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Content Article"Some weeks ago my main worries were around my GCSEs. Now I hear every day about deaths from COVID-19." Teenager Zoya Aziz's parents are both doctors. In this blog in the Guardian, she gives a frank account of her life at the moment and her fears.
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Content ArticleCharts comparing COVID-19 deaths across countries are appearing daily in our newsfeeds. Done well, these international comparisons can help us to understand how different national strategies and policies have affected the spread and severity of COVID-19 outbreaks. But sometimes what is presented in these neat charts is not quite as straightforward as it seems, and can draw misleading conclusions. Excess deaths is a better measure than COVID-19 deaths of the pandemic’s total mortality. It measures the additional deaths in a given time period compared to the number usually expected, and does not depend on how COVID-19 deaths are recorded. This report, written by Holly Krelle, Claudia Barclay and Charles Tallack, summarises some of the ways of comparing countries to help use make sense of data on deaths.
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Content ArticleThe COVID-19 pandemic has affected some sections of the population more than others, and there are growing concerns that the UK’s minority ethnic groups are being disproportionately affected. Following evidence that minority groups are over-represented in hospitalisations and deaths from the virus, Public Health England has launched an inquiry into the issue. In the short term, ethnic inequalities are likely to manifest from the COVID-19 crisis in two main ways: through exposure to infection and health risks, including mortality; through exposure to loss of income. This report brings together evidence on the unequal health and economic impacts of COVID-19 on people in minority ethnic groups in the UK, presenting information on risk factors for each of the largest minority ethnic groups in England and Wales: white other, Indian, Pakistani, Bangladeshi, black African and black Caribbean. The analysis focuses on a limited but crucial set of risk factors in terms of both infection risk and economic vulnerability in the short term.
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Content ArticleThese guidance materials show how to use a COVID-19 swab testing kit. A significant number of results have shown as 'false negatives'. It is therefore important to follow the techniques described in these guidelines so that inaccurate results decrease and transmission rates can be reduced.
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Teamworking in an Acute Medical Unit during the COVID pandemic
Patient Safety Learning posted an article in Blogs
Calum McGregor shares with the Q Community practical tips and tools to help with team-working and staff wellbeing during the COVID-19 pandemic. Calum highlights some principles and examples which have helped with team-working in his Acute Medical Unit recently and in the past. -
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Working as a hospital cleaner during coronavirus
Patient Safety Learning posted an article in Blogs
A blog published in the Metro from a London hospital cleaner on how he is trying to keep himself safe during the coronavirus. "There are always fears you're going to get coronavirus but I try not to overthink it too much". -
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Independent Living: Will coronavirus transform accessibility?
Patient Safety Learning posted an article in Blogs
Philip Anderson’s able-bodied daughter, Lucy, joins Philip in sharing their perspectives of positive developments during the coronavirus lockdown, and their hopes for the future. Philip acquired a debilitating rare disease and has had to learn to live with remorseless erosion of his physical capacity, and increasing dependency. "I confess that when I was able-bodied, I was not aware of the extent of restrictions imposed by organisations on those with physical impairments. I’m only as disabled by the choices others make, rather than by loss of my motivation to live life ‘normally'. I hope that many who are experiencing some of our restrictions for the first time, will be passionate advocates for those with disability," says Philip in this thought-provoking article published in Independent Living. -
Content ArticleWe can use what we’ve learned from the crisis to make a 21st-century service fit for patients and staff alike, says Joel Schamroth in a blog to the Guardian. This pandemic is forcing us to rethink how we deliver healthcare. For too long patients have experienced fragmented services, administrative hurdles and unreliable lines of communication. The “patient experience” often remains an afterthought in the NHS, leading to worse health outcomes, and costing the NHS dearly. The lesson the public is learning is that money can be made available when it’s deemed to be important. In a matter of weeks COVID-19 has shown us that change is possible.
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Nightingale Frontline Leadership Support Service
Patient Safety Learning posted an article in Nurses
The Florence Nightingale Foundation has launched an NHS leadership support service, Nightingale Frontline. -
Content ArticleLetter to the Chief executives of all NHS trusts and foundation trusts, CCG Accountable Officers, GP practices and primary care networks, providers of community health services and NHS 111 providers from the NHS Chief Executive, Simon Stevens, and Chief Operating Officer, Amanda Pritchard, on the second phase of NHS response to COVID-19.
