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Monthly Archives: October 2016
An Emerging Consensus on the State of NHS and Social Care Funding? (BBC News / Health Foundation / King’s Fund)
The Health Select Committee, chaired by Dr Sarah Wollaston, have addressed the much-debated question about whether the NHS has enough funding for sustainability. The main concern is about cuts to local authority budgets for social care (and public health). The … Continue reading
Posted in Acute Hospitals, Age UK, Alzheimer's Society, BBC News, Charitable Bodies, Commissioning, Community Care, Department of Health, For Doctors (mostly), For Nurses and Therapists (mostly), For Researchers (mostly), For Social Workers (mostly), Health Foundation, In the News, Integrated Care, King's Fund, National, NHS, NHS England, Quick Insights, Standards, Statistics, UK, Universal Interest
Tagged Ageing Population, Alan Johnson MP, Alastair Campbell, Andrew Mitchell MP, Anita Charlesworth: Director of Research and Economics at the Health Foundation, Anita Charlesworth: Health Foundation, BBC Health News, Commons Health Select Committee, Elderly Failed By Shameful Care System (Allegation From Age UK and Alzheimer’s Society), Equality 4 Mental Health, Financial Constraints, Financial Context, Financial Difficulties, Financial Performance, Financial Pressure in the NHS, Financial Pressure on Hospitals, Financial Pressures, Financial Resilience, Financial Sustainability in the NHS, Funding Challenges, Funding Deficits, Health Select Committee (HSC), House of Commons Health Select Committee, Liberal Democrat MP Norman Lamb: Former Health Minister (Coalition Government), Litigation Risks For Councils: Failure to Meet Statutory Duties Under Care Act, Mental Health Funding, Mental Health Services, NHS Expenditure, NHS Financial Leadership, NHS Funding, NHS Funding and Rationing, NHS Funding Gap, NHS Mental Health Services, NHS Overspends, NHS Performance, Open Letter From Sarah Wollaston of Commons Health Select Committee to Rt Hon Philip Hammond MP (October 2016), Rationing, Rationing Care, Rationing: Limiting the NHS, Richard Murray: Director of Policy at the King’s Fund, Rt Hon John Reid MP, Rt Hon. Alan Milburn, Rt Hon. Frank Dobson MP, Rt Hon. Kenneth Clarke QC MP, Rt Hon. Patricia Hewitt, Rt Hon. Stephen Dorrell: Former Secretary of State for Health (1995-1997), Sarah Wollaston: Chair of the House of Commons Health Select Committee, Submissions Ahead of Chancellor Philip Hammond's Autumn Statement (2016), Thinking Like a Patient and Acting Like a Taxpayer, Upward Spending Pressures
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Building Age-Friendly Cities (Houses of Parliament Library POST Note PN 539)
Summary A recent Parliamentary Office of Science and Technology (POST) note on “Creating age friendly cities” considers the challenges involved in making cities more “age-friendly”. It examines how housing, transport and outdoor spaces etc. might be re-designed to promote independence … Continue reading
Posted in Assistive Technology, Commissioning, Community Care, For Researchers (mostly), Housing, Integrated Care, Management of Condition, National, Non-Pharmacological Treatments, Person-Centred Care, Quick Insights, Standards, UK, Universal Interest
Tagged Access to Green Space, Access to Urban Green Spaces, Age Friendly Homes, Age-Friendly Cities, Age-Friendly Cities (WHO), Age-Friendly Cities and Communities, Ageing Population, Attitudes to Ageing, Attitudes to Older People, Building Age-Friendly Cities (POST Note PN 539), Built Environment, Challenges in Creation of Age-Friendly Cities, Essential Features of Age-Friendly Cities, Global Age Friendly Cities (WHO), Green Spaces, Health Benefits of Green Space, Houses of Parliament, Infrastructure Costs, Local Planning, Nuffield Foundation Flowers Fellowship, Outdoor Spaces, Parliamentary Office of Science & Technology, Parliamentary Office of Science & Technology (POST), Parliamentary Office of Science and Technology (POST), Physical Environment, POST: Parliamentary Office of Science & Technology, Public Transport, Transport, Transport and Mobility, Transportation Infrastructure, Urban Green Space and Trees
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MRC DRI Momentum Awards £4.3 Million For UK Dementia Research (MRC)
Summary Momentum Awards, which support the UK Dementia Research Institute (DRI). Today’s announcement involves six universities being awarded £4.3 million from the MRC to help develop UK-based dementia research. Judging from the press release, there appears to be a serious … Continue reading
Posted in Commissioning, For Researchers (mostly), In the News, National, Quick Insights, UK, Universal Interest
