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EventuntilWomen’s health is one of the most political issues of our time. Much like the rest of society, health systems have been created by men for men – and women have been left to fit around the edges. Despite incredible medical advances across the world for women, they remain infantilised and controlled by patriarchal health systems. PPP’s international report, chaired by Dame Clare Gerada and Dame Lesley Regan, will change this narrative. Join us to round off International Women’s Week on the 11th March 2022 to delve deeper into the report’s findings – as we challenge the status quo and put women back in control of their own bodies. This event has been kindly sponsored by Eli Lilly and Company and MSD. Topics covered during this event: Contraception Abortion Assisted Conception Cervical Cancer Prevention & Treatment Breast Cancer Prevention & Treatment The Inevitability of Womanhood: Menstruation & Menopause Taking a Gendered Lens to Data, Research and Policy Violence Against Women & Girls Agenda 2-2.45pm: Report launch A Women’s Health Agenda: Redressing the Balance is an expose of how we have got it so badly wrong when it comes to women’s health and what can be done to fix it. Globally, we are about to enter the fifth wave of feminism, and yet five movements of activism have not resulted in fundamental societal changes for women’s health. In this first session, report chairs Dame Clare Gerada and Dame Lesley Regan will present the report and dive deeper into its recommendations. 2.50-3.45pm: Why violence against women and girls is a public health issue Violence against women and girls (VAWG) has been a topic of much discussion both within the UK and internationally over the past year – and rightly so. However, VAWG is rarely seen as a public health issue. In a recent study of over 20,000 women, Victim Focus found that 99.7 per cent of this sample had been repeatedly subjected to some form of male violence within the UK. Furthermore, the World Health Organisation ascertains that almost a third of women aged 15-49 report they have been subjected to physical or sexual abuse by an intimate partner. Violence against women is preventable, and the health sector has a crucial role to play in providing healthcare to women subjected to violence. In this session, experts from various disciplines will discuss the health and political issues around VAWG and what needs to be done to address this systemic societal problem. Speakers to be announced. 3:50-4:25pm: Keynote Speaker Our keynote speaker will assess the current challenges facing women’s health within both the international and UK context. Covid-19 is not a gender-neutral disease, and its burdens continue to fall most heavily on women. Similarly the climate crisis is most keenly felt by women across the world and poses huge health challenges. Our keynote speaker will discuss how 2022 can build on past activism to change the trajectory facing women’s health. Keynote to be announced. 4.25-4.30pm: Chair’s Close 4.30-6.00pm: Networking Drinks Register for this event
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16th Annual Asbestos Awareness and Prevention Conference
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untilThe world’s leading experts in medicine, public health, trade unions, environmentalists, and more, virtually come together for an interdisciplinary, international learning opportunity about the latest asbestos policy, prevention efforts, and medical advancements in the United States and around the world. ADAO's conference is perfect for victims, scientists, health and safety professionals, the medical community, and health and environmental activists. This year ADAO introduce our Friday “Art, Advocacy, and Shared Stories” Film Festival. Register -
EventuntilIn September 2020 the UK Government announced the winners of its first Artificial Intelligence (AI) in Health and Care Awards and Kheiron's bid was successful. The funding that's been won will accelerate the roll out and rapid adoption of Mia (Mammography Intelligent Assessment) to address critical workforce challenges in NHS breast screening services in the UK. Kheiron is using the next 3 years to technically deploy and generate the evidence that our AI tool (Mia) can be safely adopted as the second reader in the breast screening workflow. They will be doing this across 15 NHS Breast Screening sites in the UK to prove generalisability. The tool will need to work for any woman, anywhere. This webinar presents an opportunity to find out more about the strategic context of the work with talks from the national leads at NHSEI and NHSx backing the project, clinicians helping to run the research and Kheiron itself on what we hope to achieve. Register
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ORCHA: Health apps for cancer services
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untilIn this webinar, Dr Sam Shah, Chief Clinical Digital Advisor, ORCHA, will be joined by Ellie Bryant, Senior Innovation Consultant, Macmillan Cancer Support; Amanda Begley, co-founder and National Director for the NHS Innovation Accelerator (NIA) and Director of Innovation and Implementation, UCL Partners and Dr Tom Micklewrigh. The webinar will discuss: The findings from ORCHA's latest report: Digital Health for Cancer Services. The Macmillan Cancer Support Curated Content project working with ORCHA. The opportunity for innovation in the cancer pathway. Examples of high-scoring apps that can help cancer patients. Suggestions for ways that services can embed five of these apps. Register -
