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    Perspectum has launched the first study to map how COVID-19 impacts the health of multiple organs and identify at-risk features for the virus, with detailed cross-sectional imaging and genetic studies. This study is on the National Institute for Health Research (NIHR) Portfolio. Join COVERSCAN for the next live Q&A webinar. Any questions you'd like answered, send to: Perspectum.Communications@perspectum.com Register for study participant Q&A
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    This Westminister Health Forum conference is focussing on the future of vaccination programmes in the UK. Stakeholders and policymakers will review progress and discuss what can be learned for the future development and uptake of vaccinations - as well as the priorities for improving routine immunisation coverage in the UK. The conference takes place with the UK COVID-19 vaccination programme overwhelmingly regarded as progressing well, but with: challenges - around take-up and reluctance from some sections of society to engage tensions - internationally and within the UK over supply and distribution questions - over how to achieve sufficient global levels of immunisation. Areas for discussion include: progress, early lessons and the role of the vaccine in the wider national response to the pandemic development of the COVID-19 vaccine and what can be learned from the innovative methods and processes that have been used to implement rollout at pace and scale implications for the future of vaccines in the UK and improving routine immunisation coverage in the UK the future role of the UK in global development, rollout and administration of vaccinations. Register
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    This conference will update clinicians and managers on clinical negligence with a particular focus on current issues and the COVID-19 pandemic and the impact on clinical negligence claims. Featuring leadings legal experts, NHS Resolution and experienced clinicians the event will provide an update on current claims the conference will discuss why patients litigate, The Coronavirus Act 2020 and Clinical Negligence Scheme for Coronavirus, responding to claims regarding COVID-19 and the implications of the coronavirus clinical negligence claims protocol. There will be an extended masterclass on trends in clinical negligence claims and responding to claims followed by an extended focus on Maternity Claims. The conference will close with a case study on the advantages of bringing together complaints, claims and patients safety investigation, and practical experiences of coronavirus complaints at claims at an NHS Trust – including understanding the standard of care on which services should be judged, and a final session on supporting clinicians when a claim is made against them. Further information and registration or email: kate@hc-uk.org.uk hub members receive 10% discount. Email: info@pslhub.org
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    Chaired by Professor Derek Bell OBE, Professor of Acute Medicine, Imperial College London and Immediate Past President, Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh, this conference focuses on recognising and responding to the deteriorating patient and ensuring best practice in the use of NEWS2. There will be a focus on recognising and responding to deteriorating patients with COVID-19. This conference will enable you to: Network with colleagues who are working to improve the recognition and management of deteriorating patients. Learn from outstanding practice in improving care for deteriorating patients. Implement the recommendations from the HSIB Investigation into responding to critically unwell patients. Reflect on national developments and learning including latest evidence on effective implementation of NEWS2 in patients with COVID-19. Understand the practicalities of involving patients and their families in the recognition of deterioration. Develop your skills in identifying deteriorating patients including those with COVID-19. Understand what success factors facilitate escalation of care and how can these be applied more reliably. Ensure effective implementation of NEWS2. Understand how to work with clinical teams to create a language and spread this across the whole health system. Self assess, reflect and expand your skills in the management of sepsis, and communicating the risks to patients who have recovered from COVID-19 Gain CPD accreditation points contributing to professional development and revalidation evidence. Further information and registration or email: kerry@hc-uk.org.uk hub members can receive 10% discount. Email: info@pslhub.org Follow on Twitter @HCUK_Clare #deterioratingpatient
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    WHO will host a monthly WHO COVID-19 Vaccine research forum, starting on Tuesday 2 March 2021. This first webinar is scheduled between 14:00 – 16:00 Central European Time (CET). The agenda will be shared in advance. The goals of these ongoing meetings are: To encourage and facilitate the rapid dissemination of research protocols and emerging results. To provide regular updates against R&D Blueprint roadmap priorities with the ability to pivot given dynamic research needs. Register
