State of Caring 2022: A snapshot of unpaid care in the UK The State of Caring Survey is the UK’s most comprehensive research into the lives and experience of carers.
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Tuesday, 8 November 2022
State of Caring 2022: A snapshot of unpaid care in the UK
Hidden in plain sight: A national plan of action to support vulnerable teenagers to succeed and to protect them from adversity, exploitation and harm'.
Hidden in plain sight: A national plan of action to support vulnerable teenagers to succeed and to protect them from adversity, exploitation and harm'. The final report from the Commission on Young Lives proposes a new 'Sure Start Plus for Teenagers' network of intervention and support as the centrepiece of a wide range of recommendations to government, the police, schools, and others to tackle the deep-rooted problems in the children's social care, education, family support, children's mental health, and criminal justice systems. Commission on Young Lives
Health and justice framework for integration 2022-2025: improving lives – reducing inequality
Health and justice framework for integration 2022-2025: improving lives – reducing inequality This framework sets out the direction of travel and national priorities which will inform the development of integrated health and justice services across England. It has been informed by the views and experiences of people with lived experience, partner organisations, providers and our own team. NHS England
NHS offers life-changing bionic arms to all amputees
NHS offers life-changing bionic arms to all amputees Dozens of amputees will be able to access life-changing bionic arms which can mimic real hand movements, the NHS announced.
The newly available bionic arms – controlled by electrical brain signals – have multi-grip capabilities, enabling a greater range of movements to make day-to-day tasks easier.
The NHS will make the technology available to every patient across England who needs it, following two independent reviews into their use and the successful rollout for veterans. NHS England
NHS reaches deal for life-saving breast-cancer drug
NHS reaches deal for life-saving breast-cancer drug NHS England has struck a commercial deal to offer a potentially life-saving drug to more patients with a very aggressive type of breast cancer.
Triple-negative tumours account for 15% of all breast-cancer cases but are harder to treat - often with poorer outcomes.
The drug, pembrolizumab, given alongside chemotherapy, can help shrink these cancers and stop them spreading. BBC News
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University of Nottingham research could help predict diseases in men
University of Nottingham research could help predict diseases in men Researchers have discovered a hormone which could help predict whether men will develop certain diseases in later life.
Experts at the University of Nottingham have been studying INSL3 which develops in men during puberty.
They believe it offers an early marker for predicting of age-linked disease, giving medics the chance to prevent illness. BBC News
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- The Leydig cell biomarker INSL3 as a predictor of age-related morbidity: Findings from the EMAS cohort (open access) Frontiers in Endocrinology
- Hormone discovery could predict long term health of men University of Nottingham
Mental health patients held ‘unlawfully’ in A&Es across the country, experts warn
Mental health patients held ‘unlawfully’ in A&Es across the country, experts warn Mental health patients are being held “unlawfully” in A&Es across the country as long waits for care and beds force staff into “fudging” the law, The Independent has been told.
The University Hospital of North Midland Trust has been sanctioned by the Care Quality Commission (CQC) for holding mental health patients without any legal authority.
However, experts have said the problem is widespread and occurs across every emergency department in the country with some patients waiting “days” and even “weeks” in A&E.
No10 is given FINAL chance to avoid devastating nurses strike
No10 is given FINAL chance to avoid devastating nurses strike The largest NHS strikes in Britain's history can be avoided if ministers agree to an inflation-busting pay rise, the UK's nursing union has said, as another NHS union joins the fray.
The ultimatum from The Royal College of Nursing (RCN) comes as the union is due to publish the results of its ballot on strike action later this week, with a large majority of nurses already understood to have voted in favour.
More strike pain could also be heading No10's way, with the union Unite announcing today it will be asking 100,000 of its NHS members if they are willing to walk off the job over pay. The Daily Mail
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- Fears that a MILLION NHS staff could go on strike this winter in a major series of walkouts over pay The Daily Mail
- Striking NHS nurses to give 'Christmas level of service': Cancer treatment and routine surgery set to be cancelled as thousands walk out this winter The Daily Mail
- Nursing union tells agency workers NOT to cover unprecedented NHS strikes The Daily Mail
- Nurses’ strike will test the public’s patience The Daily Telegraph
- Nurses will be striking for their pay, your health – and the future of the NHS | Polly Toynbee The Guardian
- Thousands of operations likely to be cancelled during NHS strikes, trusts chiefs warn The Independent
- Nurses’ strike: ‘We have no choice but to do this for our patients’, says nurse supporting walkout iNews
- RCN industrial action ballot: ‘Strong support’ with results expected this week Nursing in Practice
Hope for hundreds of thousands with 'untreatable' high blood pressure
Hope for hundreds of thousands with 'untreatable' high blood pressure Hundreds of thousands of people with untreatable high blood pressure could benefit from a new drug, a trial suggests.
High blood pressure, or hypertension, is one of the world's most common conditions and affects roughly a third of British and half of American adults.
In recent years it has become clear that between five and 10 per cent of these people do not respond to traditional blood pressure medication, and so their condition does not improve. The Daily Mail
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- Phase 2 Trial of Baxdrostat for Treatment-Resistant Hypertension (abstract) New England Journal of Medicine
- ‘Exciting’ development in tackling untreatable high blood pressure The Independent
Monday, 7 November 2022
Investing in Patient Safety and Outcomes Health and care nursing workforce and supply in England
Investing in Patient Safety and Outcomes: Health and care nursing workforce and supply in England A new report by the RCN shows how failure by successive UK governments to tackle the nursing workforce crisis in England has created “the greatest risk to publicly funded health and care services since their creation”.
The report, which presents solutions for sustainable nursing recruitment and retention, outlines how past, current and impending government policies are causing severe nursing workforce shortages, with demand for staff vastly exceeding supply.
