Over half of women (58%) living with HIV in the UK have experienced violence in their lives, according to a new joint report from Sophia Forum and Terrence Higgins Trust.
This review provides the conceptual framework needed to select potentially appropriate characteristics of healthcare outputs to be included in a measure of NHS output.
This strategic document outlines how services for victims and survivors of sexual assault and abuse, in all settings of the health and care system, need to evolve between now and 2023. It sets out six core priorities that NHS England will focus on to reduce inequalities experienced.
This week-long, non-residential event is based at Bristol University and clinical units within the Avon and Wiltshire Mental Health Partnership NHS Trust (AWP) area. It will include:
Work experience with psychiatrists
One-to-one help, including medical school application advice
Informative psychiatry-themed seminars
Learning about 'Life as a Medical Student' from current Bristol medical students
The survey report, UK working lives: in search of job quality considers seven key dimensions of job quality and focuses on policy and practice actions that aim to improve working lives. It acknowledges the importance of promoting good mental health and improving the health and wellbeing of the workforce.
The apprenticeship standard for the advanced clinical practitioner (ACP) role has now been approved for delivery by the Education and Skills Funding Agency.
The level 7 apprenticeship (master’s degree level) will allow employers to train new and existing staff in advanced clinical practice via the apprenticeship route. The standard also confirms that the apprenticeship will take the apprentices 36 months to complete and that it sits in funding band 10.
Join us in celebrating the seventh Equality, Diversity and Human Rights Week #EQW2018, which takes place from 14 to 18 May 2018.
Co-ordinated by NHS Employers, #EQW2018 is a national platform for organisations to highlight their work to create a fairer, more inclusive NHS for patients and staff.
In the run up to Dying Matters Awareness Week 2018, Staffordshire’s Health and Wellbeing Board, alongside Together We're Better, have launched a campaign to encourage people to speak openly and honestly about death and dying and ensure their final wishes are known.
Having established proof of the concept behind the device in a study published in Nature Nanotechnology, the research team from the University of Bathopens in new window hopes that it can eventually become a low-cost, wearable sensor that sends regular, clinically relevant glucose measurements to the wearer’s phone or smartwatch wirelessly, alerting them when they may need to take action.
An important advantage of this device over others is that each miniature sensor of the array can operate on a small area over an individual hair follicle – this significantly reduces inter- and intra-skin variability in glucose extraction and increases the accuracy of the measurements taken such that calibration via a blood sample is not required.
The study, which received funding from the MRC and was an international collaboration with King’s College London, University of Oxford, MRC Harwell, University of California in Los Angeles, University of Pennsylvania and others, examined the effect of a gene called KLF14. The researchers found that genetic variations that control KLF14 were associated with where in the body excess fat was stored. In women, versions of the gene that result in fat being stored around the hips, rather than the abdomen, were linked to a lower risk of diabetes.
Parents’ diets and health can have profound implications for the growth, development, and long-term health of their children bef Parents’ diets can have affect the long-term health of children before conception.ore their conception, according to a series of three papers published in The Lancetopens in new window.
We can't draw any conclusions about the relationship between sleep and Alzheimer's disease from this research. All we can say is that generally, getting a good night's sleep brings other important physical and mental health benefits
Overall, researchers found brain injury is associated with a 24% increased risk of dementia.
The most important thing to realise, though, is that the absolute risks of developing dementia are still fairly small: 4.5% of people with no history of a TBI developed dementia, compared with 5.1% who had a TBI.
If you are a night owl, there's no need to panic about the study. The usual rules about a healthy lifestyle – including getting sufficient sleep, at whatever time you choose to get it – still apply.
It appears there was an error in the researchers' calculations that meant the levels of zinc should actually have been well within guideline recommendations.