Questions invited for health group's annual general meeting

Questions invited for health group's annual general meeting Anyone interested in the planning of the local health service can watch the live-stream of an annual general meeting being held by a public health body this week.

NHS Corby Clinical Commissioning Group (CCG) and NHS Nene Clinical Commissioning Group are holding their annual general meeting on Thursday, September 5 at Kettering Conference Centre, with members of the public invited to attend in person or watch it online. Northamptonshire Telegraph

Joint letter to Members of Parliament on no deal Brexit

Joint letter to Members of Parliament on no deal Brexit As major decisions about Brexit are taken, we have written to MPs with the King’s Fund and Health Foundation to lay out the impact of leaving without a deal for health and social care. Nuffield Trust

Diagnosis of late-stage prostate cancer reaches all-time high

Diagnosis of late-stage prostate cancer reaches all-time high As the latest figures show that 42.5% of diagnoses of prostate cancer are made in the late stages (stages iii or iv), men’s cancer charity Orchid is calling for men and healthcare professionals to FACE up to the disease.

The latest figures follow a 5-year trend and are coupled with statistics from a survey, commissioned by Orchid, which are being released for Male Cancer Awareness Week (2nd – 8th September) and highlight that awareness of prostate cancer risk factors amongst GPs is worryingly low, particularly in relation to ethnicity and family history

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• Thousands of men die from prostate cancer every year because of late diagnosis, charity warns The Daily Mail

Life-saving organ transplant opportunities being missed

Life-saving organ transplant opportunities being missed As many as 2,500 more organs could be made available for transplant in the UK if families spoke more openly about donating after death, says the NHS Blood and Transplant organisation.

It is hoped the more that people talk about their wishes, the easier it will be for relatives to agree to donations. BBC News

Could fitness trackers be causing people to develop eating disorders?

Could fitness trackers be causing people to develop eating disorders? Fitness and health tracking devices are becoming increasingly popular and a huge variety of wearable tech and apps now exist. Indeed, many smartphones and smart watches now come primed and ready to track our activity, sleep and nutrition.

Research has for a long time highlighted how monitoring behaviours can help to lead to positive changes in our lifestyles. Tracking fitness can be an effective way to help increase physical activity, and to achieve weight loss.

But monitoring physical activity and food intake may not be useful for everyone. The Independent

UK training record number of mental health first aiders

UK training record number of mental health first aiders Britain is training record numbers of workplace “mental health first aiders” to confront a sharp rise in people expressing mental distress, though evidence of success is mixed, according to a Guardian study.

Requests sent to every FTSE 100 company show that they alone have trained more than 10,000 staffers, while mid-tier and even tiny businesses are appointing first responders who can be approached confidentially by those with depression, anxiety, stress and other conditions. The Guardian

Teenager 'first in UK' to go deaf and blind due to junk food diet, report reveals

Teenager 'first in UK' to go deaf and blind due to junk food diet, report reveals A teenager is believed to be the first in the UK to go deaf and blind due to his junk food diet, a report has warned.

The 17-year-old lived off a daily portion of chips, crisps, white bread and processed meat for around a decade.

His poor diet, which resulted in a number of vitamin deficiencies, led to the boy developing a condition called nutritional optic neuropathy (NON). The Daily Telegraph

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• Blindness Caused by a Junk Food Diet (abstract) Annals of Internal Medicine
• Teenager 'blind' from living off crisps and chips BBC News
• Boy, 17, goes blind because of a vitamin deficiency caused by his diet of French fries and Pringles The Daily Mail
• Teenager left blind and deaf by decade-long diet of sausages, crisps and processed food The Independent

Nurses will be handed £1,000 each to spend on career development to stop them quitting

Nurses will be handed £1,000 each to spend on career development to stop them quitting Nurses are being given £1,000 each to spend on their career development to stop them quitting the NHS.

The Government is promising the funding in an additional £210million for frontline health staff in what could be seen as another pre-election bribe.

The money is specifically aimed at improving the training of nurses and midwives to enhance patient care and keep staff motivated. The Daily Mail

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• NHS Nurses to be given £1,000 each to spend on training in bid to stop staff leaving iNews