EventThis conference will provide a practical guide to delivering an effective prehabilitation programme, ensuring patients are fit for cancer surgery or treatment. This is even more important in light of the COVID-19 pandemic and lockdowns which have had a negative effect on many individual’s health and fitness levels. The conference will look at optimisation of patients fitness and wellbeing through exercise, nutrition and psychological support. Register
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EventThe Professional Records Standard Body (PRSB) are holding a workshop on 4 March to help us develop a shared decision-making standard, so that individuals can be more involved in the decisions that affect their health, care and wellbeing. The online workshop will bring together health and care professionals, patients and system vendors to focus on different topics including diabetes and other long-term conditions, mental health, child health, gynaecology, colorectal cancer, genetic conditions, multi-medications and orthopaedics. We will be asking questions about the way information about treatment and care options are discussed and decisions recorded. This would include consent for treatment, when it is agreed, and any pre-operative assessments and requirements. By standardising the process, it will ensure that information can be shared consistently using any digital systems. If you’re interested in getting involved in the project, please contact info@theprsb.org
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EventCancer affects us all. Survival in England is at a record high and patients’ experience of treatment and care has never been higher, but we won’t stop there. We want every person with cancer to have the very best diagnosis, treatment and care. NHS England & Improvement The NHS Long Term Plan set out a clear pathway for the improvement of cancer care, the aim being: • Enable an extra 55,000 people each year to survive for five years or more following their cancer diagnosis. • Three in four cancers (75%) will be diagnosed at an early stage. This virtual conference aims to showcase the forward-thinking and innovative initiatives that are already being implemented across the country. Register
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Content ArticleCancer screening involves testing for early signs of cancer in people without symptoms. It can help spot cancers at an early stage, when treatment is more likely to be successful, or in some cases prevent cancer from developing the first place. The screening test for bowel cancer is the faecal immunochemical test, or FIT, that looks for tiny traces of blood in your poo. These tests are sent to everyone in the eligible population every two years. In this blog Jacob Smith from Cancer Research UK looks at the importance of increasing bowel cancer screening in socioeconomically deprived communities, where there is a higher incidence of bowel cancer and death from bowel cancer. This is partly due to lower levels of participation in screening. The blog highlights the results of a recent study carried out by the University of Sheffield to determine which interventions may be successful in reducing health inequalities related to bowel cancer screening. Modelling found that re-inviting non-participants to take part in screening each year was a highly effective intervention, and it is estimated that this approach would prevent over 11,000 bowel cancer deaths over the lifetime of the current English population aged 50-74.
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Content ArticleThis report examines the impact of the Covid-19 pandemic on people living with long-term conditions and highlights that many have deteriorated faster than usual due to being unable to access rehabilitation services. It makes recommendations to the government aimed at restoring rehabilitation support services. The report was produced collaboratively by The Alzheimer's Society, The Stroke Association, Macmillan Cancer Support, The Centre for Mental Health, Age UK, The College of Podiatry, The Royal College of Speech and Language Therapists, The Royal College of Occupational Therapists, The Chartered Society of Physiotherapy and The British Dietetic Association.
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Content ArticleThis retrospective cohort study in the British Journal of General Practice aimed to identify opportunities for timely investigations or referrals in patients presenting with potential symptoms of colon and rectal cancer, or abnormal blood tests. The study found evidence that patients with these cancers presented with low haemoglobin, high platelets and high inflammatory markers as early as nine months pre-diagnosis, and the authors suggest that starting cancer-specific investigations or referrals earlier may be beneficial in patients with some of these diagnostic markers.
