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Tag Archives: NHS Blood and Transplant (NHSBT)
Reviewing the Current – and Likely Future – State of the NHS (NAO / Dods)
Summary The National Audit Office (NAO) has published a “Short Guide to the Department of Health” as one of their collection of short guides about different government departments. This guide includes a wealth of statistical information in summary form, concerning … Continue reading
Posted in Commissioning, CQC: Care Quality Commission, Department of Health, For Doctors (mostly), For Nurses and Therapists (mostly), For Researchers (mostly), For Social Workers (mostly), Health Education England (HEE), In the News, Integrated Care, Local Interest, Mental Health, National, National Audit Office, NHS, NHS England, Public Health England, Quick Insights, Standards, Statistics, UK, Universal Interest
Tagged 5YFV: NHS Five Year Forward View, A&E Attendances and Emergency Admissions, A&E Four-Hour Wait Standard, A&E Quality Indicators, A&E Waiting Times and Activity, Access Targets, Access Times for Planned Treatments, Access to Hospital Care, Access to Mental Health Services, Access to Urgent and Emergency Care, Accident & Emergency, Accident and Emergency, Accident and Emergency Attendances, Accident and Emergency Departments, Accident and Emergency: NHS Performance Indicators, Acute Care, Acute Hospital Care, Adult Social Care, Adult Social Care for People with Complex Needs, Adult Social Care Funding, Adult Social Care in England, Adult Social Care Services, Ageing and Society, Ageing Population, Arm’s Length Bodies (Department of Health's ALBs), Avoidable Mortality, Bed Availability and Occupancy: NHS Performance Indicators, Bed Days, Bed Occupancy, Better Care Fund (BCF), Cancelled Elective Operations, Cancelled Operations: NHS Performance Indicators, Care Act 2014, Care Quality Commission (CQC), Costs and Cost Pressures, Delayed Discharges, Delayed Transfers of Care, Delayed Transfers of Care: NHS Performance Indicators, Delayed Transfers of Care: NHS Statistical Trends, Dementia Risk Prevention, Dementia Risk Reduction, Diagnostic Waiting Times, Diagnostics Waiting Times And Activity, Dods Research, Dr Martin McShane: NHS England’s Director for People With Long Term Conditions, Economic Sustainability, Efficiency Savings, Emergency Admissions, Emergency and Urgent Care Services, Emergency Attendances, Emergency Bed Use, Emergency Care, Emergency Departments, Emergency Services, Financial Constraints, Financial Context, Financial Difficulties, Financial Performance, Financial Planning, Financial Position of NHS Trusts, Financial Pressure in the NHS, Financial Pressures, Financial Resilience, Financial Sustainability in the NHS, Five Year Forward View (NHS England), Four-Hour A&E Waiting Time Target, Funding Deficits, Funding Gap (NHS), General Hospitals, Health and Social Care, Health and Social Care Delivery Models, Health and Social Care Information Centre (HSCIC), Health and Social Care Integration, HEE: Health Education England, Hospital Activity and Capacity, Hospital Emergency Departments, Hospital Productivity, Hospital Waiting Times, HSCIC: Health and Social Care Information Centre, Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority, Human Tissue Authority, Integration of Health and Social Care, Integration of Health and Social Care for Older People, Key Performance Indicators, Local Education and Training Boards (LETBs), Low Morale, Mandate from the Government to NHS England, Market Oversight, Medicines and Healthcare Products Regulatory Agency, Medicines and Healthcare Products Regulatory Agency (MHRA), Monitor, National Audit Office (NAO), National Clinical Assessment Service (NCAS), National Institute for Biological Standards and Control, National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE), National Institute for Health Care Excellence, New Architecture of the NHS, New Models of Care, New Models of Service, NHS Blood and Transplant, NHS Blood and Transplant (NHSBT), NHS Business Services Authority, NHS Challenges and New Solutions, NHS Efficiency Savings, NHS England (Formerly the NHS Commissioning Board), NHS Five Year Forward View, NHS Foundation Trust Performance, NHS Foundation Trusts, NHS Foundation Trusts (NHSFTs), NHS Funding, NHS Funding Gap, NHS Health and Social Care Act (2012), NHS Health and Social Care Information Centre, NHS Health Research Authority, NHS Litigation Authority (NHSLA), NHS Performance, NHS Performance Indicators, NHS Reform, NHS Services, NHS Sustainability, NHS TDA: