course, become overlords threatening human existence.
Now, thanks to technological progress, such A.I. are breaking out of the confines of movies and books and into healthcare. While they aren’t threatening our existence, they are helping in improving the medical field. From forecasting disease outbreaks to helping in new...
Source: The Medical Futurist - October 21, 2020 Category: Information Technology Authors: Prans Tags: Artificial Intelligence in Medicine Digital Health Research E-Patients Future of Medicine Healthcare Design Healthcare Policy Medical Education Personalized Medicine Portable Medical Diagnostics Robotics Science Fiction Security & Pr Source Type: blogs
Health, care and cash: improving the lives of older people in'red wall' England
Age UK -This briefing discusses the social policies that could be beneficial to older people living in the'red wall'. This includes looking at issues such as access to the NHS, waiting times, health outcomes, funding of social care, housing and financial support.Briefing paperAge UK - publications (Source: Health Management Specialist Library)
Source: Health Management Specialist Library - October 6, 2020 Category: UK Health Authors: The King ' s Fund Library Tags: Local authorities, public health and health inequalities Source Type: blogs
Fight Aging! Newsletter, September 7th 2020
In conclusion, using a large cohort with rich health and DNA methylation data, we provide the first comparison of six major epigenetic measures of biological ageing with respect to their associations with leading causes of mortality and disease burden. DNAm GrimAge outperformed the other measures in its associations with disease data and associated clinical traits. This may suggest that predicting mortality, rather than age or homeostatic characteristics, may be more informative for common disease prediction. Thus, proteomic-based methods (as utilised by DNAm GrimAge) using large, physiologically diverse protein sets for p...
Source: Fight Aging! - September 6, 2020 Category: Research Authors: Reason Tags: Newsletters Source Type: blogs
Clearance of Senescent Cells as a Way to Expand the Donor Organ Supply
Researchers here provide a proof of principle to suggest that the presence of senescent cells in older organs contributes meaningfully to transplant rejection, via mechanisms that spur greater immune activity. This is of course only one of the ways in which senescent cell accumulation with age contributes to degenerative aging, the dysfunction of cells and tissues throughout the body. It may be possible to apply senolytic treatments that clear senescent cells to donor organs prior to transplantation (preferably), or to the patient immediately following transplantation (with the risk that it will suppress regeneration for a...
Source: Fight Aging! - September 3, 2020 Category: Research Authors: Reason Tags: Daily News Source Type: blogs
Can We Eliminate Waiting Times From Healthcare Forever?
Wake up early, get ready quickly, travel to the hospital while hoping to get there before others start lining up and wait till the doctor sees you. If you encountered any downtimes along the way to this “hospital journey maze”, you know you’ll be there for more time than planned. But you know the drill as it’s a quasi-global phenomenon and an expected component of the healthcare experience: waiting times.
This component is as “pleasant” as it sounds. A survey from Software Advice that involved over 5000 patients found that 97% of respondents were frustrated by wait times at the doctor’s office. Another rep...
Source: The Medical Futurist - August 13, 2020 Category: Information Technology Authors: Prans Tags: Artificial Intelligence Healthcare Design waiting time Source Type: blogs
The Henry Fords of healthcare : lessons the West can learn from the East
Institute of Economic Affairs - This publication examines the lessons Western nations could learn from some developing countries in fostering innovation and entrepreneurship in healthcare. Health systems in Western countries are “plagued by inefficiency and productivity growth”: in adopting a new approach they could cut costs, increase quality, and reduce waiting times.PublicationMore detail (Source: Health Management Specialist Library)
Source: Health Management Specialist Library - July 29, 2020 Category: UK Health Authors: The King ' s Fund Library Source Type: blogs
Managing Surgical Wait Times in the Intra-COVID-19 World
Finding the Right Prioritization Model
By JUSTIN SPECTOR
Restrictions on elective surgical volume in hospitals across the United States are causing a dilemma heretofore unseen in the American healthcare system. Surgeons across services have large and growing backlogs of elective surgeries in an environment where operating room (OR) capacity is restricted due to availability of inpatient beds, personal protective equipment (PPE), staffing, and many other constraints. Fortunately, the U.S. is not the first country to experience and deal with this situation; for many countries, this is the normal state of medicine.
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Source: The Health Care Blog - June 15, 2020 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Christina Liu Tags: COVID-19 Health Tech Health Technology Justin Spector LeanTaaS Surgery surgical wait times Source Type: blogs
Primary Care Practices Need Help to Survive the COVID-19 Pandemic
Ken Terry
Paul Grundy
By PAUL GRUNDY, MD and KEN TERRY
Date: June 20, 2022.
The Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History has reported its biggest number of visitors in more than 2 ½ years. There’s a string of new Broadway musicals that are well-attended every night. It’s safe to shop in malls, eat out in restaurants and go to movie theaters again.
Of course, this has all been made possible by an effective vaccine against COVID-19 that was widely administered in the fall of 2021. Vaccinated citizens of the world are now confident that it’s safe to go out in public, albeit with appropriate precaut...
Source: The Health Care Blog - May 29, 2020 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Christina Liu Tags: COVID-19 Medical Practice Primary Care Ken Terry Paul Grundy Source Type: blogs
