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IN THE KNOW: Keeping Staff Informed
Volume 15 (13) April 2020
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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
How to look after your mental health during a pandemic
Coronavirus myths explored
STAFF HEALTH & WELLBEING
9 Desk And Chair Hacks To Make Working From Home More Bearable
How I Cope: Counting Colours On My Daily Walk Keeps Anxiety At Bay
Is It All A Dream? Why Coronavirus Makes Us Question Reality
How social media makes it difficult to identify real news
It’s bliss, arriving early – so why am I always late?
The new rules of lockdown: how to stay clean, safe and two metres away from everyone
'Start a daily routine – and make the weekends different': the isolation experts' guide to lockdown living
Social distancing and exercise: are active video games the solution?
Useful links
Patient.co.uk
NHS Website
Mental Health Foundation
World Health Organisation
MANX SKEET
Non-essential GP appointments stopped
Manx Solidarity Fund launched
Covid community support helpline is launched
No set time limits on exercise, but be sensible
All elective cancer surgery cancelled
Mental health charity launching 'Zoom Cafe'
Maternity care reorganised to protect women and babies
Local businesses helping to build essential medical equipment
Nobles Nurse Speaks Out at Fears Over Patient & Staff Safety
Ambulance service sets up Incident Command Centre
First patient dies from COVID-19 on Isle of Man
Douglas building to turn blue in tribute to key workers
Covid crisis prompts big changes to maternity care
Pharmacies change opening hours
Brain tumour charity continuing its support
Ramsey signs to indicate if support is needed
Number of corona cases tops 100
Virus much more widespread than test results show
HOT OFF THE PRESS
BBC News
(Asterisked items have been critically reviewed in Behind the Headlines. See below.)
Coronavirus: Self-isolation when you are affected by dementia
Coronavirus: Testing rolled out for frontline NHS staff
How the UK’s coronavirus epidemic compares to other countries
Coronavirus: What we still don't know about Covid-19
Coronavirus: Six months before UK 'returns to normal' - deputy chief
medical officer
Coronavirus: 20,000 former NHS staff return to fight virus, PM says
Coronavirus: Mercedes F1 to make breathing aid
Coronavirus: NHS Nightingale work for Virgin and EasyJet staff
Coronavirus: Pastor Mark McClurg released from hospital
Coronavirus: Healthy Scots urged to become volunteers
Coronavirus field hospital could open in two weeks
Coronavirus: Lifting prevention measures 'trial and error'
Coronavirus: Home abortions approved during outbreak
Blood test 'can check for more than 50 types of cancer'
Coronavirus: UK measures 'making a difference'
Coronavirus: Man told he must sleep on streets to get help
Abortion: New laws come into force in Northern Ireland
Coronavirus: Edinburgh hospital 'calm, controlled and ready'
Coronavirus: How Wales' approach differs from England
Coronavirus: GP surgery apology over 'do not resuscitate' form
Coronavirus: Greatest test since World War Two, says UN chief
Coronavirus: 13-year-old boy dies, says London hospital trust
Coronavirus: Potential drug treatment starts UK trials
Coronavirus: Are loss of smell and taste key symptoms?
Coronavirus: Hospitals urged to use lab space to test NHS staff
Coronavirus: Student doctors graduate early to join fight
Coronavirus: Southend Hospital staff could 'limit work' over
protective equipment
Coronavirus: Officials examine possible NI field hospital sites
NI could see 3,000 deaths in Covid-19 'first wave'
Temporary Glasgow coronavirus hospital 'may not be needed'
Coronavirus: Extra tests would have made a difference, says minister
Coronavirus: Home abortions allowed in Wales during pandemic
Coronavirus: Dental patients 'could lose teeth'
Coronavirus: NHS 111 has 1.7 million queries in 15 days
Coronavirus: Health experts 'frustrated' by low UK virus testing
Coronavirus: Expert panel to assess face mask use by public
Coronavirus: Should the UK use drones to disinfect public spaces?
