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Tag Archives: University of Bristol
Babylon Health Applies Artificial Intelligence to Improving Integration of Care and Population Health in Wolverhampton (HTN / RWT / BMJ / Lancet / NHS England / BBC News)
Summary Babylon Health and the Royal Wolverhampton NHS Trust have announced a ten year partnership to explore the application of an artificial intelligence app to delivering joined-up digital care for Wolverhampton’s population. Full Text Link Reference Babylon agrees 10 year … Continue reading
Posted in Acute Hospitals, Assistive Technology, Commissioning, Community Care, Diagnosis, 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, National, New Cross Hospital, NHS, Non-Pharmacological Treatments, Nuffield Trust, Person-Centred Care, Personalisation, Quick Insights, Royal Wolverhampton NHS Trust, Telecare, Telehealth, UK, Universal Interest, Wolverhampton
Tagged Access to Personal Health Records Online, Access to Primary Care, Adoption of Innovations, Ageing and Long-Term Care, Ageing Population, AI Health Assistant: Medical Information and Triage Advice, AI Symptom Checkers, Ali Parsa: CEO and Founder of Babylon, Anticipatory Care Planning and Integration, Applications of Big Data, Apps, apps for Smartphones or Tablets, Artificial Intelligence (AI), Artificial Intelligence Enhanced Anticipatory Care, Ask A&E: Free COVID-19 Care Assistant (Powered by Babylon), Babylon, Babylon GP at Hand (BGPaH) Evaluation Studies, Babylon’s AI Symptom Checker, Babylon’s Artificial Intelligence, BBC Health News, BBC Technology News, Beyond Integrated Care: Population Health Systems, Birmingham and Solihull, Blurring Boundary Between Primary and Secondary Care, BMJ, BMJ Publishing Group Ltd, Booking Appointments, Bristol Medical School: University of Bristol, British Medical Journal (BMJ), Cannock Chase Hospital, Centre for Academic Primary Care: University of Bristol, Co-Design, Co-Design: People-Driven Change, COVID-19 and NHS Use of Digital Technology, COVID-19 Care Assistant, Department of Population Health Sciences: University of Bristol, Digital Care Plans, Digital Care Records, Digital Change in Health and Social Care, Digital Health, Digital Health Innovations, Digital Innovation, Digital Interventions for Health System Improvements, Digital Maturity, Digital Outpatients, Digital Patient Portal, Digital Service Transformation, Digital Services, Digital Services for Patients, Digital Suppliers, Digital Technology, Digital Technology and Innovation, Digital-First Integrated Care, Digital-First Primary Care, Efficiencies and Productivity Gains, Efficiency and Effectiveness, Efficiency Opportunities, Electronic Booking, Electronic Consultations (eConsults), GP at Hand (Babylon), GP at Hand app (Babylon Health), Greener NHS Campaign, Health and Care Infrastructure, Health and Care of Older People, Health Assessments, Health Information Technology, Health Innovation, Health Management, HTN: Health Tech Newspaper, Innovation and Co-Design, Integrated Digital Care: An Information Revolution, Integrated Digital Health System (Wolverhampton), Integrated Digital Health Systems, Integration of Primary Community and Secondary Healthcare, Integration of Primary Secondary and Community Care, Ipsos MORI Social Research Institute, IT Infrastructure, Joined-Up Care, Joined-Up Healthcare: Digital Technology, Journal of Medical Internet Research (JMIR), Merging the Interfaces of Primary and Secondary Care, Monitoring Patients Remotely, Net Zero, Net Zero NHS: Greener NHS Campaign, NHS Hammersmith and Fulham CCG, NHS Hammersmith and Fulham Clinical Commissioning Group, Optimising Benefits of Digital Technology, Optimising Patient Outcomes Using Digital Technology, Patient Access to Records, Patient Activation, Patient Choice, Patient Control Over Appointment Booking and Prescriptions, Patient Empowerment, Patient Facility to Watch Consultations Again (Improving Adherence to Clinician Instructions), Patient Facility to Watch Consultations Again (Improving Health Literacy), Patient Facility to Watch Consultations Again (Improving Memory of Instructions), Patient Records, Personal Clinical Records, Personalised Care Plans, Population Health, Primary and Secondary Care, Private Video-Consultation Services in Primary Care, Professional Record Standards Body (PRSB), Reducing Unnecessary Admissions, Reducing Unnecessary Travel, Reducing Unnecessary Trips to Hospital, Reducing Waste in the NHS, Remote Appointments, Remote Care Monitoring, Remote Consultations, Remote Health Monitoring, Remote Support, Remote Technologies for Healthcare Quality Improvement, Self Care (Technology-Supported), Self-Management (Technology-Supported), Service Transformation, Smartphone apps, Smartphones, Sultan Mahmud: Director of Integration Innovation and Research at RWT, Technological Trends, Technology and Innovation, Technology-Supported Self-Management, Telecare (Remote Collection of Patient Data), Telehealth (Remote Monitoring), Telehealth to Monitor Patients Remotely, Telemedicine, Telemonitoring, TeleTracking, Text Messaging, Transformative Health Technology, Transformative Technology, Treating Patients Closer to Home, University Hospital Birmingham (UHB) NHS Foundation Trust, University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust, University of Bristol, Vertical Integration (of Primary and Secondary Care), Video Consultations, Video Consultations to Avoid Outpatient Attendances, Video or Face-to-Face Consultations, Wearable Technology, Wearables (Technology), West Park Hospital, York Health Economics Consortium, York Health Economics Consortium (YHEC), Zesty: Digital Outpatients
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NICE Guidance on Best Interests Decision-Making and Mental Capacity: Theory and Practice? (NICE / British Journal of Psychiatry)
Summary The National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) has released a guideline covering decision-making in adults, over 16 years of age, who may lack capacity. The aim to support people to exercise their own decision-making where they have the capacity, and … Continue reading
Posted in NICE Guidelines, Universal Interest
Tagged Advance Care Planning (ACP), Best Interests Decision-Making, Bristol Medical School: University of Bristol, British Journal of Psychiatry, Decision-Making and Mental Capacity, Decision-Making and Mental Capacity: NICE Guideline NG108, Division of Psychiatry: University College London, Empowering Patients, Empowerment and Dementia, Engagement and Patient Preferences., Ethical Considerations, Ethical Dilemmas, Ethical Issues of Dementia Care, Health Services Research: University of Exeter Medical School, Involvement of Patients With Dementia in Decisions on Medication Prescription, Involvement of Patients With Dementia in Decisions to Initiate Pharmacological Treatments, Lack of Empowerment, Later Life, Learning Disabilities, Medication Decisions in Dementia, Medication Decisions in Dementia: Assertions, Medication Decisions in Dementia: Offers, Medication Decisions in Dementia: Pronouncements, Medication Decisions in Dementia: Proposals, Medication Decisions in Dementia: Suggestions, Memory Clinics, Mental Health and Illness, National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE), Neurological Disorders, Patient Acceptance, Patient Empowerment, Patient Involvement, Patient Preferences, Patient Satisfaction, Population Health Sciences: University of Bristol, SDM: Shared Decision Making, Shared Decision-Making, Supporting Decision-Making, Thinking Ahead - Advance Care Planning, Treatment Recommendation Coding Scheme, University College London, University of Bristol, University of Exeter, University of Exeter Medical School, Video-Recorded Dementia Diagnostic Meetings
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Cardiovascular Health in Old Age Associated With Reduced Risk of Cognitive Decline and Dementia (NHS Choices / JAMA)
Summary Fresh evidence from France suggests that favourable cardiovascular health metrics – measured using the American Heart Association (AHA)’s Life’s Simple 7 Metrics tool – and higher cardiovascular health scores, are associated with a lower risk of developing dementia and … Continue reading