NHS Trust Development Authority, NHS Trust Development Authority, NHS Trust Development Authority (NHS TDA), NHS Trust Financial Deficits, NHS Waiting Times, Obesity, Obesity and Diabetes, Obesity Epidemic, Obesity in the UK, Obesity is the New Smoking, Obesity Risk Factor, Obesity the New Smoking, Obesity Time-Bomb, Organisational Challenges, Oversight and Monitoring, Performance Statistics, PHE: Public Health England, Potential Years of Life Lost (PYLL), Public Health, Public Health England (PHE), Public Health Funding, Quality of Health Care, Quality Standards, Regulation, Seven-Day Consultant-Delivered Care, Seven-Day GP Access, Seven-Day Hospital Services, Seven-Day NHS Services, Seven-Day Opening, Seven-Day Working, Short Guide to Department of Health (NAO), Social Care Funding, Special Measures, Standardised Years of Life Lost (SYLL), Sustainability, Sustainable Care, Sustainable Health and Social Care, Type 2 Diabetes: Prevention, UK NHS Performance, Urgent and Emergency Care, Urgent and Emergency Care Services, Waiting Times and Access Standards, Waiting Times for Cancer Services, Waiting Times for Diagnostic Tests, Waiting Times for Referral to Treatment for Consultant-Led Elective Care
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Minimising CJD and vCJD Transmission Risks in Healthcare and Community Settings (Department of Health)
Summary The Advisory Committee on Dangerous Pathogens’ Transmissible Spongiform Encephalopathy (ACDP TSE) Risk Management Subgroup has released updated guidance which aims to minimise the risks of transmission of CJD and vCJD in healthcare and other public settings. Full Text Link … Continue reading
Posted in Acute Hospitals, Department of Health, For Doctors (mostly), For Nurses and Therapists (mostly), For Researchers (mostly), Guidelines, Local Interest, Management of Condition, National, NHS, Person-Centred Care, Practical Advice, Quick Insights, Standards, UK, Universal Interest
Tagged Abnormal Proteins (Prions), ACDP TSE Ophthalmic Sub-Group, Advisory Committee on Dangerous Pathogens, Advisory Committee on Dangerous Pathogens (ACDP), Advisory Committee on Dangerous Pathogens (ACDP) Transmissible Spongiform Encephalopathy (TSE) Sub Group, Advisory Committee on Dangerous Pathogens. Transmissible Spongiform Encephalopathy Agents: Alert for Urological Surgeons Regarding Equipment Used for Patients At Risk of vCJD (Transrectal Prostatic Bi, Advisory Committee on the Safety of Blood, Advisory Committee on the Safety of Blood Tissues and Organs (SaBTO), Anaesthesia and Intensive Care, Association of Anaesthetists of Great Britain and Ireland (AAGBI), Bed Linen, Blood Organ and Tissue Donation, Blood Safety, Blood Transfusions, Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy (BSE), Childbirth, CJD, CJD and vCJD Transmission Precautions, CJD and vCJD Transmission Routes, CJD Guidance For Ophthalmologists, CJD Risk Management, CJD Surveillance, Clinical Waste, Community Healthcare of CJD Patients, Contaminated Surgical Instruments, COSHH: Control of Substances Hazardous to Health Regulations 2002, Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease (CJD), Creuzfeldt Jacob Disease (CJD), Decontamination of Surgical Instruments, Dental Instruments, Dentistry, Distribution of Transmissible Spongiform Encephalopathy Infectivity in Human Tissues and Body Fluids, Donor Blood, Engineering and Science Advisory Committee Into the Decontamination of Surgical Instruments Including Prion Removal (ESAC-Pr), Enhanced Surveillance: At Risk Individuals, FFI: Fatal Familial Insomnia, FSE: Feline Spongiform Encephalopathy, GSS: Gerstmann Sträussler Scheinker Disease, Guidelines for Handling Tissues From Patients With or At Risk of CJD or vCJD, Haematology, Haemovigilance, Health and Safety Management of Transmissible Spongiform Encephalopathy, HGH: Human Growth Hormone, Hospital Care of CJD Patients, Infection and Infectious Diseases, Infection Control of CJD vCJD and Other Human Prion Diseases in Healthcare and Community Settings, Joint United Kingdom Blood Transfusion and Tissue Transplantation Services Professional Advisory Committee (JPAC), Mad Cow Disease, Management of Instruments and Tissues From Brain Biopsy Procedures on Patients With Progressive Neurological Disorders, MBM: Meat and Bone Meal, Medical Instruments, Medical Procedures, Minimising CJD and vCJD Transmission Risks, Neurodegenerative Diseases, NHS Blood and Transplant (NHSBT), Novel Pathogens, Occupational Exposure, Parliament, Pathogens, Pregnancy, Public Health, Royal College of Ophthalmologists