Don't send rainbow pictures to Nightingale hospital, NHS says
Coronavirus: 'I was left gasping for air'
Coronavirus: 'I had to leave my son to help save lives'
Coronavirus: 'Anxiety rose after lockdown was introduced'
Coronavirus: City Hospital to host NI's first Nightingale
Coronavirus in Scotland: What is it like on the medical frontline?
Coronavirus: Cardiff hospital ready for 'huge wave'
Coronavirus: Where are the extra hospital beds in Wales going?
Coronavirus: Ill Swansea man 'stranded with dwindling drugs'
Coronavirus: Wrexham girl cannot travel for tumour treatment
Clap for Carers: UK applauds NHS staff and key workers
Coronavirus: Hospital phone charges 'scandalous'
Coronavirus: Doctors face agonising life-death decisions
Coronavirus: Nurse Areema Nasreen dies with Covid-19
Coronavirus: Nightingale Hospital opens at London's ExCel centre
Coronavirus: Test goal will take 'huge amount of work', says
Hancock
Coronavirus: Looking after your mental health during isolation
Coronavirus: Maternity services Causeway Hospital to stop
Coronavirus: NI 'too slow' on virus testing, says O'Neill
Coronavirus: Building work begins at temporary hospital at
Glasgow's SEC
Coronavirus: Why isn't Scotland advising the use of face masks?
Coronavirus: Morriston doctor predicts Easter peak for virus cases
Coronavirus: Donors urged to travel further to give blood
Lack of childcare 'forcing key workers to stay home'
Coronavirus: Worst-hit communities to receive charity boost
Coronavirus: Google reveals travel habits during the pandemic
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
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
NICE Evidence Resources Library Bulletin March 2020
NICE News Weekly Update on COVID 19
WHO Bulletin April 2020
Adult Protection & Safeguarding Domestic Violence
For people with an abusive partner, lockdown means captivity
Calls for funds to house domestic violence victims during Covid-19 outbreak
Addiction
Recovering addicts more at risk of relapse amid coronavirus, experts warn
Isolation will fuel gambling addiction. We must protect those at risk
Exercise addiction is a real mental health condition, but it is still poorly understood
Cardiovascular Disease
COVID-19 linked to cardiac injury, worse outcomes for patients with heart conditions
New quantum technology could help diagnose and treat heart condition
Study: Regular Tub Bathing Linked to Lower Risk of Death From Cardiovascular Disease
'Smart' devices effective in reducing adverse outcomes of heart condition
A 'cardiac patch with bioink' developed to repair heart
Critical Care
Covid-19 places critical care nurses ‘front and centre’ as leaders
Coronavirus patients in UK intensive care have 50% survival rate
Intensive care for coronavirus patients now limited to those 'reasonably certain' to survive, NHS London trust admits
NICE updates rapid COVID-19 guideline on critical care
Dental
Word of Mouth: March 2020
Dementia
Air pollution linked to dementia and cardiovascular disease
Coronavirus: Dementia patients experiencing increased levels of confusion during pandemic
Sleep apnea linked with Alzheimer's–like changes to the brain
Diabetes
Covid-19: diabetes clinicians set up social media account to help alleviate patients’ fears
Wearable device lets patients with type 2 diabetes safely use affordable insulin option
COVID-19 measures are “making a difference”
Top NHS expert urges people with diabetes to “stay home unless essential” amid COVID-19
Diet, Nutrition and Obesity
Soy-based foods may promote heart health
Coronavirus: How to eat healthily while in lockdown
Digital Health Technology
How robots can help combat COVID-19
Strike while the iron is hot: why we need to go further on digital health
Covid-19: NHS to trial digital passports to free up staff movement
‘World’s first’ multi-user conversational robots to support elderly healthcare
NHS staff given free access to mental health apps amid Covid-19 outbreak
Oxford University launches Covid-19 government response tracker
New digital service ‘to allow every UK GP surgery to offer remote consults’
End of Life Care
Coronavirus: Doctors urge 'difficult conversations' about death
End-of-life care during Covid-19: Tips for GPs
Hospices issue dire warning of closures as coronavirus sparks cutbacks in end of life care
Immunisation and Infection
A new way to study HIV's impact on the brain
Some COVID-19 patients still have coronavirus after symptoms disappear
How to boost immune response to vaccines in older people
Covid-19 – The tipping point?
