NHS workforce needs tech innovation just as much as patients
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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Bullying
An anti-bullying intervention trial resulted in less incidents of bullying
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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Mental Health
Can light activity improve mental health for teenagers?
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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Local Government Association
Building resilience: how local partnerships are supporting children and young people’s mental health and emotional wellbeing
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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News
Chief Nursing Officer appoints first-ever adviser for care home nursing
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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Brexit Health Alliance
Prioritising health in our future relationship with the EU
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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Care Quality Commission
Monitoring the Mental Health Act in 2018/19
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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Royal College Of Nursing
Futureproofing community children’s nursing
This guidance is for health care professionals, service providers and those involved with planning and commissioning services. It sets out the RCN’s perspective on contemporary and future children and young people’s nursing services in the home and community setting. It also underlines the increasingly crucial role played by community children’s nurses as they provide integrated care closer to home. It explores the legislative and policy agenda, defines the role of the children’s community nurse (CCN), sets out the core principles of providing care, considers variations in how the needs of families are assessed across the four countries of the UK and outlines examples of current models of care and service delivery.
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Alzheimer’s Research
Delivering the Dementia Moonshot: A plan to find life-changing treatments
Alzheimer’s Research UK has called on government to invest in six priority research areas, which will help to deliver a life-changing treatment for dementia.
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News
NHS may use people’s phone data to predict mental health issues
Following a successful trial, Birmingham and Solihull Mental Health NHS Foundation Trust is considering the roll-out of an app with a machine-learning algorithm that uses mobile phone data to predict who is at risk of having a mental health crisis.
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