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Content ArticleThe UK continues to feel the consequences of the Covid-19 pandemic, both through its impact on the nation’s health, as well as the prolonged impact on the UK economy. Yet despite this, there isn’t enough attention on boosting population health, the NHS and social care to build resilience to future shocks and support economic recovery. For the 2022 REAL challenge lecture, Andy Haldane, Chief Executive of the RSA and former Chief Economist at the Bank of England, explored the relationship between health and wealth. He drew lessons from the pandemic and argued for a more holistic economic growth strategy where health and wealth are inextricably linked.
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Content ArticleWe need urgent radical solutions for the crisis in social care, to prevent the collapse not just of the NHS but of the entire UK economy. Social care is facing extreme difficulties with funding and workforce shortages. Staff are poorly paid, and 10% of posts are vacant. The situation is about to get worse: 19% of the UK population is over 65. In Northern Ireland the number of people over 65 more than doubled between the censuses in 2011 and 2021. Projections show that each person will need an average of 10 years of social care. We must, then, focus on prevention. The need for social care is not inevitable. Ageing does not have to be associated with a loss of fitness. Exercise and strength training can restore muscle and balance and are proved to reduce the impact of falls and fractures.
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The King's Fund: Population health global summit
Sam posted an event in Community Calendar
untilThe COVID-19 pandemic has underlined the deep inequalities and stark differences in health that exist between different population groups and areas of England. There are many factors that affect people’s health and wellbeing, and traditional health and care services is only one of these. Addressing all these factors is key to tackling health inequalities. With NHS England and NHS Improvement, The King's Fund brings you this free one-day virtual event. Sign up now to hear from national and international examples of best practice and explore how: local organisations working in partnership and collaborating with one another can help deliver population health locally data and insight can be used to analyse and develop population health strategies and new integrated care models addressing the wider determinants of health as part of a population health approach can help reduce health inequalities. Registration -
Content ArticleThe COVID-19 pandemic clearly illustrates the intersection of structural racism, social risk factors, and health. Data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention on COVID-19 infection and mortality rates show high incidences in specific geographic regions. Further investigation within Louisiana revealed that rates of hospitalisation and death in Black patients were twice as high as would be expected on the basis of demographic representation. It has been hypothesised that increased exposure to COVID-19 among Black Americans is attributable to greater representation in service occupations and a greater likelihood of living in inner cities with high population density.
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Content ArticleStress, depression and anxiety account for a significant portion of work related ill-health cases. With many of those still employed now working remotely as a result of the COVID-19 crisis, this trend seems set to continue, with an always-on-culture that has now entered our homes.In this paper, published with Autonomy and 4 Day Week, Nic Murray looks at the clear overlap between over work and mental ill-health, how this disproportionately affects women and the potential options for reducing our working time and preventing work practices that harm mental health, including a 4 day week.
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Content ArticleAs the UK emerges from the COVID-19 pandemic ‘Build Back Better’ has become the mantra. Important, but we need to Build Back Fairer. The levels of social, environmental and economic inequality in society are damaging health and wellbeing. The aim of this report from the Institute of Health Equity is three-fold: To examine inequalities in COVID-19 mortality. Focus is on inequalities in mortality among members of BAME groups and among certain occupations, alongside continued attention to the socioeconomic gradient in health – the more deprived the area, the worse COVID-19 mortality tends to be. To show the effects that the pandemic, and the societal response to contain the pandemic, have had on social and economic inequalities, their effects on mental and physical health, and their likely effects on health inequalities in the future. To make recommendations on what needs to be done.
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Content ArticleThe Health Index is a new tool to measure a broad variety of health outcomes and risk factors over time, and for different geographic areas. This methodology article explains how the Health Index has been constructed.
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Content ArticleHealth and well-being boards (HWBs) were established under the Health and Social Care Act 2012 to act as a forum in which key leaders from the local health and care system could work together to improve the health and well-being of their local population. In this report from the Kings Fund, Richard Humphries examines the part HWBs and local government more broadly, have played in the emergence of Integrated Care Systens (ICSs) so far and options for their future. Significantly, this report does not mention patient safety. Neither does it reflect on improvement in safety and quality though the more effective cross organisational collaboration at local system level.
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Content ArticleTackling antimicrobial resistance (AMR) and Healthcare Associated Infection (HAI) are currently a priority within healthcare and antimicrobial stewardship is an essential element of national and local programmes to address AMR. The aim of this webinar is to provide an overview of antimicrobial stewardship (AS), its importance in tackling Healthcare Associated Infection (HAI) and how pharmacists can contribute.
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Content ArticleThe pharmacy contribution to antimicrobial stewardship document focuses on the pharmacist’s role as part of a multidisciplinary approach in tackling the challenges of inappropriate use of antibiotics. The recommendations in this policy have been produced in order to contribute to wider efforts in meeting the challenge set by the UK Government in 2016 of reducing inappropriate antibiotic prescribing by 50% by 2020.
