This guidance explores: how shift work can impact on health, safety and wellbeing; what measures can be taken by employers and employees; and the importance of partnership working on shift working patterns.
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Population health management (PHM) – the use of data to identify specific groups within a population that may have similar characteristics and similar needs, and develop targeted interventions to meet those needs – was a notable theme of the NHS long-term plan. But it’s something that clinical commissioners have been doing for some time. This report brings together PHM stories from 10 different areas of England – led by clinical commissioners – to demonstrate the progress that has already been made in advancing this approach to health care, and what more will need to be done.
The report can be read here
The 2019 Workforce Race Equality Standard (WRES) report is the fifth publication, since the WRES was mandated and covers all nine indicators. It also compares data against previous years. The report has the following key roles: to enable organisations to compare their performance with others in their region and those providing similar services, with the aim of encouraging improvement by learning and sharing good practice; and to provide a national picture of WRES in practice, to colleagues, organisations and the public on the developments in the workforce race equality agenda.
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Upskilling the NHS workforce is a long-debated issue and Rory Tanner from the Health Tech Alliance explores the issue for Digital Health.
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The NIHR-funded programme took a whole-school approach to addressing the issue of bullying, which took a restorative approach involving discussion of relationships.
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NHS Behind the Headlines evaluates the results of a study which found that people who spent more time doing light activity as teenagers had lower depression scores at the age of 18 than those who had spent more time sitting down.
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Too many children and young people nationally do not receive the support they need to improve their mental health and wellbeing. The purpose of this research (commissioned from Isos Partnership) is to explore some of the factors that are contributing to this nationally challenging context, and to develop an evidence base for how local government and its partners can work most effectively together to deliver a coherent and joined-up offer of support for children and young people’s mental health.
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England’s most senior nurse has appointed the lead on health and wellbeing for Chelsea Pensioners as her advisor on improving support for care home nurses. Professor Deborah Sturdy OBE will provide the chief nursing officer for England, Ruth May, with expert advice from those nurses working to deliver the high-quality clinical care for people living in care homes, helping them to stay healthy, happy and independent for longer.
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Following the ratification of the Withdrawal Agreement, the UK now has until the end of this year to define its future relationship with the EU. The Brexit Health Alliance is concerned that the safety and health of patients and citizens could be overlooked during the negotiations over the next 11 months and has produced a briefing and summary to highlight why time is of the essence and health must be a priority in the future relationship negotiations.
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The Mental Health Act 1983 is the legal framework that provides authority to detain and treat people who have a mental illness and need protection for their own health or safety, or for the safety of other people. The latest monitoring report finds there has been an improvement in the number of people being given information about their rights and being offered the support of an independent mental health advocate (IMHA). However, services need to do more to ensure that they are complying with their human rights duties.
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