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Content ArticleA novel human coronavirus that is now named severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) (formerly called HCoV-19) emerged in Wuhan, China, in late 2019 and is now causing a pandemic. The authors of this research, published in The New England Journal of Medicine, analysed the aerosol and surface stability of SARS-CoV-2 and compared it with SARS-CoV-1, the most closely related human coronavirus.
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Content ArticleThis article, published by The Lancet, is written by Dale fisher, Chair of the Global Outbreak Alert and Response Network (GOARN) and Annelies Wilder-Smith, co-Chair of the Lancet Infectious Diseases Commission on Preparedness for Emerging Epidemic Threats. They highlight the urgent public health action required in response to the coronavirus outbreak.
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To beat COVID-19, social distancing is a must (19 March 2020)
PatientSafetyLearning Team posted an article in Blogs
A blog by the National Institutes of Health Director, Dr. Francis Collins, highlighting relevant research that shows how important it is for everyone to comply with social distancing advice. The National Institutes of Health is a US based, government organisation. -
Content ArticleThis video, from US news channel abc6, shows a nurse on the front line expressing a dire need for protective gear to help keep the most vulnerable out of the hospitals. The Ohio Council for Home Care and Hospice is calling on Governor Mike DeWine to act now.
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Scope: Coronavirus information
PatientSafetyLearning Team posted an article in Good practice and useful resources
This webpage from Scope provides up to date information about how coronovirus is impacting on their service provision. Content includes information on Scope's: service changes shop closures the Scope helpline the Scope online community. -
Content ArticleIn a blog published in the Guardian, Kathryn Hearn says the UK government’s treatment of the coronavirus outbreak has in effect written off all of us with health issues. The language used by officials describing the spiralling scenarios risks dehumanising us, and makes us feel we no longer matter, Kathryn explains. NHS England’s latest report on the health of the nation acknowledged that 43% of adults – that’s nearly 20 million people – are living with at least one long-term health condition. Although not all of those would be directly in danger from Covid-19, there’s still a major section of our society who will be. You’ll know somebody, for sure. Until Monday’s U-turn, the UK government’s policy was to manage rather than to contain the virus - which would have allowed close to a quarter of a million people to die. Allowing Covid-19 to spread throughout the population in the hope of building some “herd immunity” among the youngest, fittest and healthiest "felt irresponsible at best, and callous at worst".
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Content ArticleAn animated video explaining the science behind the coronovirus, how it affects the human body and what you should do.
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Content ArticleThis article in the Washington Post simply describes COVID-19, how it spreads and how extensive social distancing helps.
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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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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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Content ArticleIn this blog, psychotherapist Donna Butler gives practical advice on how to keep your mental health in good shape during periods of self isolation and worrying times. Donna is an Integrative psychotherapist, having trained at Brighton & Sussex Universities and the Institute for Arts in Therapy and Education in London, where she gained a Masters in Psychotherapy.
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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. -
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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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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 ArticleJohnathan Occleshaw is a Hepatitis C Coordinator for the North West region. In this article, on the Care, Grow, Live website, he explains how the Integrated Recovery Service in Halton micro-eliminated hepatitis C.
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Content ArticleThis guidance for the public was developed by 'Doctors of the World'. It has been written in 16 different languages: English Vietnamese Turkish Spanish Portuguese Pashto Mandarin Kurdish Hindi French farsi Dari Bengali Arabic Albanian.
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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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Coronavirus: myth busters (WHO)
PatientSafetyLearning Team posted an article in Good practice and useful resources
The World Health Organization has produced a list of questions and answers to help provide the public with accurate information on the coronavirus. -
Content ArticleThe novel coronavirus began circulating in China in December 2019. The number of confirmed cases and deaths from this pneumonia-like condition are rising. This page is where all BMJ coverage of the coronavirus outbreak can be found. All articles and resources are freely available.
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Content ArticleThis report by the World Health Organization, draws attention to gender as a powerful determinant of health care access and outcomes. By analysing universal health coverage (UHC) indicators from a gender perspective, including indicators dis-aggregated by sex, the report exposes how people’s gender intersects with their socioeconomic backgrounds and other aspects of their identities and circumstances to produce health inequities. It applies gender and equity perspectives to service coverage and financial protection, two key dimensions of UHC. It concentrates on the policies and services of health systems, while acknowledging that breaking gender- and equity-related barriers requires a multisectoral approach. It shows how health systems and UHC policies, by increasing gender responsiveness, can improve equity. And it recommends ways to incorporate gender in the UHC framework for monitoring country progress.
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Patient safety: this is public health (2014)
Patient Safety Learning posted an article in Improving patient safety
Avoidable patient harm is a major public health concern. While the public health community has contributed much to one aspect of patient harm prevention, infection control, the tools and techniques of public health have far more to offer to the emerging field of patient safety science. Patient safety practice has become increasingly professionalised in recent years, but specialist degree programmes in the field remain scarce. Healthcare organisations should consider graduate training in public health as an avenue for investing in the professional development of patient safety practitioners, and schools and programs of public health should support further research and teaching to support patient safety improvement. Alan J Card discusses this further in his article in the Journal of Healthcare Risk Management.