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Content ArticleThis article in The BMJ examines the risks and benefits of current prostate cancer screening methods in the UK. It highlights issues that prevent early diagnosis including great variation in how prostate cancers behave and the poor performance of prostate specific antigen (PSA) testing in identifying disease that requires treatment. As a result of the limited benefits of screening for prostate cancer, routine screening is not recommended by the UK’s National Screening Committee or the US Preventive Service Task Force. The authors highlight that a bid by NHS England to find an estimated 14,000 men who have not yet started treatment for prostate cancer due to the pandemic, seems to contradict this recommendation. The NHS campaign warns that people shouldn’t wait for symptoms and encourages men to use a risk checker which informs patients of risk factors including family history, age and ethnicity. The authors express concern that the campaign implies there is great benefit in detecting asymptomatic disease, which could lead people to believe that the NHS is promoting screening. They argue that the NHS needs to be clearer and more consistent in its messaging, making sure that information aimed at the public emphasises that although PSA testing is available on request for men older than 50, it is not currently recommended, and why.
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Content ArticleThis ITV documentary tells the story of how surgeon Ian Paterson duped his patients into believing they had cancer and performed unnecessary surgeries on them, before he was caught and jailed for 20 years in 2017. It features personal accounts of patients who were harmed by Paterson while he worked in NHS and private practice. Further reading: Report of the independent Inquiry into the issues raised by Paterson (4 February 2020) Patient Safety Learning’s response to the Paterson Inquiry (11 February 2020) Government response to the independent inquiry report into the issues raised by former surgeon Ian Paterson (16 December 2021)
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Content ArticleFew things are more devastating than a cancer diagnosis, shares Maria Caulfield, minister for women’s health. She should know – she’s worked on a cancer ward for the best part of twenty five years and supported women through diagnosis, treatment, and recovery. Here, she speaks exclusively to Marie Claire UK about her ten year plan and how we can make gynae issues a thing of the past. Not only does she want to prevent the five gynaecological cancers, but she wants to help make sure we diagnose them early, too: we know that the earlier you are diagnosed, the higher your chance of survival.
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Content ArticleThis study from Pickles et al. explores experiences of women who identified themselves as having a possible breast cancer overdiagnosis.
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Content ArticleUK Asian and Black ethnic groups have poorer outcomes for some cancers and are less likely to report a positive care experience than their White counterparts it was found in a study from Martins et al. reported in the British Journal of Cancer. The study investigated ethnic differences in the route to diagnosis (RTD) to identify areas in patients' cancer journeys where inequalities lie and targeted intervention might have optimum impact. Across the 10 cancers studied, most patients were diagnosed via the two-week wait (36.4%), elective GP referral (23.2%), emergency (18.2%), hospital routes (10.3%), and screening (8.61%). Patients of Other ethnic group had the highest proportion of diagnosis via the emergency route, followed by White patients. Asian and Black group were more likely to be GP-referred, with the Black and Mixed groups also more likely to follow the two-week wait route. However, there were notable cancer-specific differences in the RTD by ethnicity. These findings suggest that, where inequalities exist, the adverse cancer outcomes among Asian and Black patients are unlikely to be arising solely from a poorer diagnostic process.
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Content ArticleThis thesis explores different aspects of risk and safety in healthcare, adding to previous research by studying patient safety in first-contact care, primary care and the emergency department. The author investigated preventable harm and serious safety incidents in primary health care and emergency departments, and found that diagnostic error was the most common type or error. The thesis makes recommendations for safety improvements at all levels of a healthcare system.
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Content ArticleThe results of an analysis published by Cancer Research UK estimate that more than 21 million UK adults will be obese by 2040, which equates to almost 4 in 10 of the UK adult population (36%). The analysis also suggests that if current overweight and obesity trends continue, the number of UK adults who are overweight or obese may exceed this, reaching around 7 in 10 people, or 42 million people, by 2040, 71% of the population. Worryingly, the report also indicates that the number of people who are obese could overtake the number who are a healthy weight in the UK by 2040. This ‘tipping point’ could happen as early as the late 2020s for the UK as a whole and England, with Northern Ireland following suit in the late 2030s. For Scotland and Wales, the crossover is not expected to happen before 2040. The report also suggests those experiencing higher levels of deprivation could suffer the most. In England in 2019, 35% of people living in the most deprived areas were obese, and this is estimated to increase to almost half (46%) by 2040. In comparison, 22% of people living in the least deprived areas were obese in 2019 and this is estimated to increase to 25%. These projections predict an increase in the relative deprivation gap for obesity prevalence between the least and most deprived quintiles by 13%, from 45% in 2019, to 58% by 2040 in England. Obesity increases the risk of at least 13 different types of cancer. Every year around 22,800 cases of cancer in the UK are due to being overweight or obese. More research is needed to understand the link between obesity and cancer.
