You Need Some Smarter Clothing
BY KIM BELLARD
Much as I’d love to write about Instagram’s feud with the Kardashians over changes to the Instagram feed, and how that and proposed changes to Facebook’s feed reflect Meta’s efforts to combat TikTok’s growing influence, I’ve already given healthcare plenty of warnings about TikTok. Instead, I’ll write about something else that the Kardashians care about: fashion.
Well, not fashion per se, but clothing. If the old, sexist statement was “clothes make the man,” then soon we may be saying “clothes make your health.”
The Washington Post got my attention when it report...
Source: The Health Care Blog - August 3, 2022 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Ryan Bose-Roy Tags: Uncategorized Source Type: blogs
We Need To Make Sure We Are Optimising Our Approach And Use Of Telehealth Now The Pandemic May Be Settling!
This appeared last week: 18 July 2022Is telehealth the great panacea for rural health?Simon Judkins, Belinda Hibble& Stephen GourleyIssue 27 / 18 July 2022Instead of a telehealth explosion, where “we will get back in touch with you”, we need to refocus on a rural workforce explosion, where we can have clinicians and patients actually within hand’s reach of each otherOUT of a crisis comes opportunity, and with the effects of the global COVID-19 pandemic marching on, opportunities to transform many aspects of our health care systems have flourished.One of the areas that has gained much interest is the potentia...
Source: Australian Health Information Technology - July 29, 2022 Category: Information Technology Authors: Dr David G More MB PhD Source Type: blogs
National Audit of Care at the End of Life: mental health spotlight audit summary report, England and Wales (2021/22)
This report finds that whilst thorough scrutiny of all deaths occurring in mental health services is demonstrated to be well embedded, policies and guidelines around end of life care delivery are not as well developed. It concludes that whilst working with dying patients is less common on mental health inpatient wards, there is an opportunity for mental health providers to give greater support to staff and give the appropriate training needed to deliver end of life care if necessary.ReportNHS Benchmarking Network - news (Source: Health Management Specialist Library)
Source: Health Management Specialist Library - July 22, 2022 Category: UK Health Authors: The King ' s Fund Library Tags: Mental health Patient involvement, experience and feedback Quality of care and clinical outcomes Source Type: blogs
The Macro View – Health, Economics, and Politics and the Big Picture. What I Am Watching Here And Abroad.
The objective most consistent with recent operations is to conquer Luhansk, Donetsk, and Kherson, with a view to their eventual annexation and Russification. But not only are they some way from achieving that (w ith much of Donetsk still in Ukrainian hands and the Russia position in Kherson highly contested) it would also require an explicit Ukrainian surrender for it to serve as the basis for a declaration of victory. That will not be forthcoming.-----https://www.afr.com/world/europe/how-britain-giggled-its-way-into-crisis-20220710-p5b0giHow Britain giggled its way into crisisBoris Johnson has exposed the costs of Britain...
Source: Australian Health Information Technology - July 21, 2022 Category: Information Technology Authors: Dr David G More MB PhD Source Type: blogs
NHS Pay Review Body thirty-fifth report: 2022
This report sets out the NHSPRB ’s analysis of evidence provided by relevant organisations and makes observations on the pay of NHS staff paid under Agenda for Change for 2022 to 2023. The NHSPRB provides independent advice on the pay of NHS staff to the Prime Minister, Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, First Minist er of Wales and Minister for Health of Northern Ireland.ReportNHSPRB - publications (Source: Health Management Specialist Library)
Source: Health Management Specialist Library - July 20, 2022 Category: UK Health Authors: The King ' s Fund Library Tags: Workforce and employment Source Type: blogs
Review Body on Doctors ’ and Dentists’ Remuneration: fiftieth report 2022
This report sets out the DDRB ’s analysis of evidence given by relevant organisations and makes recommendations for doctors’ and dentists’ pay and associated issues in England, Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland. In this report the DDRB provides independent advice on the pay of doctors and dentists in the NHS to the Prim e Minister and Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, First Minister of Scotland, First Minister of Wales and First Minister of Northern Ireland.ReportDDRB - publications (Source: Health Management Specialist Library)
Source: Health Management Specialist Library - July 20, 2022 Category: UK Health Authors: The King ' s Fund Library Tags: Workforce and employment Source Type: blogs
Improving children and young people ’s mental health services: local data insights from England, Scotland and Wales
Health Foundation - This briefing presents analysis from the Health Foundation ’s Networked Data Lab (NDL) about children and young people’s mental health. The analysis from local teams across England, Scotland and Wales has highlighted three key areas for urgent investigation, to help ensure children and young people get the care they need. These are: rapid increases in m ental health prescribing and support provided by GPs; the prevalence of mental health problems among adolescent girls and young women; and stark socioeconomic inequalities across the UK.BriefingMore detail (Source: Health Management Specialist Library)
Source: Health Management Specialist Library - July 18, 2022 Category: UK Health Authors: The King ' s Fund Library Tags: Mental health Source Type: blogs
Weekly Australian Health IT Links – 18 July, 2022.
