What's new in midwifery - 4th March 2020
Where is last week ' s? Some disruption to service caused by the current University and College Union industrial action. Why are we striking? Read more at https://ucu.org.uk/strikeforuss andhttps://ucu.org.uk/he2019.Some recent things you may need to know. Official statisticsConceptions in England and Wales, 2018Quarterly conceptions to women aged under 18 years, England and Wales, October - December 2018Female Genital Mutilation October 2019 - December 2019 (NHS Digital)Maternity Services Monthly Statistics November 2019, experimental statisticsStatistics on Women ' ...
Source: Browsing - March 4, 2020 Category: Databases & Libraries Tags: midwifery Source Type: blogs
Deaths in prison: a national scandal
This report aims to provide insight and analysis into findings from 61 prison inquests in England and Wales in 2018 and 2019. It details safety failures including mental and physical health care, communication systems, emergency responses, and drugs and medication. It also looks at the wider statistics and historic context. It makes recommendations to improve safety and prevent future deaths including reallocating resources from criminal justice to community-based health and welfare services.ReportInquest - press release (Source: Health Management Specialist Library)
Source: Health Management Specialist Library - January 21, 2020 Category: UK Health Authors: The King ' s Fund Library Tags: Local authorities, public health and health inequalities Regulation, governance and accountability Source Type: blogs
Fifth patient report of the National Emergency Laparotomy Audit (NELA): December 2017 to November 2018
Royal College of Anaesthetists - Commissioned by the Healthcare Quality Improvement Partnership as part of the National Clinical Audit Programme, this report analyses the care received by close to 25,000 emergency bowel surgery patients treated in NHS hospitals in England and Wales between December 2017 and November 2018. Amongst the findings is that time to antibiotics in patients with sepsis remains poor with 80.6 per cent not receiving antibiotics within one hour. The report is the fifth report of NELA and offers a series of recommendations to reduce variation in the care of patients undergoing emergency bowel sur...
Source: Health Management Specialist Library - January 6, 2020 Category: UK Health Authors: The King ' s Fund Information & Knowledge Service Tags: Patient safety Quality of care and clinical outcomes Source Type: blogs
Happy New Year – 2020
Well, here we are. Into 2020. And it is definitely a new year with all kinds of things going on around the world that are unnerving and definitely the stuff of “interesting things” found in that Chinese curse people quote from time to time. And I have a lot to write about today.
I can say that at least, right now, there are two things that are grabbing attention world-wide that may or may not – who knows – continue to grab attention in the immediate future. The first is the wildfires in Australia. If you look at a map of the Australian continent, it seems the whole country is on fire. I have a ch...
Source: Qui Interrogat - January 6, 2020 Category: Nursing Authors: Walt Trachim Tags: Uncategorized Source Type: blogs
The Long Emergency: Roast Koala
Australia is now experiencing the hottest weather ever recorded there. For those of you who don ' t grok Celsius, the average temperature across the entire continent was about 105 degrees Fahrenheit. And it ' s predicted to get even hotter. Temperatures on Wednesday in some places reached 119 degrees. (It ' s Wednesday here as I write but still the wee hours of Thursday there.) As you may already know, this baking heat is accompanied by a lengthy drought and raging wildfires. Sydney is enveloped in smoke while some 70 fires are burning in Queensland forcing evacuations.The worst fire season has been in New South Wales...
Source: Stayin' Alive - December 18, 2019 Category: American Health Source Type: blogs
What's new in midwifery - 11th December 2019
Discussion relating to one of these at least in the Guardian,Record number of over-45s giving birth in England, NICESurveillance report NICE guideline (NG126)Ectopic pregnancy and miscarriage: diagnosis and initial managementThis guideline will be updated:read this page to find out why.In the newsSinging the blues: how music can help ease postnatal depressionMelodies for Mums, an iniative that is part of a study being funded by the Wellcome.Maternity care failings in Shropshire (BMJ)OpinionBMJ editorialScreening for cytomegalovirus in pregnancy (Source: Browsing)
Source: Browsing - December 11, 2019 Category: Databases & Libraries Tags: midwifery Source Type: blogs
OrbitaASSIST AI-Powered Bedside Virtual Assistant: Interview with Nick White, Orbita Executive VP of Patient Care
Boston-headquartered Orbita, a healthcare innovation company offering conversational AI platform and virtual health assistant solutions, has released the OrbitaASSIST, a voice-powered, AI-driven bedside virtual assistant. Patients use a smart speaker to make requests, and the system intelligently triages and sends requests to various care team members.
OrbitaASSIST can be used as a replacement for or adjunct to existing nurse call systems. Patients often find it frustrating to use these traditional systems to communicate with care staff who are nearly always busy and need to focus on multiple priorities. The solution p...
Source: Medgadget - December 10, 2019 Category: Medical Devices Authors: Conn Hastings Tags: Exclusive Informatics Source Type: blogs
What's new in midwifery - 6th December 2019
Yesterday ' s post was the news and media from the last week and a bit.Here is the research, statistics and reports.ResearchPlanned earlier delivery for late pre-eclampsia may be better for mothers (NIHR Signals)Review of a study in the LancetInduction recommended for women still pregnant at 41 weeks (Guardian)Report of research from the SWEPIS study, published in theBMJ, .Health service programmesICON (Babies cry, you can cope) - programme launched in North Yorkshire to help parents manage normal infant crying and prevent abusive head injuries caused by shakingReportsBetter for women report (RCOG): improving the health an...