and the Advisory Committee on Dangerous Pathogens TSE Working Group: CJD Guidance For Ophthalmologists, Safe Working and the Prevention of Infection: Laboratory Containment and Control Measures, SBO: Specified Bovine Offal, Spillages, Standing Advisory Committee for Transfusion Transmitted Infections, Surgical Transmission of Prions, Surveillance, Tissues and Organs (SaBTO), TME: Transmissible Mink Encephalopathy, Transfusion-Transmitted Infection, Transmissible Spongiform Encephalopathies: Diagnostic Criteria, Transmissible Spongiform Encephalopathies: Distribution of Infectivity in Animal Tissue and Body Fluids, Transmissible Spongiform Encephalopathy (ACDP TSE) Risk Management Subgroup, Transmissible Spongiform Encephalopathy Agents, Transmissible Spongiform Encephalopathy Agents: Abbreviations, Transmissible Spongiform Encephalopathy Agents: After Death, Transmissible Spongiform Encephalopathy Agents: Assessment Before Surgery and or Endoscopy to Identify Patients With or At Risk of CJD or vCJD, Transmissible Spongiform Encephalopathy Agents: Endoscopy, Transmissible Spongiform Encephalopathy Agents: Frequently Asked Questions, Transmissible Spongiform Encephalopathy Agents: General Principles of Decontamination and Waste Disposal, Transmissible Spongiform Encephalopathy Agents: Guidelines for Pathologists and Pathology Laboratories, Transmissible Spongiform Encephalopathy Agents: Information Sheet for Funeral Directors Relatives and Others Following a CJD Death, Transmissible Spongiform Encephalopathy Agents: Managing CJD or vCJD Risk in Ophthalmology, Transmissible Spongiform Encephalopathy Agents: Managing vCJD Risk in General Surgery and Liver Transplantation, Transmissible Spongiform Encephalopathy Agents: Quarantining of Surgical Instruments, Transmissible Spongiform Encephalopathy Agents: Safe Working and the Prevention of Infection, Transmissible Spongiform Encephalopathy Agents: Transport of Transmissible Spongiform Encephalopathy-Infected Material, Transport of Transmissible Spongiform Encephalopathy-Infected Material, TSE Risk Assessment Subgroup of the Advisory Committee on Dangerous Pathogens, UK Blood Safety, UK Blood Services, UK Blood Services Joint Professional Advisory Committee, UK Blood Supply, Variant CJD and Blood, Variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease, vCJD Blood Testing, vCJD Carriers in UK, vCJD Infection
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Personalised Health and Care 2020 Report / Framework (National Information Board / Department of Health / NHS England / BBC News)
Summary The National Information Board’s Personalised Health and Care 2020 framework, which was published in November / December 2014, presents plans to transform health care and improve services by use of information / digital technology. The aim is to harness … Continue reading
Posted in Acute Hospitals, Assistive Technology, Commissioning, Community Care, Department of Health, For Carers (mostly), For Doctors (mostly), For Nurses and Therapists (mostly), For Researchers (mostly), For Social Workers (mostly), Integrated Care, Local Interest, Management of Condition, Mental Health, Models of Dementia Care, National, NHS, NHS England, Non-Pharmacological Treatments, Patient Care Pathway, Person-Centred Care, Personalisation, Practical Advice, Quick Insights, Standards, Telecare, Telehealth, UK, Universal Interest
Tagged Andy Williams: Chief Executive of Health and Social Care Information Centre (HSCIC), Association of Directors of Adult Social Services (ADASS), Association of Directors of Adult Social Services Informatics Network, BBC Health News, Best Value for Taxpayers, Big White Wall, Booking Appointments, Chief Medical Officer: Professor Dame Sally Davies, Clinical Practice Research Datalink (CPRD), CMC: Coordinate My Care, Co-ordinate My Care in London, Co-ordinate My Care Scheme, Coordinate My Care, Culture Change in Health and Care, Dame Fiona Caldicott: Chair of the Independent Information Governance Oversight Panel (IIGOP), Dame Fiona Caldicott: National Data Guardian for Health and Care, Data and Technology Revolution, Data Interoperability, Data Sharing, Dean Street Express, Digital Challenge, Digital Health, Digital Health for Care in the Community, Digital Maturity, Digital Opportunity, Digital Technology, Digital Technology and Innovation, Digitisation of Personal Child Health 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NHS Plans For Maximising Use of Digital Technology: Personalised Health and Care 2020 (NHS England / National Information Board)
