Chart of the week: When being 64 for the most deprived feels like 90 for the better off The 2021 Census asked everyone in the UK to report their general health from very bad to very good. As Sophie Julian and Sally Gainsbury show, there were some very revealing findings, with people from the most deprived areas of the country experiencing significantly poorer health than those in better off areas. Nuffield Trust
Friday 24 March 2023
Educator workforce strategy
Educator workforce strategy This strategy aims to ensure that the NHS has a sustainable supply of educators to support the development of the health care workforce. It sets out seven priorities that will lead to sufficient capacity and quality of educators to allow the growth in healthcare workforce that is needed to deliver care, now and in the future. It describes concerns in the health care education sector and from service providers about the capacity of educators to meet the current and future demands for education and training. Health Education England
Guidance: Code of practice for the international recruitment of health and social care personnel
Guidance: Code of practice for the international recruitment of health and social care personnel Sets out the principles and best practice benchmarks health and social care employers and recruitment agencies must follow to ensure effective, ethical international recruitment. Department of Health and Social Care
Four-day junior doctor strike set for April
Four-day junior doctor strike set for April Junior doctors are to stage a four-day walkout in April in their fight to get a 35% pay rise in England.
Members of the British Medical Association (BMA) will take strike action from 11 April to 15 April.
It comes after BMA leaders met Health Secretary Steve Barclay on Wednesday. BBC News
See also:
- BMA announces dates for new 96-hour walkout by junior doctors in England after Government failure to make any credible offer in talks BMA
- ‘This is not true’: BMA responds to Government claim over 35% precondition on junior doctor pay talks BMA
- Junior Doctors dispute: Key information Hospital Consultants and Specialists Association
- NHS Confederation responds to BMA's new strike dates NHS Confederation
- NHS Providers responds to 96-hour junior doctors’ strike announcement NHS Providers
- Time is running out to resolve the NHS workforce crisis The BMJ
- Junior doctors will strike for FOUR consecutive days in April The Daily Mail
- Junior doctors’ union announces 96-hour walkout after pay talks break down The Daily Telegraph
- BMA 'extremely sorry' to patients disrupted by junior doctors Evening Standard
- Junior doctors in England to strike for four days in April The Guardian
- Junior doctors to strike for four days as health secretary ‘won’t negotiate’ on 35% pay demand The Independent
- Junior doctors will strike for 96 hours from 11 April as NHS pay dispute continues iNews
- Warning a quarter of a million hospital appointments could be postponed after junior doctors announce four-day strike Sky News
Long Covid: University of East Anglia study finds women more likely affected
Long Covid: University of East Anglia study finds women more likely affected Women are more likely to suffer from long Covid but being vaccinated almost halves the risk of developing the condition, a University of East Anglia study has found. But what does long Covid mean for those living with the illness? BBC News
See also:
- Risk Factors Associated With Post−COVID-19 Condition: A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis (open access) JAMA Network
- Covid-like virus is found lurking in UK bats The Daily Mail
- More than a million Covid patients treated in England, says NHS chief Evening Standard
- Three years on: are we any closer to understanding long Covid? (podcast) The Guardian
- Covid struck and Britain locked down. Here’s what we learned from that – and what we must do next time The Guardian
- Covid: Worst area for UK revealed as one in 40 Britons infected The Independent
- Covid: 10 most common symptoms to watch out for as UK cases rise The Independent
- Covid-19 vaccines do not affect women’s periods, study finds The Independent
- A retrospective case-control study on menstrual cycle changes following COVID-19 vaccination and disease (open access) iScience
Police investigating ‘sexual assault’ at scandal-hit children’s hospital as watchdog threatens closure
Police investigating ‘sexual assault’ at scandal-hit children’s hospital as watchdog threatens closure Police are investigating fresh allegations of sexual assault against a child patient by a care worker at a scandal-hit private mental health hospital group.
It is the second time reports have been made about a former Huntercombe Group hospital after two care workers were quizzed over the alleged rape of a child at its Taplow Manor Hospital in Maidenhead last year. The Independent
Ringfence 10% of UK health spending for preventive measures, report urges
Ringfence 10% of UK health spending for preventive measures, report urges Governments should set aside 10% of health spending for preventive and public measures such as cycle lanes and anti-obesity strategies, a thinktank has said, warning that “political short-termism” over health is making the UK increasingly ill and unequal.
The report by the Tony Blair Institute argues that a centralised NHS model “almost entirely focused on treating sickness” rather than on wider objectives is not only harming people’s health but hampering the economy, with more than 2.5 million people out of the labour market because of long-term ailments. The Guardian
See also:
- Fit for the Future: How a Healthy Population Will Unlock a Stronger Britain Tony Blair Institute for Global Change
‘There is a level of complacency’: trial exposes UK’s vulnerability to organ harvesting
‘There is a level of complacency’: trial exposes UK’s vulnerability to organ harvesting The UK is supposed to have one of the best systems in the world for preventing vulnerable people being exploited for their organs. How then did one of its biggest hospitals become embroiled in the macabre trade of kidney harvesting?
The UK’s first trial organ trafficking trial has exposed alarming vulnerabilities to a illegal trade that makes up 10% of transplants worldwide. The case has highlighted how poverty can tempt some people to sell their body parts to those willing to exploit an acute global shortage of organs for donation. The Guardian
The UK’s first trial organ trafficking trial has exposed alarming vulnerabilities to a illegal trade that makes up 10% of transplants worldwide. The case has highlighted how poverty can tempt some people to sell their body parts to those willing to exploit an acute global shortage of organs for donation. The Guardian
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Map lays bare England's child dental crisis and shows areas where tooth decay more likely
Map lays bare England's child dental crisis and shows areas where tooth decay more likely Almost two thirds of children have rotten teeth in parts of the country, official data revealed today.
Statistics laying bare England's dental crisis showed three in 10 children aged five across the country have enamel or tooth decay. The Daily Mail
See also:
- Oral health survey of 5 year old children 2022 Office for Health Improvement and Disparities
- Oral health Office for Health Improvement and Disparities
- Three-year wait for Essex girl, 8, to have tooth removed BBC News
Good AND bad news for coffee lovers as study shows they walk more but sleep less
Good AND bad news for coffee lovers as study shows they walk more but sleep less Coffee boosts the number of calories people burn during the day but it robs them of vital sleep at night, according to a new study.
Results suggested people who drink coffee regularly walk 1,000 more steps than non-drinkers each day but lose out on around 30 minutes of sleep at night. The Daily Mail
See also:
- Acute Effects of Coffee Consumption on Health among Ambulatory Adults (abstract) New England Journal of Medicine
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