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Content ArticleThe purpose of this document is to provide designers and manufacturers of ventilators with overarching advice and guidance on the key themes for consideration and specific Human Factors and Ergonomic (HFE) issues in a period of “crisis management” requiring rapid design and production.
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Content ArticleSome degree of post-viral fatigue (PVF) or debility is a fairly common occurrence after any type of viral infection.Fortunately, in most cases, this is short lived and there is a steady return to normal health over a period of a few weeks.However, in some cases, a full return to normal health takes months rather than weeks.Additional symptoms may also develop, where the term post-viral fatigue syndrome (PVFS) may be a more appropriate diagnosis. The situation with persisting fatigue following COVID-19 infection appears to be rather more complicated than what happens with other viral illnesses.
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Content ArticleThis report, from the International Long Term Care Policy Network, provides examples of the policy and practice measures that have been adopted internationally to prevent COVID-19 infections in care homes and to mitigate their impact. This is a 'live' document that will be updated regularly and expanded as more information becomes available.
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Adult social care statistics: the potential for change
Patient Safety Learning posted an article in Blogs
The lack of funding in social care doesn’t only mean that services are unable to meet demand – there is also under-investment in data and analytics. Laura Schlepper explains why social care data matters and what would help to increase its potential. -
Content ArticleWith the ongoing Covid-19 crisis changing the way we live our lives and having a huge impact on the NHS, David Oliver speaks to the Nuffield Trust about what motivates him as a clinician at such a time, what the health service and the wider country need to learn from the past few months, and how pleased he is to be doing the job that he trained for.
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Content ArticleRoger Kline, Research Fellow at Middlesex University, highlights the three principles NHS organisations should take forward immediately to avoid unecessary staff deaths.
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Content ArticleAn analysis from Dr Rodney P. Jones, Lecturer in Healthcare Management.
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Content ArticleAs the coronavirus pandemic continues to spread around the world, the global shortage of personal protective equipment (PPE) becomes more acute. With a 3D printer, however, it is possible—while supplies last—for ordinary citizens to manufacture PPE and make them available to hospitals and clinics in their communities. Columbia University shows you how.
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Content ArticleThis is a guide from the British Psychological Society, for leaders and managers of healthcare services who will need to consider the wellbeing needs of all healthcare staff (clinical and non-clinical) as a result of the Coronavirus outbreak. It offers practical recommendations for how to respond at individual, management and organisational level involving the appropriate utilisation of expertise within their practitioner psychologist and mental health professionals and anticipates the psychological reactions over time, and what people may need to recovery psychologically from this.
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Content ArticlePatient Safety Learning interviews a critical care outreach nurse from America to find out the challenges frontline teams are facing during the coronavirus pandemic.
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'Cancer patients like me are just getting forgotten about'
Patient Safety Learning posted an article in Blogs
COVID-19 has led to hospitals suspending cancer treatment and deterred some from seeking care. Alan Mayberry, 67, was diagnosed with oesophageal cancer in January and was due to have four treatments and then surgery to remove the cancer. Unfortunately due to the coronavirus pandemic Alan's operation in early May has been cancelled because beds in the intensive care unit are in short supply. Read Alan's story (published in The Guardian). -
Content ArticleThese instructions are for patients who have been advised to undertake 'conscious proning'. Proning is the medical term for lying on your tummy or front. Proning has been proved to help with breathing in patient who have coronavirus.
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Coronavirus (COVID-19): reuse of medicines in a care home or hospice
Claire Cox posted an article in Guidance
Standard operating procedure on how to run a safe and effective medicines reuse scheme in a care home or hospice during the coronavirus outbreak. -
Content ArticlePartners across the NHS and social care are mobilising at scale in response to the developing COVID-19 pandemic. The AHSN Network's role, along with England’s 15 Academic Health Science Networks (AHSNs), is to support them by helping them take full advantage of the most relevant innovations and technologies that can improve care for patients and support our services in this challenging context. Nationally, the AHSN Network is part of a coordinated NHS response to identify and enable the implementation of technologies that respond to areas of highest priority action, in particular solutions for remote consultation and patient monitoring, diagnostics and point-of-care testing.
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Coronavirus and the future of telemedicine (April 2020)
Claire Cox posted an article in Coronavirus (COVID-19)
A conversation between WIRED editor in chief Nicholas Thompson and Carbon Health co-founder Caesar Djavaherian.
