Psychiatric podcast featuring Northampton mental health patients nominated for top nursing award

Psychiatric podcast featuring Northampton mental health patients nominated for top nursing award A podcast made in Northampton, which follows people with complex mental health issues such as psychosis and borderline personality disorder, has been nominated for a top nursing prize. Northampton Chronicle and Echo

Working in partnership with people and communities: statutory guidance

Working in partnership with people and communities: statutory guidance This guidance is for integrated care boards, NHS trusts, foundation trusts and NHS England. It supports effectively partnership working with people and communities to improve services and meet the public involvement legal duties. NHS England

Evidence on costs associated with NHS-funded nursing care in 2021 to 2022

Evidence on costs associated with NHS-funded nursing care in 2021 to 2022 This report sets out evidence of the cost to care homes of providing NHS-funded nursing care. This evidence was used to inform the setting of the 2022 to 2023 NHS-funded nursing care rate and retrospective increase on the 2021 to 2022 rate. Department of Health and Social Care

Watch out for heat exhaustion and heatstroke

Watch out for heat exhaustion and heatstroke During the hot weather, it can be easy to overheat.

While heat exhaustion is not usually serious, as long as you can cool yourself down, heatstroke is a medical emergency.

Here's what to look for and what to do. BBC News

Government to consider new Covid curbs if NHS backlog is threatened

Government to consider new Covid curbs if NHS backlog is threatened More than 13,000 NHS hospital beds are now taken up by positive Covid patients as a goverment minister says curbs may be introduced if the NHS backlog is threatened by Covid.

The latest NHS data shows beds occupied by Covid patients are up from 10,658 on the Monday prior. The Independent

See also:

• Covid hospital admissions on the brink of hitting 18-month high The Daily Mail
• So do we really need to start wearing masks all over again? The Daily Mail
• Moderna announces its Omicron-specific COVID-19 booster is more effective against BA.5 The Daily Mail
• Covid: hospitals fight sickness and backlogs as latest wave hits UK The Guardian
• Covid: Global warning over ‘exponential’ increase in cases with new subvariant BA.2.75 The Independent
• Global life expectancy falls after Covid pandemic The Independent
• Covid cases set to hit new record as experts call for return of free testing and school air filtration systems iNews
• NHS reintroduces GP practice face mask mandate in some regions Pulse
• COVID-19 restrictions could be reintroduced if rise in cases hits NHS backlog, minister warns Sky News

Doctors forced to work overnight shifts at last minute in NHS staffing crisis

Doctors forced to work overnight shifts at last minute in NHS staffing crisis Hospital doctors are being sent home from daytime shifts and told to come back and work overnight in the latest stark illustration of the NHS’s crippling staff shortage.

Medics are having to change their plans at the last minute because hospitals cannot find any others to plug gaps in the night shift medical rota and need to ensure they have enough doctors on duty. The Guardian

Female doctors launch campaign against harassment in UK healthcare

Female doctors launch campaign against harassment in UK healthcare General Medical Council urged to denounce sexist and misogynistic behaviour towards female colleagues

Female doctors have launched an online campaign that they say exposes shocking gender-based discrimination, harassment and sexual assault in healthcare.

Surviving in Scrubs is an issue for all healthcare workers, say the campaign’s founders, Becky Cox and Chelcie Jewitt, who are encouraging women to share stories of harassment and abuse to “push for change and to reach the people in power”. The Guardian

See also:

• The campaign Surviving in Scrubs
• NHS faces #MeToo moment as dozens of female doctors speak out against sexist culture The Daily Mail

Patients complain of confusing text results as researchers warn lack of clear communication is risky

Patients complain of confusing text results as researchers warn lack of clear communication is risky Patients find getting GP test results by text annoying, according to academics who say a lack of clear communication can be risky. 

Texts, often automated messages sent from GP practices, can be 'flippant', 'blunt' and 'confusing'. 

Dozens of GPs and patients were quizzed about how they received their results from routine blood tests. The Daily Mail

See also:

• ‘I guess I’ll wait to hear’— communication of blood test results in primary care a qualitative study (open access) British Journal of General Practice

Would you feel safe being treated on a 'virtual ward' in your home?

Would you feel safe being treated on a 'virtual ward' in your home? For anyone with a chronic condition, key challenges include the need for regular checks, unsuitable appointment times, costly parking and hours hanging about in hospital as clinics overrun — let alone the discomfort from their illness.

But technological advances mean many could have their health closely monitored in their own homes, rather than in hospital. The Daily Mail