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Content ArticleThis first report in National Voices' ‘Behind the Headlines’ series gathers insight and intelligence from member organisations on what the cost of living crisis means for people living with ill health. It examines the close link between poverty and health, highlighting that people living in poverty are more likely to be living in poor health. Equally, lack of support for people living with ill health and disability can make people poor. The report gathers case studies and data on topics including include cancer, kidney conditions, older people and homelessness. It makes a set of recommendations based on this insight.
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Content ArticleAn estimated 1 in every 182 Americans will be diagnosed with cancer this year. Providing them safe care has inherent challenges, such as reaching an accurate diagnosis as quickly as possible, differentiating between disease progression and treatment side effects, and addressing broader systemic risks. Caitlyn Allen, sat down with medical oncologist and former chief quality officer of the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Dr. Joseph O. Jacobson, to discuss the evolution of oncology care and what the future may hold.
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Content ArticlePicker, an international charity working across health and social care, have published the results of their National Cancer Patient Experience Survey. Almost 60,000 people responded to the survey, which was coordinated by Picker on behalf of NHS England and conducted between October 2021 and February 2022. The survey included people aged 16 years and over with a confirmed primary diagnosis of cancer and who had been treated in hospital between April and June 2021.
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Content ArticleClosed-loop communication—when every test result is sent, received, acknowledged and acted upon without failure—is essential to reduce diagnostic error. This requires multiple parties within the healthcare system working together to refer, carry out tests, interpret the results and communicate them in language the patient can understand. If abnormal test results are not communicated in a timely manner, it can lead to patient harm. This Quick Safety case study looks at the case of a 47-year-old school teacher who had a screening mammogram. The radiologist identified a suspicious area of calcifications, which required follow up. The patient’s GP was not on the same electronic medical record (EMR) as the imaging centre and, because of front office changes, missed the notification to follow up. The patient was told that the radiologist would contact her if the results were abnormal and therefore assumed she was okay. A year later when seeing her GP, the patient was told that she needed follow-up testing and that she had stage 3 cancer. Her lesion had grown significantly, and she now required surgery, chemotherapy and radiation for advanced breast cancer. The case study suggests safety actions that should be considered to prevent this error from happening again.
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Symptoms of pancreatic cancer (Pancreatic Cancer UK)
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Content ArticleResearch suggests that there is a wide gap in knowledge about how medical conditions affect men and women differently, and about the conditions that only affect women. As a result, women are receiving poorer medical advice and diagnosis, often leading to worse outcomes. This handbook published by digital healthcare provider Livi looks at some of the evidence surrounding sex-based health inequalities and how they are affecting women in the UK.
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Content ArticleThe pandemic has had an enormous impact on health and care services in the UK. In this article, Nuffield Trust fellows Jessica Morris and Sarah Reed take a closer look at access and waiting times before and after the start of the Covid-19 pandemic. They highlight that before the pandemic, pressure on the system was already reducing access to NHS services and making waiting times longer. Covid-19 has made the situation significantly worse due to the need for heightened infection control practices, rising levels of staff sickness and burnout, the cancellation of routine care and redirection of staff. Enabling services to recover will be challenging given these ongoing pressures and real-term budget cuts for the NHS this year. The article examines the impact of the pandemic on waiting times relating to: General practice Elective (planned) care Diagnostic testing Cancer care A&E Ambulance
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Content ArticlePatients and providers often don't recognise skin cancer on darker skin. Medical school faculty and students are trying to change that.
