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IN THE KNOW: Keeping Staff Informed
Volume 14 (44) November 2019
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In this issue:
IN THE SPOTLIGHT
MANX SKEET
STAFF HEALTH & WELLBEING
HOT OFF THE PRESS
PUBLIC HEALTH
EVIDENCE BASED PRACTICE
SOCIAL AND COMMUNITY CARE
HEALTH MANAGEMENT
PATIENT INFORMATION
LIBRARY BITS AND PIECES
IN THE SPOTLIGHT
E. coli outbreak: CDC warn about romaine lettuce from Salinas, CA
STAFF HEALTH & WELLBEING
Do you take hours to make a simple decision? You may have Fobo
How to blow your nose properly
Do You Have Visual Fatigue? Here's What To Do About It
Playing board games may help protect thinking skills in old age
There is no downside to a day trip – just don’t call it a 'daycation'
Useful links
Patient.co.uk
NHS Website
Mental Health Foundation
World Health Organisation
MANX SKEET
World record attempt for male yoga session
Health fears must be allayed
2020 will mark 'Year of the Nurse'
Schools issued with flu and sickness advice
Inspirational girl raises thousands for children's ward
Tatty the Teddy celebrates a 100th anniversary with young patients
Concern over funding for new domestic abuse law
New cause helps those with additional needs
Sleep guru shares advice with Standard Bank Intl. staff
HOT OFF THE PRESS
BBC News
(Asterisked items have been critically reviewed in Behind the Headlines. See below.)
Unison healthcare workers to begin strike action
GPs vote to reduce patient home visits
Male breast cancer: Men warned to check for symptoms
Cancer immunotherapy drug 'less toxic and prolongs life'
Living near busy road can stunt children's lung growth, study says
Lassa fever 'at risk' Britons sent home from Sierra Leone
Cancer survivors 'have higher heart risk'
New unit for 'forgotten' patients with alcohol related brain damage
Norwich hospital: Mother of stillborn baby raises money for suite
Indian doctors remove 7.4kg kidney from patient
Our son’s final days
Outpatients' 12-week waiting time target missed
Call for mental health support for young offenders
Milly Main: Hospital infection spiked at time of child's death
Violence in children's relationships 'a public health issue'
What we can all learn from this deathbed photo
Breast cancer: Patient creates app to help with treatment
Autism: 'Unprecedented' demand creates long appointment waits
Ketamine may reduce heavy drinkers' craving
'Hundreds more cases' in Shropshire maternity scandal
'Proof NHS at risk under US trade deal' - Labour
Homeless people 'should be allowed to stay with their dogs'
Domestic abuse: Big rise in reports to police in Wales
'I was put into care home for elderly at 46'
General election 2019: Row over Labour's 'NHS for sale' claim
Immunotherapy offers hope for men with prostate cancer
More than 300,000 in Northern Ireland waiting to see consultants
Wrexham 'prehabilitation' programme helps patients get in shape
Smartphone 'addiction': Young people 'panicky' when denied mobiles
'We try our best as nurses, but it's not enough'
Scale of Shropshire maternity failings 'may never be known'
HIV, my baby and me: 'I was 17 years old when I was diagnosed'
'Milly would be here' had Glasgow hospital followed advice
Vascular services: Calls for review of north Wales changes
Useful Health Links
NHS Website: A-Z of health conditions
NHS Website
Check NHS standards near you
Cancer Help UK
British Heart Foundation
Health and Care Professions Council
Mental Health Foundation
General Medical Council
Nursing and Midwifery Council
Care Quality Commission
NICE
NHS Scotland
Health in Wales
NI Direct
Clinical trials information
Diabetes UK
British Lung Foundation
National Obesity Forum
Your health, your choices
Behind the Headlines
Do you believe everything you read? The NHS Knowledge Service provides a critical view of current health related news items to critically
analyse their sources, content and findings.
Air pollution may be linked to increased glaucoma risk
Ketamine dose to reduce heavy drinking shows promise
Air pollution linked to increased hospital admissions for kidney disease and sepsis
Bulletins
(click to open)
Bulletin for clinical commissioning groups (CCGs)
Chief Nursing Bulletin
Chief Scientific Officer Bulletin
Compassion in Practice strategy and 6Cs Live!
Liaison and Diversion Bulletin
Pharmacy and Medicines Bulletin
Primary Care Bulletin
Specialised Commissioning Stakeholder Bulletin
Revalidation Matters
Liaison and Diversion Bulletin
Specialised Commissioning Stakeholder Bulletin
PUBLIC HEALTH
Health e-News Bulletin/NLH Public Health Newsletter
NHS In Touch Issue 103 November 2019
Adult Protection & Safeguarding Domestic Violence
Fall in domestic abuse files sent to prosecutors despite rise in recorded crimes
Survivors stand up, speak out and lead the way to strengthen domestic abuse services in Cheshire East
Allergies
Real or artificial Christmas trees — which are worse for allergies?