Trial drug can significantly block early stages of COVID-19 in engineered human tissues
Phage capsid against influenza: Perfectly fitting inhibitor prevents viral infection
Mental Health
UK poll finds young people's mental health hit by coronavirus
Managers must improve mental health support during coronavirus crisis
Mental health and psychosocial considerations during Covid-19 outbreak
Mental wellbeing while staying at home
Specialised Services Quality Dashboards: mental health restrictive practice metric definitions for 2020/21
Neurology
Stroke Horizon Scanning Bulletin Volume 12 Issue 2
Cellular train track deformities shed light on neurological disease
How cognitive intelligence is a whole brain phenomenon
Understanding how the protein tau moves between neurons yields insight into possible treatments for neurodegenerative diseases
How dopamine drives brain activity
Engineers 3D print soft, rubbery brain implants
Oncology
Disasters can affect cervical cancer screening for years
Cancer tumors gain drug resistance by eating dead cells
Tumor cell type identified that makes prostate cancer more aggressive
Ophthalmology
Lipid helps heal the eye's frontline protection
Tell-tale conjunctival hemorrhages
Advances in production of retinal cells for treating blindness
Patient Experience
Panic attacks and sleepless nights: how coronavirus is affecting your mental health and what you can do about it
Patient Safety
Patient deaths linked to long-standing failings at trust’s maternity unit
Patient safety alert issued by NHS over oxygen machine risks
Pharmacology
Is the anti-flu drug Avigan effective in treating COVID-19?
Study helps to identify medications which are safe to use in treatment of COVID-19
Potential of using psychedelic drugs in psychiatry
Seniors and Aging
Longer lives not dependent on increased energy use
Falls Prevention Scanning Bulletin Volume 9 Issue 5
Caring for seniors during COVID-19 pandemic
Heavy drinking into older age adds 4 cm to waistline
Sexual Health
Microbiome may hold key to identifying HPV-infected women at risk for pre-cancer
Coronavirus and contraception: are sexual health clinics still open during lockdown?
Coronavirus: People urged ‘not to hook up’ for sex until lockdown is over
Experiences of undesired effects of hormonal contraception
Sleep
How Working Parents Can Prioritize Sleep
Why the coronavirus pandemic is wrecking your sleep – and how to sort it
Sports Medicine/Fitness
Regular exercise benefits immunity -- even in isolation
Cells must age for muscles to regenerate in muscle-degenerating diseases
Substance Abuse
Legal marijuana products too strong for pain relief
New research sheds light on potentially negative effects of cannabis
The placebo effect and psychedelic drugs: Tripping on nothing?
Surgery
Guidance for surgeons working during the COVID-19 pandemic
Spina bifida surgery before birth restores brain structure
Women’s Health
Weight gain may reduce risk of breast cancer before menopause
Consuming extra calories can help exercising women avoid menstrual disorders
World Health Organisation
Information sharing on COVID-19
New WHO Guide to help countries expand access to essential medicines
WHO releases guidelines to help countries maintain essential health services during the COVID-19 pandemic
WHO and Rakuten Viber fight COVID-19 misinformation with interactive chatbot
SOCIAL AND COMMUNITY CARE
Social Care
Exc: Five areas to be examined by PRSB as it sets standards for social care
Frontline master’s pass rate misses DfE target for latest cohort to complete programme
‘Inadequate’ authority must speed up improvements for children in care, warns Ofsted
Covid-19: AMHPs’ protective equipment needs not sufficiently considered, warn sector leaders
Covid-19: lack of pandemic protocols leaves social work playing catch-up, warns BASW chief
Social worker one of two employees at council to die after contracting Covid-19
Coronavirus: government gives PSWs critical role in council decisions to depart from Care Act
Three ways social workers can support children in care
Tool to match temporarily registered social workers with roles during coronavirus crisis launches
Placements closing, online lectures and uncertain futures: Covid-19’s impact on social work students
Sharing lives and self-isolating
How to support people with long-term health conditions living in their own homes self-isolating
‘As soon a crisis occurs, it can get unmanageable’: what children’s social workers said about caseloads
Social work caseloads: practitioners in the North of England feeling the greatest strain
More than 70% of children’s social workers struggled with caseloads on eve of Covid-19 crisis, survey reveals
Social work teams depleting due to coronavirus, warns BASW as it calls for priority testing for practitioners
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
NHS support via text message for people with symptoms of Covid-19
NHS to open two more new hospitals to fight coronavirus
Health and care: the first 100 days of the new government
England’s most senior nurse calls out unacceptable behaviour
towards NHS staff
Why do doctors in the dock face a double jeopardy?
