The NHS app is being developed by NHS England and NHS Digital, driven by a tight deadline. At launch, it will incorporate the NHS 111 symptom checker, support people’s transactions with GP practices (book appointments, order repeat prescriptions, and view medical records), and provide options to log preferences to be respected across the national system (on organ donation, end-of-life care, and sharing data for secondary use).
During the school summer holiday, children will be going out with their friends, socialising and making the most of their freedom. Cuts, bruises, bites, stings and sunburn are all potential incidents, so local NHS advice is to have the essential treatments at hand, just in case.
Public Health England (PHE) has launched a new ‘Be Clear on Cancer’ campaign in the West Midlands, to highlight blood in pee as a key symptom of bladder and kidney cancers. The campaign will encourage everyone to ‘look before they flush’ and visit their GP without delay if they notice blood in their pee, even if it’s just once or only a little bit.
The takeaway message for anyone reading this article is that oily fish remains an important part of a healthy diet. Current recommendations are to have at least 2 portions of fish a week, including 1 of oily fish.
This study identified a possible link between higher temperatures and higher rates of suicide, although it cannot prove that one caused the other.
The study had a number of limitations, with the main difficulty being that both the climate and health data were collected at the community level, so we do not know anything about the experiences of individual people.
Furthermore, as the study focused on the US and Mexico, we do not know whether the findings would apply to other countries, such as the UK.
This study seems to confirm an association between retinal thickness and performance on brain function tests.
However, we shouldn't interpret this to mean that looking at retinal thickness could detect people in the early stages of dementia.
This study did not examine retinal changes and mental decline over a long period of time. Only 4% of people in this study had follow-up brain tests 2 to 3 years later. We don't know whether their performance on this test was typical. For example, some of the low scores may have been caused by feeling unwell or tired at the time.
This was a large and reasonably well-conducted study that highlighted a possible association between a symptom people may experience in middle age and their risk of developing dementia or stroke in later life. But it does not tell us why they might be linked.
Because postural hypotension was only measured at the start of the study, we do not know whether people continued to experience it over time, if they were successfully treated, or if some only developed it later. We also cannot tell if it mattered how long someone had postural hypotension or what had caused it.
This study provides an interesting breakdown by age and gender of potential nutrient deficiencies in a sample of UK adults. However, the study has a number of limitations.
The negative effects of shift work schedules, specifically night and rotating shifts, have been widely reported. However, little is understood whether particular aspects of the organisational environment, related to specific shifts, may influence the negative impact of shift work. This study investigated the variation in organisational climate and health outcomes across shift work schedules (day, night, rotating).
The article suggest seven steps that can help strengthen workforce and prevent employee burnout. It includes defining the key responsibilities and functions within each individual's job role, the need for business leaders to give clear objectives of their workforces, and ensuring a a better work-life balance. To read the full article, log in using your NHS OpenAthens details.
To systematically examine the efficacy of interventions aimed at improving nursing students’ mental health and to identify which form of interventions was effective.. To read the full article, log in using your MPFT NHS OpenAthens details. SSOTP (legacy account) - You can request a copy of this article by replying to this email. Please ensure you are clear which article you are requesting.
the aim of this study was to explore the longitudinal associations between academic burnout and resilience and psychological well‐being, as well as the stability of these variables in a sample of university nursing students.. To read the full article, log in using your MPFT NHS OpenAthens details. SSOTP (legacy account) - You can request a copy of this article by replying to this email. Please ensure you are clear which article you are requesting.
In August 2016, the government published Childhood obesity: a plan for action. As part of the plan, Ofsted has reviewed obesity, healthy eating and physical activity in schools.
The British Association of Sexual Health and HIV (BASHH) released draft guidance today because of concerns that if MG is missed and not properly treated, it can develop resistance to antibiotics and become increasingly difficult to treat. Data suggests that some widely used antibiotics used to treat MG are already not working.
This study finds very little hard evidence supporting the beneficial effect of vitamin D on neurodegenerative diseases.
That said, it's still a useful piece of research as it demonstrates the need for further studies in this area.
The study left some questions unanswered: Are the benefits of the treatment long lasting? How would these patients do if they put their fears to the test by actually going to high places?
But overall this is an interesting development in the use of VR to help common mental health conditions.