Behaviour change techniques for families
PHE guidance on evidence-based behaviour change techniques for healthy weight services to support families with children aged 4-11 years old.
Read the guidance here.
Government Statistics
Children living with parents with emotional distress: March 2020 update
Official statistics on the proportion of children living with at least one parent with symptoms of emotional distress.
Read more here
Department of Health and Social Care
The Government’s 2020-2021 mandate to NHS England and NHS Improvement
This document contains the government’s mandate to NHS England and NHS Improvement and confirms the objectives and budget for the year ahead. The financial directions provide further details on how NHS England’s budget is broken down.
Read the mandate here
COVID-19
E-Learning for healthcare: Coronavirus programme available
Free e-learning from Health Education England on Coronavirus. Courses include Guidance from the NHS and Government and Infection Prevention and Control.
Read more here
Digital Health
Lessons from gaming – can we get patients hooked on health apps?
Gaming and healthcare are not usually put together in the same sentence but Kumar Jacob, founder and CEO of Mindwave Ventures, argues there is a lot to learn from the gaming industry.
Read more here
Virtual Training
Support for navigating mental health & wellbeing in response to COVID-19
The i-resilience report is a resilience tool available completely free to use. It includes a webinar from Professor Ivan Robertson, insight from Professor Sir Cary Cooper, a downloadable check-in tool to help you understand your pressure, and more.
Register here.
Study
Medication beliefs and use of medication lists – is there a connection? Results from a before-and-after study in Germany
Despite increasing digitalisation the paper based medication list remains one of the most important instruments for the documentation and exchange of medical-related information. However, even elderly patients with polypharmacy who are at high risk for medical errors and adverse drug effects, frequently do not receive or use a complete and comprehensible medication list. Increasing the use of medication lists would be a great contribution to medication safety and facilitate the work of healthcare providers.
Read more on the study here.
COVID-19
Understanding how we feel and finding ways to cope
This article looks at emotions and mood in response to the current world wide situation in the context of already established models, and how we might start to understand and cope with them
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COVID-19
13 Things on the internet to lift your spirits right now
It is unpleasant, frightening and often lonely to be living in the time of a global pandemic. But as the Coronavirus’ continuing spread contains people across the world in isolation in our homes, good citizens of the internet have stepped up to help fill the void of physical human connection.
Here are a few things that have distracted, delighted and entertained us in the strange, new, primarily virtual reality.
CQC Report
Using machine learning in diagnostic services: a report with recommendations from CQC’s regulatory sandbox
This sandbox round focused on the use of machine learning applications for diagnostic purposes in healthcare services. The findings were used to identify and consider where the CQC needs to update their current regulatory methods, and the work required to get this right in order to regulate these services better. A regulatory sandbox is a way of testing how best to regulate new types of services by working collaboratively to find out about them.
Read the report here