There's such a thing as having a 'social allergy' to someone you dislike. Here's how to keep the peace, no matter what situation you're in.
Cardiovascular Disease
Peas and beans: Can they improve heart health?
Cancer patients, survivors face increased risk of heart disease deaths
'Heart heroes' launch campaign drive to tackle cardiovascular disease
Heart attack protein may raise early death risk
Dental
Experts call for more active prevention of tooth decay for children's teeth
Word of Mouth November 2019
Gum disease doubles stroke risk, according to new study
Unum Dental: Early Diagnosis of Mouth Cancer
Dementia
Dementia research investment needs to reflect the enormous cost of dementia care
Skiers have lower incidence of depression and vascular dementia -- but not Alzheimer's
Cutting neurodegeneration associated with dementia, in animal models
Extra virgin olive oil may protect against various dementias
Diabetes
Helper protein worsens diabetic eye disease
Drinking coffee can cut risk of type 2 diabetes and high blood pressure, research finds
Welsh school recognised for ‘fantastic’ diabetes care for students
Variability in Sleep Duration May Affect Blood Glucose Control in Diabetes
Diet, Nutrition and Obesity
Locking up fats in CAGEs to reduce obesity
The CHIRPY DRAGON intervention in preventing obesity in Chinese primary-school--aged children: A cluster-randomised controlled trial
Digital Health Technology
Does tracking your sleep actually help you sleep better? We asked an expert
Google Health unveils EHR data aggregation tool for clinicians
End of Life Care
End of Life Care Horizon Scanning Bulletin Volume 10 Issue 8
Review: The understanding of spirituality and the potential role of spiritual care in end-of-life and palliative care: a meta-study of qualitative
research
Palliative and end-of-life care and junior doctors': a systematic review and narrative synthesis
Immunisation and Infection
Dangerous bacteria communicate to avoid antibiotics
Wound healing in mucous tissues could ward off AIDS
How dormant herpes springs back to life
Antibiotic-resistant bacteria more prevalent in device-related infections
Humans co-evolved with immune-related diseases -- and it's still happening
Learning Disability and Challenging Behaviour
Mutations in emerging autism gene tied to distinct traits
Men’s Health
Men Are Putting Up With Pain Or Illness Instead Of Seeing A GP – Why?
A Look Back at Movember
What to know about diphallia (double penis)
Vasectomy side effects: Everything you need to know
Mental Health
Dissecting connections between chronic stress, inflammation and depression
How personality traits affect the placebo response
New mental health phone line launched to help people access support nationwide
What to know about lithium toxicity
Neurology
Board games may stave off cognitive decline
Microvascular ischemic disease: What to know
Obstetrics
Lower mortality from induction of labor at 41 weeks
UTI in pregnancy: Everything you need to know
Oncology
Using artificial intelligence to determine whether immunotherapy is working
Anal cancer mortality rates have more than doubled in the US
Polatuzumab Vedotin: Honing in on Relapsed or Refractory Diffuse Large B-Cell Lymphoma
Paediatrics
High amounts of screen time begin as early as infancy
Prenatal opioid exposure may alter brain function in babies
How can we protect our children’s health from the climate emergency?
Patient Experience
Through my eyes: Living with shoulder arthritis
Patient Safety
Patient safety fears as vast majority of GPs predict NHS winter crisis
One third of UK doctors may suffer from workplace ’burnout’
Urgent and emergency care: patient safety and quality issues
Pharmacology
We love coffee, tea, chocolate and soft drinks so much, caffeine is literally in our blood
Using fungi to search for medical drugs
New flu drug drives drug resistance in influenza viruses
Seniors and Aging
Differentiating between dementia, delirium and depression in older people
Rapamycin has anti-aging effect on human skin
Understanding and managing depression in older people
Sexual Health
Assessing different HPV vaccines and vaccine schedules in adolescent girls and boys
As The Morning After Pill Goes On Sale For £3, Here's Where You Can Get It For Free
Sleep
Lack of sleep may explain why poor people get more heart disease
Science underestimated dangerous effects of sleep deprivation
Sleep deprivation 'triples the number of lapses in attention'
Substance Abuse
Exercise: Another Potential Option for Substance Abuse Disorder
Addressing the context and consequences of substance use, misuse, and dependence: A global imperative
One ketamine shot could help heavy drinkers cut down
Surgery
What to know about salpingectomy
What to know about a tracheostomy
Royal Cornwall Hospital deploys AI tool for secure surgical videos
Vaping/Smoking
Vaping poses serious threat to children
Four children's deaths linked to smoking at home and during pregnancy in County Durham and Darlington
Women’s Health
British Menopause Society further update on HRT supply shortages (26 November 2019)
How Does IVF Actually Make Your Body Feel?