NHS volunteer responders: 250,000 target smashed with three
quarters of a million committing to volunteer
Covid-19: Doctors still at “considerable risk” from lack of PPE, BMA
warns
Prevent, detect, respond: How community health workers can help
in the fight against covid-19
Automatic NHS visa extensions a welcome step from Government
Covid-19 response: PSNC negotiations action list
Covid-19: additional funding allocations
Covid-19: NHS datasets ‘not sophisticated enough’ to flag high risk
patients
Covid-19: return to practice learning plan
Covid-19: tips for housing sector on end of life care
Guidance for parents and carers on supporting children and young
people’s mental health and wellbeing during the coronavirus (Covid-
19) outbreak
Guidance for the public on the mental health and wellbeing aspects
of coronavirus (Covid-19)
Guidance on social distancing for everyone in the UK
Technical specifications for personal protective equipment (PPE)
Using machine learning in diagnostic services: a report with
recommendations from CQC’s regulatory sandbox
Blood control safety cannula and needle thoracostomy for tension
pneumothorax
Care Act easements: guidance for local authorities
Children of the pandemic: policies needed to support children during
the Covid-19 crisis
Covid-19: doctors’ visas are automatically extended for one year
Covid-19: Hospitals can remove 15% cap on testing of NHS staff
Covid-19: Use radiotherapy only if “unavoidable,” says NICE
Interruption of high flow nasal oxygen during transfer
Joint statement on expanding the nursing and midwifery workforce
in the Covid-19 pandemic
Medication beliefs and use of medication lists – is there a
connection? Results from a before-and-after study in Germany
New Covid-19 assessment tool in Patientrack to help staff intervene
early
Public satisfaction with the NHS rose sharply in 2019
PATIENT INFORMATION
COVID-19 coronavirus: when will we have a vaccine?
When should you worry about a fussy eater?
Covid-19: Rules on sharing confidential patient information are relaxed in England
QUALITY IMPROVEMENT AGENDA
Why healthcare leadership should embrace quality improvement
EVIDENCE BASED PRACTICE
Antibiotic prophylaxis for operative vaginal delivery
Health workers’ perceptions and experiences of using mHealth technologies to deliver primary healthcare services: a qualitative evidence
synthesis
Coronavirus (COVID-19): evidence relevant to critical care
Coronavirus (COVID-19): infection control and prevention measures
Coronavirus (COVID-19): effective options for quitting smoking during the pandemic
Treatments for the prevention of Sudden Unexpected Death in Epilepsy (SUDEP)
Coronavirus (COVID-19): effective options for quitting smoking during the pandemic
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.
National Institute for Health Research (NIHR) Health Technology Assessment
Annual Report 2018/2019
Life saving breathing aid developed to keep COVID-19 patients out of intensive care
NIHR launches new Centre for Engagement and Dissemination
New NIHR Public Health Research (PHR) Programme Director appointed
UK’s top doctors urge recruitment of Covid-19 patients for vital scientific research
DoH Press Releases/New Publications
Government launches new drive on coronavirus tests for frontline NHS staff
Coronavirus (COVID-19): letter from the Secretary of State to the social care workforce
New advice to support mental health during coronavirus outbreak
First new ventilators to roll off production line this weekend as industry answers call to step up manufacturing
New personal protective equipment (PPE) guidance for NHS teams
NHS to benefit from £13.4 billion debt write-off
Health Secretary sets out plan to carry out 100,000 coronavirus tests a day
£300 million announced for community pharmacies to support them during coronavirus outbreak
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