Group-based circuit class therapy (CCT) focused on repetitive mobility, and functional tasks improved walking ability in people after stroke. People walked on average 61m further during six minutes than those receiving comparison interventions. CCT involves stroke survivors practising different activities at workstations in sight of each other.
Routine invasive therapy for people aged over 75 with non-ST-elevation acute coronary syndromes reduced the risk of dying, having a heart attack or stroke, and need for further intervention. However, there was a higher risk of major bleeding compared to treating people with medication.
People with chronic pain use a range of healthcare services, but they also report a high degree of dissatisfaction with treatments. One reason for dissatisfaction might be participants’ expectations towards treatments. The aim of this study was to explore expectations of people with chronic pain towards participation in easily accessible pain management interventions delivered in public primary care.
There is a strong correlation between long term physical conditions and mental health conditions, notably anxiety and depression, but a general practice nurse with good communication skills can do much to identify and support affected patients.
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As the service team lead I noticed a clinical need for a care plan to help assist and manage patients with a high out put stomas or bowel fistulas. In the community these patients are frequently readmitted to hospital with little education to the patient of what warning signs to look out for. I attended a clinical workshop/ master class by Coloplast aimed at managing high out put stomas and off the back of this I developed a care plan for clinical nurse specialists and patients to use.
Device that allows people with long term heart conditions to monitor themselves at home and transmit readings to clinic electronically for clinician analysis.
This bulletin presents statistical information on patient education/self management programmes for long term conditions collected from health and social care trusts and independent providers. It details information on the type, provision, frequency and trust area of the programmes delivered.
Better Care Together is releasing two new films which aim to help users of inhalers to get the maximum benefit from them.
The new films join 11 others in Better Care Together’s suite of self-care films published on YouTube, which have been now viewed in excess of 8,000 times.
The new integrated service is to benefit people with low level mental health needs such as mild to moderate depression and anxiety disorders (panic disorder, agoraphobia, generalised anxiety disorder, social anxiety disorder, post-traumatic stress disorder, phobias, and obsessive compulsive disorder) in the context of Diabetes and respiratory conditions (COPD and Asthma).
Unfortunately SSOTP do not plan to take library services from the SSSFT library services during 2017/18. Sadly this means that we will be discontinuing this weekly bulletin. If you are an SSSFT member of staff subscribed to this bulletin, please reply to this email letting us know what areas of the update you are interested in and we can discuss the best way of keeping you updated in this area.
Unfortunately SSOTP do not plan to take library services from the SSSFT library services during 2017/18. Sadly this means that we will be discontinuing this weekly bulletin. If you are an SSSFT member of staff subscribed to this bulletin, please reply to this email letting us know what areas of the update you are interested in and we can discuss the best way of keeping you updated in this area.
We’ve just heard that SSOTP will not be renewing their agreement with SSSFT LKS for library services for this financial year. Because of this we will be reviewing our Be Aware bulletins. Sadly we won’t be accepting any new sign-ups from SSOTP staff and will be withdrawing some of the physical healthcare bulletins that we…
Objective To explore the barriers and facilitators to inhaled asthma treatment in adolescents with asthma.
Design Qualitative analysis of posts about inhaler treatment in adolescents from an online forum for people with asthma. Analysis informed by the Perceptions and Practicalities Approach.
Open Access Article
The Live Well Community Cafés will provide, fun, entertainment, advice and guidance to anyone living in south Staffordshire that has been diagnosed with or cares for someone with an illness or condition that has changed the way they live, whether that be diabetes, heart disease, dementia, Parkinson disease, fibromyalgia, arthritis, depression & anxiety, …… the list is endless.
Background: We conducted a randomized controlled trial of a digital health system supporting clinical care through monitoring and self-management support in community-based patients with moderate to very severe chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD).
Conclusions: While telehealth-mediated self-management was not consistently superior to usual care, none of the reviews reported any negative effects, suggesting that telehealth is a safe option for delivery of self-management support, particularly in conditions such as heart failure and type 2 diabetes, where the evidence base is more developed.
We report a preliminary investigation to inform the development of a full randomized controlled trial for testing the efficacy of computerized interventions for people with long-term neurological conditions such as stroke and conclude that this is a potentially promising way of improving accessibility of psychological support.
Conclusions: Use of a self-management platform is higher when participants receive adequate personal assistance about how to use the platform. Blended care, where digital health and usual care are integrated, will likely lead to increased use of the online program
In people with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), injectable pneumococcal vaccine seems to protect against community-acquired pneumonia and COPD exacerbation, but not against pneumococcal pneumonia. The vaccine does not reduce risk of hospital admission or death but seems to result in fewer people attending the emergency department.