World Health Organisation
Medical facilities coping well in Albania following earthquake
New WHO-led study says majority of adolescents worldwide are not sufficiently physically active, putting their current and future health at risk
Dead and injured following attacks on Ebola responders in the Democratic Republic of the Congo
Wound Management
Do obesity and smoking impact healing after wrist fracture surgery?
Turning to old remedies for new health challenges: Super-bugs
SOCIAL AND COMMUNITY CARE
Back in the ‘too difficult’ box: social care and the manifestos
Future of children’s services company to be decided next month
Dramatic rise in child cruelty and neglect in Northamptonshire
How the family safeguarding model is helping to transform practice
Return to social work scheme relaunched to lure 200 back to profession
Safe, supported and happy to go to work: how local authorities can retain their social workers
What can we learn from young people’s views on online sexual harm?
Thousands of girl gang members are trapped in a cycle of violence and abuse
‘My tank was empty; I fell into crisis’: how a social work lecturer became a missing person
Almost half of principal social workers spending two days or less on PSW role, survey finds
Key Resources
Social Care TV
e–Learning
Social Care Online
Research Register for Social Care
Social Care Research Ethics Committee
All SCIE resources
HEALTH MANAGEMENT
BT partners up with NHS Blood and Transplant to create digital
network
GPs call for BMA to take “urgent action” on drug shortages
NHS England re-opens HSSF to LHCR and population health suppliers
NHS performance and waiting times: priorities for the next
government
Pensions crisis: leaders call for long term solutions
The ecology of program director leadership: power relationships and
characteristics of effective program directors
Air pollution report shows health impact
Improving together: collaboration needs to start with regulators
Surreal, unlikely, curious: the voters’ choice on health
Let’s do our duty: Top nurse leads NHS staff flu jab drive
Leading for integrated care: 'If you think competition is hard, you
should try collaboration'
NHS England and NHS Improvement Board Meeting in Common – 28
November 2019
Abraar Karan: Medicine’s power problem
Bridging worlds: How public health directors are tackling the growth
agenda
Nursing shortages forcing NHS to rely on less qualified staff – report
Health unions seek assurances after leak on trade talks and NHS
‘It's the relationship you develop with them’: emotional intelligence
in nurse leadership. A qualitative study
Increased maximum sentences for assaulting nurses
Latest vacancy figures more evidence NHS teams under intolerable
strain
The King's Fund comments on new GP workforce figures and NHS
vacancy data
Is digital and social inclusion key to transformational change?
PATIENT INFORMATION
Why can't I get a doctor's appointment? Solving the complex issue of GP access
Epilepsy Action resource is Just for kids
How to take care of chapped lips this winter
Event report – Health Information for Children and Young People
EVIDENCE BASED PRACTICE
BMJ Evidence Updates
Double trouble: ciclosporin–simvastatin coinduced rhabdomyolysis
Proteinase 3 (PR3)-antineutrophil cytoplasmic antibody (ANCA)-associated vasculitic neuropathy in diffuse cutaneous systemic sclerosis: a rare
duo
Efficacy of colistimethate sodium as local application in necrotising fasciitis
Intussusception of a large circumferential caecal adenoma with ileocaecal valve consumption
Synovial sarcoma mimicking a traumatic pseudoaneurysm in the upper extremity
Intracranial invasive mycosis mimicking hepatic encephalopathy in a patient with cirrhosis
Platypnoea and orthodeoxia in the hepatopulmonary syndrome
Development of pyogenic granuloma with strong vascular endothelial growth factor receptor-2 expression during ramucirumab treatment
Escherichia hermannii as the sole cause of osteomyelitis in a patient with an open tibial shaft fracture
Internal herniation following laparoscopic gastric bypass: addressing the mesoclosure technique
Rhabdomyosarcoma involving maxilla mimicking gingival enlargement: A diagnostic challenge
Atypical presentation of Clostridioides difficile pseudomembranous colitis with laboratory rejection of stool specimen
Plantar vein thrombosis provoked by mechanical strain to the foot: a rare cause of plantar heel pain
Pancreatic metastases to the colon: an unusual cause of colonic obstruction
Newly discovered variant of oesophageal atresia: ‘Type Y’
The impact of individual recovery expectations on pain, limitations in activities and return to work in low back pain
Antibiotics for bacterial infection in the urine in pregnancy when there are no symptoms
Animal-assisted therapy for people with dementia
Do psychological interventions work for people with both depression and substance use disorders?
Using positive expiratory pressure physiotherapy to clear the airways of people with cystic fibrosis
Plasma transfusions before major surgery (other than heart surgery) or invasive procedures, to prevent bleeding
Falls interventions in multiple sclerosis
NICE Clinical Knowledge Summaries provides primary care practitioners with a readily accessible summary of the current evidence base and
practical guidance on best practice in respect of over 300 common and/or significant primary care presentations.
The service is being regularly maintained and upgraded as and when significant new evidence emerges and up to 10 new topics will be added
each year. You can access the service here.
To suggest a new topic, please contact us.
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