Summary Latest plans have been released regarding how to optimise the potential gains – in terms of improved patient experience, greater efficiency and better effectiveness of healthcare delivery – from digital health services, telecare, telehealth, mobile healthcare and similar technologies. … Continue reading
Posted in Acute Hospitals, Assistive Technology, BBC News, Commissioning, Community Care, Department of Health, For Carers (mostly), For Doctors (mostly), For Nurses and Therapists (mostly), For Researchers (mostly), For Social Workers (mostly), In the News, Integrated Care, Local Interest, Management of Condition, Mental Health, National, NHS, NHS Digital (Previously NHS Choices), NHS England, Non-Pharmacological Treatments, Patient Care Pathway, Person-Centred Care, Personalisation, Quick Insights, Standards, Telecare, Telehealth, UK, Universal Interest
Tagged Association of Directors of Adult Social Services (ADASS), Association of Directors of Adult Social Services Informatics Network, Best Value for Taxpayers, Big White Wall, BMC Medicine, Booking Appointments, Clinical Practice Research Datalink (CPRD), Co-ordinate My Care in London, Co-ordinate My Care Scheme, Culture Change in Health and Care, Dame Fiona Caldicott: Chair of the Independent Information Governance Oversight Panel (IIGOP), Dame Fiona Caldicott: National Data Guardian for Health and Care, Data and Technology Revolution, Data Interoperability, Data Sharing, Dean Street Express, Digital Challenge, Digital Health, Digital Health for Care in the Community, Digital Technology, Digital Technology and Innovation, Digitisation of Personal Child Health Record (the Red Book), Dignity, Former Health Secretary Jeremy Hunt, Foundation Trust Network, Go Paperless by 2018, Government Digital Services Identity Assurance Service (IDA), Government Digital Strategy, Government Service Design Manual, Health and Social Care Information Centre (HSCIC), Health Apps: Risks of ID Theft or Fraud, Health Education England Strategic Framework, Health Research Authority (HRA), HSCIC: Health and Social Care Information Centre, Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority, Human Fertilisation and Peter Thompson, Human Tissue Authority, Imperial College London, Independent Information Governance Oversight Panel (IIGOP), Information Sharing, Information Technology, Interoperability, Interoperability Standards, Kent County Council Public Health’s Whole Systems Intelligence, Local Chief Information Officer Council, Local Government Association, Medicines and Healthcare Products Regulatory Agency (MHRA), Mobile Applications, Mobile Health, Mobile Healthcare, Mobile Technology, Monitor, My NHS (MyNHS), My NHS (Transparency Site), National Data Guardian, National Information Board, National Information Board (Initially Known as the Informatics Services Commissioning Group), National Information Board (NIB), Neighbourhood Network Schemes, NHS Blood and Transplant (NHSBT), NHS Business Services Authority, NHS Confederation, NHS Endorsement Model for apps, NHS England's Health Apps Library, NHS Health and Social Care Information Centre, NHS Leadership Academy, NHS Litigation Authority (NHSLA), NHS Trust Development Authority (TDA), NIB Framework, Oxford University Hospitals NHS Trust, Paperless Systems, Pen Test Partners, Personalised Health and Care 2020, Power of Information, Promoting Business Opportunities, Promoting UK Exports, Public Health Informatics, Public Trust, Reducing Bed Days, Repeat Prescriptions, Royal Marsden NHS Foundation Trust, Rt Hon Jeremy Hunt MP: Former Secretary of State for Health, Self-Care, Sharing Information, Society of Local Authority Chief Executives (SOLACE), Staffordshire and Stoke On Trent Partnership NHS Trust, Strategic Clinical Reference Group, Supporting Self-Care, Technology Enabled Care Services (TECS), Telehealth and Self Care, Telemedicine, Tim Kelsey: National Informatics Director, Tim Kelsey: NHS National Director for Patients and Information, Time and Care Budget Banking, Timeline of NIB Framework Milestones, Transparency and Public Trust, University Hospitals of Leicester NHS Trust, Use of Data and Technology to Transform Outcomes for Patients and Citizens
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Risks of Variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease: UK Blood Safety (Department of Health)
Summary This document presents the Government’s response to the Science and Technology Select Committee’s “After the Storm?” report on blood safety. It sets out the government’s commitment to evidence-based and cost effective ways to reduce risks of infection from blood transfusions, … Continue reading