Source: Browsing - December 6, 2019 Category: Databases & Libraries Tags: midwifery Source Type: blogs
The Psychological Impacts Of Poverty, Digested
This study, of 4,758 11-year-olds living in urban areas of England, found that children who lived in greener neighbourhoods performed better on tests of spatial working memory (an effect that held for both deprived and non-deprived neighbourhoods). “Our findings suggest a positive role of greenspace in cognitive functioning,” commented researcher Eirini Flouri at University College London. What might this role be? Perhaps because it’s restful for the brain, and restores the ability to concentrate.
Interventions that focus on the families of kids growing up in poverty should also help. The team that observed t...
Source: BPS RESEARCH DIGEST - December 3, 2019 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: BPS Research Digest Tags: Feature Mental health Money Source Type: blogs
What's new in midwifery - 6th November 2019
Some recent things....NHS ImprovementMaternity and Neonatal Safety Improvement ProgrammeThe programme aims to improve the safety and outcomes of maternal and neonatal care, and contribute to the national ambition, set out in Better Births of reducing the rates of maternal and neonatal deaths, stillbirths, and brain injuries that occur during or soon after birth by 50% by 2025StatisticsCompendium: infant mortality (NHS Digital)Maternity statistics - monthly statistics, July 2019 (NHS Digital)Maternity statistics, England, 2018-19 (NHS Digital)NewsRevealed: 47 pregnant women in prisons in England and Wales (Guardian)We are t...
Source: Browsing - November 6, 2019 Category: Databases & Libraries Tags: midwifery Source Type: blogs
Government response to ACMD report'Ageing cohort of drug users '
Department of Health and Social Care -This document sets out the government ’s response to the recommendations made in the Advisory Council on the Misuse of Drugs (ACMD) reportAgeing cohort of drug users. The Department of Health and Social Care sought contributions from the Scottish, Welsh and Northern Irish administrations and coordinated responses to the report. Officials from each of the four nations have reviewed the council ’s advice and set out work underway to address the recommendations.ReportLetterDepartment of Health - publications (Source: Health Management Specialist Library)
Source: Health Management Specialist Library - October 3, 2019 Category: UK Health Authors: The King ' s Fund Information & Knowledge Service Tags: Local authorities, public health and health inequalities Source Type: blogs
Life after loss: an economic evaluation of specialist counselling after baby loss
This report is an economic evaluation of the baby loss charity Petals, which provides counselling to women who have experienced the death of a baby and their partners. The evaluation calculates that national provision of counselling to 4,822 mothers would cost £3.17m per annum, which would create a national safety-net of support to help parents at this immensely difficult time. No such service currently operates across England and Wales. The report highlights that specialist baby loss counselling is inexpensive, effective and reduces government expenditu re.ReportCentre for Mental Health - press release (Source: Health Ma...
Source: Health Management Specialist Library - October 2, 2019 Category: UK Health Authors: The King ' s Fund Information & Knowledge Service Tags: Mental Health Source Type: blogs
Podcast: Policing Language in Mental Health Communities
In the first full episode of Not Crazy, we learn a little more about the new co-host, Jackie, and her history with chronic illness and depression. Gabe rants about person-first language and how nitpicking verbiage is distracting from more pressing matters in the lives of those living with mental illness. Overall, we decide that “crazy” is not a dirty word and there are other, more time-sensitive, things we should be focusing on that can benefit the mental health community.
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Gabe Howard is an award-winning writer and speaker who lives with bipolar disorder. He is the au...
Source: World of Psychology - September 30, 2019 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Not Crazy Podcast Tags: General Not Crazy Podcast Self-Help Stigma Source Type: blogs
Mastering Intensive Care 047 with Matt Morgan
Dr Andrew Davies Mastering Intensive Care 047 with Matt Morgan
Andrew Davies talks with Matt Morgan - Mixing science, history, emotion and humanity in telling Critical stories. Mastering Intensive Care Podcast (Source: Life in the Fast Lane)
Source: Life in the Fast Lane - September 25, 2019 Category: Emergency Medicine Authors: Dr Andrew Davies Tags: Mastering Intensive Care Matt Morgan Wales Welsh Source Type: blogs
The National Health Service (NHS) in the UK considers adding a 5 ‑minute cognitive test to its annual health check-up
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Using AI assessment to tackle dementia in ultra-early stages (Digital Health):
“Dementia and Alzheimer’s disease continue to increase and remain the leading cause of death in England and Wales, accounting for 12.8% of all deaths registered in 2018 … While there is no cure available, catching diseases like Alzheimer’s early on can help those living with the condition to slow its progression.
Cognetivity Neurosciences, a Cambridge University spin-out based in London, has developed an artificial-intelligence (AI) powered test designed to detect cognitive decline in its ultra-early stages – potentially det...
Source: SharpBrains - September 18, 2019 Category: Neuroscience Authors: SharpBrains Tags: Cognitive Neuroscience Health & Wellness Technology Alzheimer’s Disease artificial intelligence Cambridge University Cognetivity Neurosciences cognitive decline dementia diagnosis health check-up iPad NHS Source Type: blogs