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    This Westminster Health Forum event discusses key priorities and next steps for improving older people’s care. The conference will be an opportunity to assess the management of care through the pandemic and the policy support required to tackle the critical challenges currently being faced around community support, integrated care, and managing and preventing long-term conditions. Areas for discussion include: progress on integrated care systems and on community care rollout of urgent rapid response teams and reducing the length of hospital admissions delivery of care during the COVID-19 crisis, and the vaccination programme digital remote management of long term conditions self-funding of older people’s care prevention, including weight management service tackling loneliness. Register
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    This Westminster Health Forum event will examine the key policy priorities for tackling health inequalities in the national recovery from COVID-19. Includes a keynote contribution from Professor Sir Michael Marmot, Professor of Epidemiology and Director, Institute of Health Equity, University College London. Key areas for discussion will also include: research and evidence - understanding the impact of the pandemic on inequalities and key challenges it has highlighted, and the use of data and population health approaches policy priorities - including investment and cross-government coordination tackling variation - supporting vulnerable communities, addressing regional imbalances, and tackling digital exclusion initiatives at a local level - place-based working, healthy communities, and the role of health service networks, local authorities, the third sector, and community groups. Register
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    The countries focus on critical care services in England has increased because of COVID-19. A significant proportion of hospitalised patients with COVID-19 require help with breathing, including mechanical ventilation and other services critical care staff and units provide. Delivering sufficient critical care capacity goes beyond physical infrastructures – such as having more beds and equipment – and requires sufficient numbers of trained and available staff. The NHS ICU Virtual Summit: Future-Proofing Critical Care conference aims to celebrate the current efforts of ICU staff, in this time of unprecedented strain, via best practice and practical insight. We will also take a look at some key areas of potential improvement including: Understanding intensive care staffing, occupancy and capacity. Infection control. Crisis management and emergency preparedness. Clinical Information Systems. NHS staff and services will continue to be tested to their limits over the coming months, this short but high-value session aims to bring peers together from across the UK to share best practice and outcomes. Register
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    This free online event from the King's Fund will provide insight into the wider UK health and care landscape in 2021 and will explore how recent trends, the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic and future developments could affect people working in the sector, patients and the wider population. The speakers will discuss some of the big issues that we hope to see progress on in 2021, including health and care staff wellbeing, social care reform, population health and health inequalities, and legislative changes to support the integration agenda. Register
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    Chief executive Joe Rafferty and strategic advisor for digital programmes Jim Hughes, will discuss how Mersey Care Foundation Trust has been part of a region-wide programme to develop shared understanding of covid and other pressures. Joining them on the panel will be Rebecca Malby, professor in health systems innovation at London South Bank University, and Markus Bolton, director of Graphnet Health – which is supporting the event. In a discussion chaired by HSJ contributor Claire Read, they will explore the value of a shared understanding of which pressures and caseloads exist in an area and consider how digital technologies might play a role here. Which parties need to be involved? Which information is most important to which groups? How can worries about information governance be overcome? Register
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    Release of a major report containing recommendations gathered through the work of the All-Party Parliamentary Group (APPG) on Coronavirus. This report will be the first comprehensive assessment of the UK government’s handling of the pandemic, and consists of 40 recommendations which we will deliver directly to the Prime Minister. From the failure to protect the elderly in care homes, to the over-centralised, outsourced and ineffective test, trace, isolate and support system, the report will make clear the government’s mishandling of the pandemic. There will be a live Q&A on the day of the launch of the report. Register
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    A Westminster Health Forum policy conference with: Dr Clifford Mann, National Clinical Director, Urgent and Emergency Care, NHS England and NHS Improvement Dr Katherine Henderson, President, Royal College of Emergency Medicine Jessica Morris, Nuffield Trust; Dr Nick Scriven, The Society of Acute Medicine; Sandie Smith, Healthwatch Cambridgeshire and Peterborough; and Deborah Thompson, NHS Acute Frailty and Ambulatory Emergency Care Networks and NHS Elect Delegates will discuss key developments and challenges in the context of service changes in response to the COVID-19 pandemic, and the ongoing implementation of the NHS Long Term Plan. Register