Posted in Community Care, For Doctors (mostly), For Nurses and Therapists (mostly), For Researchers (mostly), In the News, International, NHS Digital (Previously NHS Choices), Quick Insights, Statistics, Universal Interest
Tagged 3C Study, Active and Healthy Ageing, Ageing Population, American Heart Association (AHA), American Heart Association (AHA)’s Life's Simple 7 Metrics Tool, Association of Cardiovascular Risk Factors With MRI Indices of Cerebrovascular Structure and Function in Young Adults, Association of Cardiovascular Risk Factors With White Matter Hyperintensities in Young Adults, Bazian, Behavioural Risk Factors, Behavioural Risk Factors and Dementia, Behind the Headlines, BHF Centre of Research Excellence and Big Data Institute: University of Oxford, BMI Below 25: Life’s Simple 7 Recommended Optimal Characteristics for a Healthy Heart, Bordeaux, Buckinghamshire NHS Trust, Canada, Cardiovascular and Brain Health, Cardiovascular Fitness, Cardiovascular Risk Factors, Cardiovascular Risk Factors (CVRF), Cardiovascular Risk Factors and Cognitive Decline, Centre for Statistics in Medicine: University of Oxford, CHU Bordeaux (France), Cognitive Impairment (Potential Risk Factors), Cumulative Benefit of Reducing Risk Factors, Dementia Risk Factors, Department of Family Care and Mental Health: University of Greenwich, Department of Neurology: University Hospital Carl Gustav Carus, Department of Radiology and Hotchkiss Brain Institute: University of Calgary, Department of Radiology: Stoke Mandeville Hospital, Dietary Risk Factors, Dijon, Division of Cardiovascular Medicine: University of Oxford, Eating Fruit and Vegetables at Least 3 Times a Day and Fish Twice a Week or More: Life’s Simple 7 Recommended Optimal Characteristics for a Healthy Heart, Faculty of Health and Life Sciences: Oxford Brookes University, France, Germany, Healthy Ageing, Healthy Behaviours, Healthy Behaviours Evidence, Healthy Blood Pressure (Less Than 120/80mmHg Untreated): Life’s Simple 7 Recommended Optimal Characteristics for a Healthy Heart, Healthy Heart Associated With Healthy Brain, INSERM CIC-1401 Bordeaux: Clinical Epidemiology Unit (Bordeaux), Inserm Research Center for Epidemiology and Biostatistics: Bordeaux, INSERM: Bordeaux Population Health Research Center, INSERM: Neuropsychiatry - Epidemiological and Clinical Research (Montpellier), INSERM: Paris Cardiovascular Research Center, INSERM: University of Bordeaux, Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale (INSERM): Université Montpellier, Institut National de la Santé et la Recherché Médicale (INSERM), JAMA, Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA), Kings College London, Li Ka Shing Centre for Health Information and Discovery: University of Oxford, Life's Simple 7 Metrics Tool (American Heart Association), Life’s Simple 7 Recommended Optimal Behaviours / Characteristics for a Healthy Heart, Lifestyle Risk Factors, Low Blood Sugar Levels (Fasting Blood Glucose Less Than 5.5mmol/L Without Diabetes Treatment) : Life’s Simple 7 Recommended Optimal Characteristics for a Healthy Heart, Low Levels of Cholesterol (Less Than 5.2mmol/L): Life’s Simple 7 Recommended Optimal Characteristics for a Healthy Heart, Modifiable Risk Factors, Montpellier, MRI Indices of Cerebrovascular Structure and Function in Young Adults, Never Too Early: Regarding Cardiovascular and Brain Health Ambition, Not Smoking: Life’s Simple 7 Recommended Optimal Characteristics for a Healthy Heart, Nuffield Department of Clinical Neurosciences: University of Oxford, Nuffield Department of Orthopaedics Rheumatology and Musculoskeletal Sciences: University of Oxford, Nuffield Department of Population Health: University of Oxford, Overlapping Risk Factors, Oxford Brookes University, Oxford Cardiovascular Clinical Research Facility: University of Oxford, Oxford Centre for Clinical Magnetic Resonance Research: University of Oxford, Prevention, Prevention Agenda, Radcliffe Department of Medicine: University of Oxford, Regular Physical Activity: Life’s Simple 7 Recommended