This report combines data and knowledge with information from other sources to give a broad picture of the health of people in England in 2019. It includes life expectancy, trends in mortality and morbidity, and inequalities in health.
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This report on an inquiry by the All Party Parliamentary Group on Autism (APPGA) and the National Autistic Society looks at the results of a survey of around 11,000 autistic adults and their families in England and evidence sessions in Parliament. The report finds that not enough has been done locally and nationally to make sure that the Autism Act makes a difference to all autistic people in the country. The report calls on the government to introduce specialist autism support in every council in England, invest in social care services and secure long term sustainable funding.
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This report finds that in comparison to similarly advanced economies, the UK’s capital investment in the NHS has been very low. On average, a person living in the UK has missed out on almost £2,000 since 1975 – the equivalent of over £100 billion overall. The report recommends a new settlement to fund capital and support transformation totalling £5.6 billion per year – an 80 per cent uplift. The PFI legacy must also be urgently addressed, through a ‘right to enfranchisement’ for the NHS, which would bring those that represent bad deals back into public ownership.
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This week’s Library bulletins are on Community Health and Suicide Prevention.
The November issue of Journal of Psychiatric Research has been published. This issue includes a meta-analysis of comparative efficacy and acceptability of first-line drugs for the acute treatment of generalized anxiety disorder in adults and the association between polygenic score for body mass index and depressive symptoms via early life stress.
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This report urgently calls for investment in district nursing, as new figures show the number of district nurses working in the NHS has dropped by almost 43 per cent in England in the past 10 years. The report also analyses the support needed to make an outstanding district nursing service.
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The October edition of BJPsych Bulletin has been published. This issue includes articles on personal resilience in psychiatrists, patient-reported outcome measures in community mental health teams, and factors influencing use of community treatment orders and quality of care that people receive.
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This is the Care Quality Commission inspection report for Lancashire Care NHS Foundation Trust, released on 10th September 2019. The Trust has been awarded an overall rating of ‘Requires Improvement’. However, 10 of the 14 core services have been rated ‘Good’ and the Trust was rated good overall for Caring and Responsive.
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This is an analysis of UK healthcare spending relative to comparable countries, using data produced to the international definitions of the System of Health Accounts. It shows that in 2017, the UK spent £2,989 per person on healthcare, which was around the median for members of the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD).
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This report aims to shine a light on the issue of casual ageism and the impact that it has on all of us. It highlights how ageism can have real life consequences, promotes exclusion and can affect physical and mental health. It is based on consumer research of 4,000 UK adults to understand how and when people experience ageism, how many of us admit to being ageist, and if people feel progress is being made to stamp it out. It finds casual ageism is part of our everyday language. It’s so ingrained that many ageist remarks are often overlooked, missed or simply accepted. Many sentiments are subtle and can even be well-intentioned. But the truth is that ‘ageist’ language, however casual, can have a huge impact on our perception of life after 50 and the way we treat people we meet. The truth is that ageist language, however casual, perpetuates the myth that life after 50 must be worse than before it.
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