Tagged Autism, Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD), Biomarkers, Biomarkers Research Programmes, Bioscience Careers, Cardiff University, Computational Approaches to Discovery of Behavioural Signatures, Cross-Disciplinary Interfaces Exploring Emerging Scientific Opportunities, Dementia Research, Dementia Research Careers, Dementia Research Institute (DRI), Dr Kathryn Adcock: Head of Neurosciences and Mental Health at MRC, Epilepsy, Frontiers in Neuroscience, High Risk-High Payoff Research Projects (sic) [For Whom?], Human Brain Cell Types, Immune Pathways and Stem Cell (iPSC) Models of Neurodegenerative Disease, Institute of Psychiatry Psychology and Neuroscience (IoPPN), Kings College London, Maurice Wohl Clinical Neuroscience Institute, Momentum Awards, MRC Centre for Neurodevelopmental Disorders (King’s College London), MRC DRI Momentum Awards, MRC: Medical Research Council, Neurodegenerative Disease Research, Neurodegenerative Diseases, Neurodegenerative Disorders, Neurodegenerative Research, Neurodevelopmental Disorders: Abnormal Brain Development, Neuroinflammation, Neuroinflammation Research Cluster, Neuroscience, Neurovascular Dysfunction, Potential Drug Targets, Professor Oscar Marín: Director of Department of Developmental Neurobiology at Institute of Psychiatry Psychology and Neuroscience (IoPPN), Proteostasis, Proteostasis Dysfunction, Pump-Priming (Dementia Research), Recruitment of Research Leaders / Rising Stars, Research and Development, Research and Innovation, Research Careers, Research Commitment, Research Culture, Research Funding, Schizophrenia, Sensor Platform for Healthcare in a Residential Environment (SPHERE), Signalling Pathways, Treatment and Prevention Targets, UK Dementia Research Institute, University of Bristol, University of Edinburgh, University of Manchester, University of Oxford
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Choosing Wisely: A New Review of Overdiagnosis and Overtreatment (BBC News / Academy of Medical Royal Colleges)
Summary Continuing the debate concerning avoidable overuse in medical care, the Academy of Medical Royal Colleges has drawn-up a list of forty treatments which are thought to confer little or no benefit to patients. Full Text Link Reference Doctors name … Continue reading
Posted in BBC News, Commissioning, For Doctors (mostly), For Nurses and Therapists (mostly), For Researchers (mostly), In the News, Integrated Care, Management of Condition, National, NHS, Person-Centred Care, Personalisation, Practical Advice, Quick Insights, Standards, Statistics, UK, Universal Interest
Tagged Academy of Medical Royal Colleges (AoMRC), Achieving Better Value, BBC Health News, Better Value, Better Value Healthcare, Better Value in the NHS, Choosing Wisely, Choosing Wisely Campaign, Choosing Wisely in the NHS, CIPFA, Clinical Responsibility for Patients (Choosing Wisely and New Deal), False Positives, Financial Sustainability in the NHS, Forty Treatments With Little or No Benefit For Patients (Academy of Medical Royal Colleges), Great Prostate Mistake, Great Prostate Mistake (PSA sic Promoting Stress and Anxiety), Harms From Overdiagnosis, Harms of Too Much Medicine, Health Screening Programmes, Improving Patient Safety, Improving Prescribing Practice, Improving Value in Diagnostic Services, Lean and Quality Improvement, Less is More, Lowering Costs, Medical Overuse, Overdiagnosis and Overtreatment, Overuse of Diagnostic or Monitoring Tests / Procedures, Overuse of Medication, Patient Harms, Patient Safety, Protecting Resources and Promoting Value, Reducing Expenditure, Reducing Inappropriate Laboratory Investigations, Reducing Inappropriate Polypharmacy, Reducing Prescribing Costs, Reducing Productive Waste, Reducing Waste in the NHS, Screening Programmes, Screening Tests, Too Much Medicine, Unnecessary Tests, Value for Money, Value Improvement
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Routine Soccer Heading Diminishes Memory Capacity in the Short-Term? (BBC News / EBioMedicine)
Summary Researchers at the University of Stirling have been able to demonstrate that heading a football twenty times during routine soccer practice can result in impaired cognition and memory; with performance being reduced by 41% – 67%, albeit with these … Continue reading
Posted in BBC News, For Doctors (mostly), For Nurses and Therapists (mostly), For Researchers (mostly), In the News, NHS Choices, Patient Information, Quick Insights, Scotland, UK, Universal Interest
Tagged Awareness of Potential Risks, Awareness Raising, BBC Radio Scotland, BBC Scotland News, Behind the Headlines, Brain Injury Healthcare Technology Cooperative: National Institute for Health Research (NIHR), Chronic Traumatic Encephalopathy (CTE), Cognitive Changes Following Routine Soccer Heading, Corticomotor Inhibition (Possible Indicator of Sub-Concussion), Dementia Risk Factors, Dementia Risk Prevention, Dementia Risk Reduction, Department of Neuropathology: Queen Elizabeth University Hospital (Glasgow), EBioMedicine (Journal), Faculty of Health and Life Sciences: Northumbria University, Football, Glasgow and Institute of Neuroscience and Psychology: University of Glasgow, Gordon Smith: Former Scottish Football Association Chief Executive, Heading the Ball, Heading the Ball (Soccer / Soccer Practice), Health and Exercise Sciences Research Group: University of Stirling, Lifestyle Risk Factors, Modifiable Risk Factors, National Institute for Health Research (NIHR): Brain Injury Healthcare Technology Cooperative, Newcastle upon Tyne, Northumbria University, Psychology: University of Stirling, Risk Factors, Routine Soccer Heading, Soccer Heading, Sub-Concussive Head Impacts, Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation (TMS), University of Glasgow, University of Stirling
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