Optimal Characteristics for a Healthy Heart, Risk Factors, Risk Factors and Preventive Interventions for Cognitive Impairment, Risk Factors and Preventive Interventions for Dementia, Sanofi-Aventis, School of Biomedical Engineering and Imaging Sciences: King's College London, School of Policy Studies: University of Bristol, Stoke Mandeville Hospital, Technische Universität Dresden, Unhealthy Behaviours, United Kingdom, Université de Bordeaux, Université de Montpellier, Université de Paris-Descartes, University Hospital Carl Gustav Carus (Dresden), University of Bordeaux, University of Bristol, University of Calgary, University of Greenwich, University of Oxford, Vascular Dementia, Vascular Risk Factors, Wellcome Centre for Integrative Neuroimaging (FMRIB Division): University of Oxford, White Matter Hyperintensities, White Matter Hyperintensity Volume
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Reducing Health Inequalities and Premature Mortality for People With Learning Disabilities (BBC News / HQIP)
Summary The Healthcare Quality Improvement Partnership (HQIP) and the University of Bristol’s Norah Fry Research Centre have published an interim update report, commissioned by NHS England, on the premature deaths of people with learning disabilities in NHS care. The Learning … Continue reading
Posted in Acute Hospitals, 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, Management of Condition, National, NHS, NHS England, Person-Centred Care, Quick Insights, Standards, Statistics, UK, Universal Interest
Tagged Autistic Spectrum Condition (ASC), Autistic Spectrum Disorder (ASD), Avoidable Premature Mortality, BBC Health News, Care and Treatment Reviews, Care and Treatment Reviews (CTRs), Care for Vulnerable Older People, Care of Vulnerable Adults, Community Learning Disabilities Teams, Confidential Inquiry into Premature Deaths of People with Learning Disabilities (CIPOLD), Connor Sparrowhawk, Dr Sara Ryan, Electronic Integration of Health and Social Care Records, Health Action Plans, Health Inequalities, Health Inequalities and Premature Mortality for People With Learning Disabilities, Health Inequalities in England, Health Passports, Healthcare Quality Improvement Partnership (HQIP), HQIP, Institutional Abuse, Institutional Factors, Institutional Neglect, Learning Disabilities, Learning Disabilities Mortality Review (LeDeR) Programme, Learning Disabilities: Data and Information, Learning Disabilities: Improving Health Outcomes, Learning Disabilities: Increasing the Take-Up of Routine Health Checks, Learning Disabilities: Joint Working Across Health and Care, Learning Disabilities: Monitoring Service Quality, Learning Disabilities: NHS England Initiatives, Learning Disabilities: Regulation and Inspection, Learning Disabilities: Transforming Care, Learning Disability Awareness Training, Learning Disability Nurses, LeDeR: Learning Disabilities Mortality Review, Mental Capacity Act (MCA), Mild Learning Disabilities, Moderate Learning Disabilities, Multiple Learning Disabilities, Named Health Care Coordinators, National Learning Disability Mortality Review Programme, Norah Fry Research Centre: University of Bristol, People With Learning Disabilities, Pneumonia and Sepsis in People With Learning Disabilities, Premature Mortality, Profound Learning Disabilities, Project Choice, Protecting Vulnerable People, Reducing Health Inequalities, Reducing Premature Mortality, Severe Learning Disabilities, Sir Stephen Bubb: Association of Chief Executives of Voluntary Organisations (ACEVO), Southern Health NHS Foundation Trust, Specialist Learning Disability Nurses, Targeting Resources on Vulnerable Populations, Teresa Colvin, Transforming Care (Winterbourne View) Improvement Programme, Transforming Care for People with Learning Disabilities, University of Bristol, University of Bristol’s Norah Fry Research Centre, Vulnerable Groups, Vulnerable Older People, Winterbourne View: Transforming Care
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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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