Tuesday 23 October 2012

Resources available for Self Care Week 2012

Resources available for Self Care Week 2012:
Resources are now available for Self Care Week 2012, to help NHS, social care and voluntary sector organisations run local initiatives.

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This year, Self Care Week will run from 12-18 November. Self Care Week is an annual national awareness week that focuses on embedding support for self care across communities, families and generations.
This year’s theme is ‘Self Care for Life – growing older healthily’, which builds on the European Active and Healthy Ageing initiative on improving the health knowledge of patients and the public as they get older. For Self Care Week 2012, we are extending this approach through all the life stages – from pre-birth to older years – to ensure healthy and happy living at every age.
Once again, Self Care Week is being run in partnership with the Self Care Forum, which is the leading UK organisation committed to embedding self care into everyday life and whose members include GPs, nurses, pharmacists and NHS managers, as well as the Department of Health.
A communications pack and other resources can be downloaded from the Self Care Week 2012 Resources page on the Self Care Forum’s website. Department of Health

VIDEO: 'Dramatic rise' in self harm cases

VIDEO: 'Dramatic rise' in self harm cases: As many as one in 12 young people in the UK carry out self-harm, according to a study by a mental health charity. BBC News

GP leaders fear IT funding cuts

GP leaders fear IT funding cuts: Clinical commissioning groups (CCGs) must be given the funding they need to maintain general practice IT, the GPC has warned. GP Online

National Bowel Cancer Audit 2011

National Bowel Cancer Audit 2011: This national audit has found that about a quarter of bowel cancer patients
in England are only diagnosed with the disease after an emergency admission to hospital. This equates to about 8,000 out of 31,000 patients admitted in a 12 month period, whose records were analysed by the National Bowel Cancer Audit and linked for the first time with hospital data (Hospital Episode Statistics). 

Children throat infections rising

Children throat infections rising:
Researchers have highlighted a dramatic rise in the number of children admitted to hospitals with throat infections over the last decade.
The team from Imperial College London, writing in the Archives of Disease in Childhood, found a 76% increase though most children were released home after a short stay.
And rather than an increase in the severity of infections, they suggest it is more to do with press... Healthcare Today

NHS hearing services 'being cut' - BBC News

NHS hearing services 'being cut' - BBC News:

BBC News
NHS hearing services 'being cut'
BBC News
In particular, the study found evidence of rises in waiting times and reductions in follow-up care. The report is the latest in a growing number to have suggested front-line care is being rationed as the health service struggles with finances. The NHS ...

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Death pathway 'based on guesswork'

Death pathway 'based on guesswork': The controversial "death pathway" has come under renewed attack from doctors, lawyers and campaigners who said staff using it had to guess when patients were nearing the end of life. The Daily Telegraph

Undercover investigation exposes EU licencing for faulty medical implants

Undercover investigation exposes EU licencing for faulty medical implants: A joint undercover investigation with the the Daily Telegraph and British Medical Journal has exposed loopholes in the EU system which allows potentially dangerous medical implants to be sold in the UK.

Controversial decision on heart surgery units halted amid threats of legal action and protests

Controversial decision on heart surgery units halted amid threats of legal action and protests: A controversial decision to close three children's heart surgery units in England has been halted by the Government amid threats of legal action and growing protests from MPs and families. The Independent