How is COVID-19 impacting people working in adult social care? Much of what's happening right now feels dauntingly like last March – we’re back in lockdown and being told to ‘protect the NHS’. We’re seeing similar media coverage of the impact of coronavirus (COVID-19) on the NHS and its hardworking staff but a great deal less attention on protecting adult social care services and staff. The Health Foundation
Breakthrough treatment for liver disease could save thousands every year by 2024 A breakthrough treatment for cirrhosis of the liver could be available within five years, saving thousands of lives a year, after a major clinical trial showed promising results.
The treatment involves swallowing a sachet containing tiny carbon beads that mop up toxins produced by bacteria in the gut. iNews
Year of unparalleled pressure leaves staff exhausted and on the brink Thousands of doctors have revealed the impact that working during the pandemic has had on their mental health and wellbeing, in a major BMA survey that exposes how a year of unparalleled pressure has pushed an understaffed and exhausted workforce to the brink.
New figures from the latest BMA tracker survey of doctors in England, Wales and Northern Ireland, show that almost 60 per cent (58%) of doctors are now suffering from some form of anxiety or depression, with 46 per cent saying their condition had worsened since the start of pandemic.
Guidance: Digital and data-driven health and care technology The guide contains a set of principles that set out what we expect from suppliers and users of data-driven technologies.
The aim is to make it easier for our suppliers to understand what we need from them, and to help health and care providers choose safe, effective, secure technology to improve the services they provide. Department of Health and Social Care
Analysis: More honesty about the crisis facing the NHS is urgently needed In the past two weeks, hospitals in London and across the southeast have had to declare major incidents, cancel operations and transfer patients to NHS trusts hundreds of miles away.
Some have struggled to deliver the volume of oxygen needed by patients sick with the coronavirus who are being cared for on makeshift wards set up in any spare room the hospitals can find. The Independent
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