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    Currently very little is known about the clinical, biological, psychological and socio-environmental impact of COVID-19. While most people may have uncomplicated recoveries, some experience prolonged or new symptoms and complications. The wide range of Long Covid symptoms documented indicates that multiple body systems are involved. Some of the more commonly reported symptoms include fatigue, breathing difficulties, joint pain, chest pain, as well as muscle weakness and neurological symptoms. These are common among both people who were hospitalised in the early phase of COVID-19 and those who were not. Systematic reviews show that people worldwide are experiencing prolonged symptoms of COVID-19. There are implications at an individual level for people’s quality of life and their ability to work, as well as at a socioeconomic level due to the risk of widening health inequalities. As well as breadth of the physical, psychological and social complications, there is a need to understand the causes (aetiology) of the symptoms and complications experienced. It is also vital to be able to identify people at higher risk of Long Covid, as well as interventions that might reduce that risk, and support rehabilitation and recovery. There is an urgent need for robust scientific studies into the long-term impact of COVID-19 in both adults and children, and for healthcare providers to be informed to support prevention, assessment, rehabilitation and interventions to improve recovery and patient outcomes. With this need in mind, ISARIC and GloPID-R are organising the Long Covid Forum on December 9 and 10, 2020 in collaboration with the Long Covid Support. The objectives of the forum will be: to gain a better understanding of Long Covid; the science and the personal impact to define research gaps for funders and researchers to take forward. Register
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    The Chronic Long Covid19 support group presents this international conference for patients. Presenters: Dr David Tuller, Global Public Health Expert, University of Berkeley, California: graded exercise therapy/cognitive behavior therapy treatment approach to ME and why it should not be used for long-covid patients. Nikita Alexandrov biochemist/biohacker, University of Alabama, USA: COVID-19 and the elephants in the room – big misconceptions and important out of the box observations made so far. Secondary infections: why there is no real cytokine storm concern and the issue of mast cell activation. Book your place
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    How are we ensuring that patient and staff safety is being prioritised during the pandemic? Presenters: Helen Hughes, Chief Executive, Patient Safety Learning, Dr Abdulelah Alhawsawi, Director General, Saudi Patient Safety Center, Professor Ted Baker, Chief Inspector of Hospitals, Care Quality Commission It can be argued that staff safety has not been prioritised as it should have been in recent years. The Covid-19 pandemic has reinforced this. It has exposed risks to staff physical and mental wellbeing, with inadequate Personal Protective Equipment (PPE), intensely difficult physical and psychological working conditions, and, tragically, it has resulted in deaths from exposure to Covid-19 as a result of inadequate infection control. The importance of overarching leadership for patient safety in health and social care is a key concept. Ensuring that leaders embed staff safety into safety programmes is essential. Some of the core issues that the panel will be exploring: How are leaders ensuring patient and staff safety during the pandemic? Are we doing enough? How are we prioritising patient access to non Covid care and treatment? Are we doing enough to encourage just and learning cultures and staff speaking up for safety? How are we sharing learning and knowledge on safe treatment and care? How are system and professional regulators ensuring that patient safety is a priority? Register
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    The UK’s current strategy is outlined in its “Living with Covid-19” plan, which has three key pillars: vaccines, testing and treatment. In April 2022, the Tony Blair Institute for Global Change undertook a critical analysis of this plan: what worked well, what didn’t, and what needed to change to manage Covid more effectively, and to protect society and the economy. The recommendations were incremental steps amounting to a responsible and proactive strategy. Unfortunately, as we see from the recent rapid rise in cases – most involving people who are being infected for the first time – as well as from the increasing hospitalisations and the rise in deaths, the strategy shows what living with Covid means in reality. To support the government, this paper sets out immediate and practical measures to safely guide the country through the latest Covid wave and to outline the longer-term shifts that will better prepare it for public-health emergency management in the future – including by restoring trust with the public. 
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    This article in the Nursing Times Long Covid series discusses how nurses are at high occupational risk of Long Covid and how best to support them.
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    Today may be the most difficult day the NHS has ever experienced. The headlines will focus on the pressures created by the heatwave and that most visible sign of healthcare failure – ambulances queuing outside hospitals. But, as we know all too well, this brutal situation is the culmination of many factors, which include but are not limited to prolonged periods of underfunding in the past decade, lack of an adequate workforce plan, and a cowardly and short-sighted failure to undertake social care reform, writes Dr Kamran Abbasi, editor of the BMJ, and HSJ editor, Alastair McLellan, in this joint editorial.