There are record nursing vacancies in the NHS in England and the latest data shows there will be 2,000 fewer nursing students graduating from education in 2025 than there are in 2024. Royal College of Nursing
Why have ambulance waiting times been getting worse?
Why have ambulance waiting times been getting worse? In England, people are waiting longer than ever for ambulances to arrive. For the most critical calls, with a target response time of 7 minutes, patients in 2021/22 waited 8 and a half minutes on average – almost a fifth longer than they would have waited in 2018/19. For less urgent cases that still require an ambulance response, waits have more than doubled to an average of 3 hours. The Health Foundation
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- Increasing handover delays contributing to growing ambulance waiting times The Health Foundation
Joining the dots for population health
Joining the dots for population health Population health is one of the top priorities for integrated care systems, the NHS, us at The King’s Fund, at a global level and increasingly for anyone in health and care who recognises that many of the current challenges facing the health and care system in England are often linked to the lack of earlier and more concerted focus on population health. The King's Fund
Health and Care Act 2022: combined impact assessments
Health and Care Act 2022: combined impact assessments The Health and Care Act received Royal Assent on 28 April 2022. This primary legislation aims to build on the NHS’s own proposals for reform to make the health and care system less bureaucratic, more accountable and more integrated in the wake of coronavirus. These documents assess the impact of the legislation. Department of Health and Social Care
Nurses set to hold first UK-wide strike
Nurses set to hold first UK-wide strike The biggest ever strike by nurses looks set to go ahead.
The Royal College of Nursing is due to unveil the results of its ballot, which ended last week, in the next few days.
The final results are being counted but RCN sources say a large majority of nurses have voted in favour of action in a dispute over pay.
The RCN had recommended to its 300,000 members that they walk out. If strikes take place, they would affect non-urgent but not emergency care. BBC News
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- Thousands of nurses WILL strike before Christmas after 100-year-old union's members voted in favour of first EVER mass NHS walk-out The Daily Mail
- Plans in place to deal with strike action by UK’s nurses, government says The Guardian
- Nurses across UK vote to strike in first ever national action The Guardian
- Nurses vote to strike in first ever national action as cost of living bites The Independent
- Biggest-ever NHS nurses’ strike ‘would hit A&E patients’ and worsen Covid backlog iNews
- What happens if nurses vote for strike action - and how many will take part? ITV News
- Nurses set to strike in first ever national action - as patients braced for disruption Sky News
Child speech delays increase due to lockdowns
Child speech delays increase due to lockdowns The number of five and six year olds who need speech and language support at school has risen by 10% in England over the past year, BBC analysis shows.
The increase, which is substantially greater than previous years, is partly due to lockdown limiting social interactions, experts say.
The Royal College of Speech and Language Therapists says the profession is struggling to cope with the demand. BBC News
NHS to prescribe cognitive behavioural therapy apps to children with anxiety
NHS to prescribe cognitive behavioural therapy apps to children with anxiety Children as young as five who suffer from anxiety are to be prescribed cognitive behavioural therapy apps on the NHS via mobile phones, tablets and computers.
The National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (Nice), the health regulator, has conditionally recommended digital CBT for use in the health service to help children and young people with symptoms of mild to moderate anxiety. The Guardian
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- NICE conditionally recommends digital cognitive behaviour therapies for use in the NHS to help children and young people with symptoms of mild to moderate anxiety National Institute for Health and Care Excellence
New hope for sickle cell patients as UK trial of lab grown red blood cells begins
New hope for sickle cell patients as UK trial of lab grown red blood cells begins Laboratory grown red blood cells have been transfused into volunteers in a world first clinical trial that could help revolutionise treatments for patients with sickle cell disease and thalassemia.
The manufactured blood cells were grown from stem cells from donors, which in future could allow donor blood to be expanded into much larger volumes for transfusion. The trial is studying the lifespan of the lab grown cells compared with infusions of standard red blood cells from the same donor. The Guardian
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- RESTORE: Recovery and survival of stem cell originated red cells NHS Blood and Transplant
- First ever clinical trial of laboratory grown red blood cells being transfused into another person underway University of Bristol
- Lab-grown blood given to people in world-first clinical trial BBC News
- Lab-grown blood used for human transfusion in world first The Independent
Getting a flu vaccine lowers your risk of a STROKE years later, study shows
Getting a flu vaccine lowers your risk of a STROKE years later, study shows Getting a flu shot might be more important than ever — a study indicates it also lowers the risk of a stroke years later.
Researchers say health officials should push harder for everyone to get routine influenza vaccines rather than just the most vulnerable.
The study analyzed the health records of more than 4million adults in Alberta, Canada, over a 10-year period. The Daily Mail
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- Association between influenza vaccination and risk of stroke in Alberta, Canada: a population-based study (open access) The Lancet Public Health
- NHS delivers 13 million flu jabs NHS England
Fewer than HALF of those eligible for Covid booster have come forward for vaccine, analysis shows
Fewer than HALF of those eligible for Covid booster have come forward for vaccine, analysis shows Millions of Britons eligible for the autumn Covid booster vaccine have yet to come forward, according to official figures.
Only 12.2million over-50s, health and care workers and immunocompromised people in England had a top-up jab by October 30. The Daily Mail
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Friday, 4 November 2022
'Disgusted' man criticises Northampton General Hospital after mother, 76, waits two hours in 'freezing' cold outside A&E
'Disgusted' man criticises Northampton General Hospital after mother, 76, waits two hours in 'freezing' cold outside A&E A man has criticised Northampton General Hospital (NGH) after his 76-year-old mother was made to wait outside A&E in the “freezing” cold for two hours. Northampton Chronicle and Echo
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