Posted in Acute Hospitals, Community Care, Department of Health, For Doctors (mostly), For Nurses and Therapists (mostly), For Researchers (mostly), In the News, National, NHS, Non-Pharmacological Treatments, Patient Care Pathway, Quick Insights, Standards, UK
Tagged Abnormal Proteins (Prions), Advisory Committee on Dangerous Pathogens, Advisory Committee on Dangerous Pathogens (ACDP), Advisory Committee on Dangerous Pathogens (ACDP) Transmissible Spongiform Encephalopathy (TSE) Sub Group, Advisory Committee on the Safety of Blood, Advisory Committee on the Safety of Blood Tissues and Organs (SaBTO), After the Storm?, Behavioural Deferrals for Potential Blood Donors, Blood Organ and Tissue Donation, Blood Safety, Blood Transfusions, Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy (BSE), CJD, CJD Resource Centre Oversight Committee, CJD Risk Management, CJD Surveillance, Contaminated Surgical Instruments, Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease (CJD), Creuzfeldt Jacob Disease (CJD), Decontamination of Surgical Instruments, Donor Blood, DuPont’s Rely+On Prion Inactivator, Enhanced Surveillance: At Risk Individuals, Epidemiology, Epidemiology and Statistics, Haematology, Haemovigilance, House of Commons, House of Commons Science and Technology Committee, Infection and Infectious Diseases, Joint United Kingdom Blood Transfusion and Tissue Transplantation Services Professional Advisory Committee (JPAC), Mad Cow Disease, Medical Instruments, Medical Procedures, Medicines and Healthcare Products Regulatory Agency (MHRA), Misfolded Prion Protein (PrP), MRC Prion Unit, MRC Prion Unit Blood Test, National CJD Research and Surveillance Unit (NCJDRSU), National Expert Panel on New and Emerging Infections, National Institute of Biological Standards and Controls (NIBSC), NCJDRSU: National CJD Research and Surveillance Unit, Neurodegeneration, Neurodegenerative Disease Research, Neurodegenerative Diseases, NHS Blood and Transplant (NHSBT), Novel Pathogens, Parliament, Pathogens, PHE: Public Health England, Population-Level Risk Assessment, Prevalence of CJD, Prion Diseases, Prion Filtration, Prion Inactivation, ProMetic’s P-Capt Prion Filter, Public Health, Public Health England (PHE), Public Health Surveillance, Rapid Review Panel (RRP), Science and Technology Committee (House of Commons), Scientific Advisory Committee (SAC), Scottish National Blood Transfusion Service (SNBTS), Serious Hazards of Transfusion (SHOT), Spongiform Encephalopathy Advisory Committee (SEAC), Standing Advisory Committee for Transfusion Transmitted Infections, Surgical Transmission of Prions, Surveillance, Tissues and Organs (SaBTO), Transfusion-Transmitted Infection, UK Blood Safety, UK Blood Services, UK Blood Services Joint Professional Advisory Committee, UK Blood Supply, UK Parliament, United Kingdom Haemophilia Centre Doctors’ Organisation (UKHCDO), Variant CJD and Blood, Variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease, vCJD Blood Testing, vCJD Carriers in UK, vCJD Clinical Governance Advisory Group, vCJD Infection
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Blood Donation and Transmission of vCJD: Inquiry Required? (BBC News)
Summary The Commons Science and Technology Committee has called for an independent inquiry to check the safety of donor blood arising from the hidden risk of infection from variant CJD (the human form of “mad cow disease”). A recent study revealed one in 2,000 Britons … Continue reading
Posted in BBC News, In the News, National, NHS, Quick Insights, UK, Universal Interest
Tagged Abnormal Proteins (Prions), BBC Health News, Blood Organ and Tissue Donation, Blood Transfusions, Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy (BSE), CJD, Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease (CJD), Creuzfeldt Jacob Disease (CJD), Donor Blood, Epidemiology, Epidemiology and Statistics, House of Commons Science and Technology Committee, Mad Cow Disease, Medical Instruments, Medical Procedures, Misfolded Prion Protein (PrP), Neurodegeneration, Neurodegenerative Disease Research, Neurodegenerative Diseases, NHS Blood and Transplant (NHSBT), Prevalence of CJD, Prion Diseases, Public Health, Public Health England (PHE), Public Health Surveillance, Surveillance, Variant CJD and Blood, Variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease, vCJD Carriers in UK, vCJD Infection
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