Here are a few I have come across the last week or so. Note: Each link is followed by a title and a few paragraphs. For the full article click on the link above title of the article. Note also that full access to some links may require site registration or subscription payment.General Comment-----Aged Care had a good run this week with lots of discussion on just how useful it could be and where the priorities lay. Some fools were wittering on about how helpful the #myHR can be in this setting!Telehealth went and came back!The James Webb Telescope humbled us all with images for an age!-----https://itwire.com/science-news/he...
Source: Australian Health Information Technology - July 18, 2022 Category: Information Technology Authors: Dr David G More MB PhD Source Type: blogs
The Macro View – Health, Economics, and Politics and the Big Picture. What I Am Watching Here And Abroad.
July 14, 2022 Edition-----The biggest news this week was the assassination of the ex-PM of Japan – Shinzo Abe – who was a good friend to OZ incidentally.In the US we have had a wind-up to a busy summit season – NATO etc – and the ongoing war in Ukraine which is becoming a deepening, protracted and horrible situation which it seems hard to resolve sadly.In the UK Boris is out but not gone and the battle for the succession is off and rolling.In OZ we have Albo back and we need to work out what to mitigate these various natural disasters and actually get on with it!!!! The response has been pathetic so far I reckon!--...
Source: Australian Health Information Technology - July 14, 2022 Category: Information Technology Authors: Dr David G More MB PhD Source Type: blogs
Local Purple Hairstreaks
I found a colony of White-letter Hairstreaks in the middle of Manor Farm Wood, Rampton. I don’t think I’ve heard of anyone mentioning this species in this woodland before. It’s a relatively young woodland. The butterflies were emerging from a tall blackthorn and coming fairly low to nectar on bramble and flitting back into the blackthorn. There are elms in the vicinity, the foodplant of this species’ larvae.
I was then surprised to see another hairstreak flying in the top of a willow tree on the Lode-side edge of the same woodland – Purple Hairstreak!
Male Purple Hairstreak about 15 metres a...
Source: David Bradley Sciencebase - Songs, Snaps, Science - July 6, 2022 Category: Science Authors: David Bradley Tags: Lepidoptera Source Type: blogs
People with no mind ’s eye have less vivid and detailed memories
By Matthew Warren
When we’re asked to imagine a scene or object, most of us are able to conjure up an image in our mind’s eye. But about 2-5% of the population can’t do this: they have a condition called aphantasia, and are unable to produce mental imagery at all.
Now a study published in Cognition has found that aphantasia can affect memory abilities too. The researchers report that aphantasics have less detailed and rich memories for events in their lives: a finding that not only reveals more about the condition, but also highlights the key role of mental imagery in memory generally.
Past work had sho...
Source: BPS RESEARCH DIGEST - July 1, 2022 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: BPS Research Digest Tags: Memory Perception Source Type: blogs
Cinahl strategy for finding studies from the UK
This is based on the Medline filter in Ayiku, L.et al.(2017) ‘The Medline UK filter: development and validation of a geographic search filter to retrieve research about the UK from OVID Medline’,Health Information and Libraries Journal 34(3), pp.200-216. That filter isdiscussed in another post.I have tested it to see if it results in error messages (it does not) but it is not yet validated. The Medline filter it is based on has been validated - see the article referenced above for details.This Cinahl filter does not specify fields, so searches all fields. In line S4, gb with no punctuation and g.b. wi...
Source: Browsing - June 23, 2022 Category: Databases & Libraries Tags: CINAHL literature searching Source Type: blogs
Paul Krugman and the “Ersatz” Theory of Private Currencies
George SelginAlthough I ' ve devoted many essays here to exploding myths about historical private currencies, there ' s one I ' ve yet to directly challenge. That ' s the belief that such currencies only thrive in the absence of official alternatives. Otherwise, the argument goes, people would drop private currencies like so many hot rocks. Since this opinion assumes that private currencies are inevitably inferior to official ones, I hereby christen it the " ersatz " theory of private currency. Note that " currency " means circulating or (in today ' s digital context)peer-to-peer exchange media: nobody denies that other so...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - June 9, 2022 Category: American Health Authors: George Selgin Source Type: blogs
Professional guidance: expanding prescribing scope of practice
Royal Pharmaceutical Society -This guidance has been commissioned by Welsh Government, for the benefit of all prescribers across the UK. Based on collaboration with multi-professional stakeholders, the document is a guidance tool for prescribers wanting to expand their prescribing scope of practice. It provides a structure to support prescribers to identify their developmental needs, highlights ways in which these needs can be met, and offers guidance on how to document the process and outcome. A number of case studies across a range of professions and settings are provided to illustrate the process.GuidanceRoyal Pharmaceu...
Source: Health Management Specialist Library - June 9, 2022 Category: UK Health Authors: The King ' s Fund Library Tags: Primary and community care Source Type: blogs
Advance Care Directive Prevalence Among Older Australians and Associations with Person-level Predictors and Quality Indicators
Kim Buck (Independent), Linda Nolte (Austin Health), Marcus Sellars (Independent), Craig Sinclair (University of New South Wales), Ben White (Queensland University of Technology), Helana Kelly, Ashley Macleod (Austin Health), Karen Detering (Austin Health), Advance Care Directive Prevalence Among Older Australians... (Source: HealthLawProf Blog)
Source: HealthLawProf Blog - May 28, 2022 Category: Medical Law Authors: Katharine Van Tassel Source Type: blogs