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    Despite under-reporting, health workers (HWs) accounted for 2-30% of the reported COVID-19 cases worldwide. In line with data from other countries, Jordan recorded multiple case surges among HWs. This study from Tarif et al. looked at infection prevention and control risk factors in HWs infected with Covid-19. Study findings confirmed the role of hand hygiene as one of the most cost-effective measures to combat the spreading of viral infections.
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    COVID-19 is more likely to lead to Long COVID among persons of working age. In this paper, Darja Reuschke  and Donald Houston outline the first estimates of the impact of Long Covid on employment in the UK. Using estimates of cumulative prevalence of Long Covid, activity-limiting Long COVID in the working-age population and of economic inactivity and job loss resulting from Long COVID, they provide evidence of the profound impact of Long COVID on national labour supply. Since the start of the pandemic, cumulatively 2.9 million people of working age (7% of the total) in the UK have had, or still have, Long ovid. This figure will continue to rise due to very high infection rates in the Omicron wave. Since the beginning of the pandemic, economic inactivity due to long-term sickness has risen by 120,900 among the working-age population, fuelling the UK’s current labour shortage. An estimated 80,000 people have left employment due to Long COVID. The authors argue that governments need to tackle the twin challenges to public health and labour supply and provide employment protection and financial support for individuals and firms affected by Long COVID.
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    An analysis of data from nearly 154 000 US veterans with SARS-CoV-2 infection provides a grim preliminary answer to the question: What are COVID-19’s long-term cardiovascular outcomes? The study, published in Nature Medicine by researchers at the Veterans Affairs (VA) St Louis Health Care System, found that in the year after recovering from the illness’s acute phase, patients had increased risks of an array of cardiovascular problems, including abnormal heart rhythms, heart muscle inflammation, blood clots, strokes, myocardial infarction, and heart failure. What’s more, the heightened risks were evident even among those who weren’t hospitalised with acute COVID-19.
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    Our health services face an unprecedented challenge in recovering from the pandemic and coping with ongoing waves of covid. With such demand for healthcare services from the general population and covid cases rising once more, some customers are bound to be angry or unhappy. But, as we recover from the pandemic, our handling of complaints must surely change, writes David Oliver in this BMJ article.
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    There was a national roll out of ‘COVID Virtual Wards’ (CVW) during England's second COVID-19 wave (Autumn 2020 – Spring 2021). These services used remote pulse oximetry monitoring for COVID-19 patients following discharge from hospital. A key aim was to enable rapid detection of patient deterioration. It was anticipated that the services would support early discharge, reducing pressure on beds. This study from Georghiou et al. evaluated the impact of the CVW services on hospital activity. The study found no evidence of early discharges or changes in readmissions associated with the roll out of COVID Virtual Wards across England.
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    As a clinician, Abraar Karan rarely sees a patient die from Covid-19 anymore. Those who end up in the hospital these days have benefited from the immense advances in clinical science that have brought us vaccines, monoclonal antibodies, and antivirals, and taught us how best to use these and other existing medications, such as steroids, to save patients’ lives. Collectively, this is an enormous accomplishment. It’s not, however, the end of the pandemic. The end of covid-19 will not be a clinical feat, but a public health one. We need public health innovation from our governments, writes Abraar in this BMJ opinion article.
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    The first COVID-19 vaccine outside a clinical trial setting was administered on 8 December 2020. To ensure global vaccine equity, vaccine targets were set by the COVID-19 Vaccines Global Access (COVAX) Facility and WHO. However, due to vaccine shortfalls, these targets were not achieved by the end of 2021. Watson et al. aimed to quantify the global impact of the first year of COVID-19 vaccination programmes. The study found that COVID-19 vaccination has substantially altered the course of the pandemic, saving tens of millions of lives globally. However, inadequate access to vaccines in low-income countries has limited the impact in these settings, reinforcing the need for global vaccine equity and coverage.
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