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Drugs.com: UK medication database
Claire Cox posted an article in Medicine management
Drugs.com is the largest, most widely visited, independent medicine information website available on the internet. Their aim is to be the internet’s most trusted resource for drug and related health information. They are trying to achieve this aim by presenting independent, objective, comprehensive and up-to-date information in a clear and concise format for both consumers and healthcare professionals. -
Content ArticleCommunity-based workforce initiatives support vulnerable populations during uncertain times. This blog from Manchanda highlights the role community health workers, volunteers and nonprofit organisations play in COVID-19 testing and contact tracing strategy implementation, psychological support provision, and establishment of the infrastructure communities need to address challenges specific to their local challenges.
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Content ArticleSara Albolina and Giulia Dagliana share the lessons learned from Italy and provide valuable guidance in this podcast shared on the Project Patient Care website. The podcast has been widely circulated among US healthcare provider organisations, patient advocates, and government organisations.
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Content ArticleThe first studies are emerging of what happens to people that recover from coronavirus. This article in the Independent looks at the evidence as the first research on the longer term effects of the virus is emerging.
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Coronavirus: Why it’s so deadly in Italy
Patient Safety Learning posted an article in Data, research and statistics
As we study the numbers on the coronavirus cases and the deaths related to COVID-19, a similar question comes up again and again: Why is the coronavirus causing so many more deaths in Italy than in other countries? In this article, published in Medium, Andreas Backhaus, an Economist, discusses the demographics and why they are a warning to other countries. -
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Coronavirus (COVID-19) and prisons (visiting) (last updated 17 March)
Claire Cox posted an article in Guidance
Guidance from the Ministry of Justice and Her Majesty’s Prison and Probation Service about visiting prisons during the coronavirus outbreak. -
Content ArticleThe global impact of COVID-19 has been profound, and the public health threat it represents is the most serious seen in a respiratory virus since the 1918 H1N1 influenza pandemic. Ferguson et al. present the results of epidemiological modelling which has informed policymaking in the UK and other countries in recent weeks. In the absence of a COVID-19 vaccine, they assess the potential role of a number of public health measures – so-called non-pharmaceutical interventions (NPIs) – aimed at reducing contact rates in the population and thereby reducing transmission of the virus. In the results presented Imperial, apply a previously published microsimulation model to two countries: the UK (Great Britain specifically) and the US. They conclude that the effectiveness of any one intervention in isolation is likely to be limited, requiring multiple interventions to be combined to have a substantial impact on transmission.
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NHS Inform: Coronavirus (COVID-19)
Claire Cox posted an article in Guidance
NHS Inform is Scotland's national health information service. They have produced this web page to help inform the public on what do do and how to repsond to the coronavirus crisis. -
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Public Health England: COVID-19 Dashboard
Claire Cox posted an article in Data, research and statistics
This dashboard produced by Public Health England provides daily updates of all cases, recovery rates and deaths of coronavirus in the UK. -
Content ArticleThis document outlines the infection prevention and control advice for healthcare workers involved in receiving, assessing and caring for patients who are a possible or confirmed case of COVID-19. It is based on the best evidence available from previous pandemic and interpandemic periods and focuses on the infection prevention and control aspects of this disease only, recognising that a preparedness plan will consider other counter measures. The infection prevention and control advice in this document is considered good practice in response to this COVID-19 pandemic. NB: The emerging evidence base on COVID-19 is rapidly evolving. Further updates may be made to this guidance as new detail or evidence emerges.
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Content ArticleThis infographic developed by the World Heath Organization, pictures how to put on and take off personal protective equipment safely.
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World Economic Forum: COVID Action Platform
Claire Cox posted an article in Good practice and useful resources
As the International Organisation for Public-Private Cooperation, the World Economic Forum, acting as partner to the World Health Organization, is mobilising all stakeholders to protect lives and livelihoods. The dramatic spread of COVID-19 has disrupted lives, livelihoods, communities and businesses worldwide. All stakeholders, especially global business, must urgently come together to minimise its impact on public health and limit its potential for further disruption to lives and economies around the world. But the sum of many individual actions will not add up to a sufficient response. Only coordinated action by business, combined with global, multi stakeholder cooperation – at exceptional scale and speed – can potentially mitigate the risk and impact of this unprecedented crisis. -
Content ArticleCoronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19), caused by the COVID-19 virus, was first detected in Wuhan, China, in December 2019. On 30 January 2020, the WHO Director-General declared that the current outbreak constituted a public health emergency of international concern. This document summarises WHO’s recommendations for the rational use of personal protective equipment (PPE) in healthcare and community settings, as well as during the handling of cargo; in this context, PPE includes gloves, medical masks, goggles or a face shield, and gowns, as well as for specific procedures, respirators (i.e., N95 or FFP2 standard or equivalent) and aprons. This document is intended for those who are involved in distributing and managing PPE, as well as public health authorities and individuals in healthcare and community settings, and it aims to provide information about when PPE use is most appropriate.
