The November issue of British Journal of Community Nursing has been published. This issue includes articles on winter and key infection prevention practices, caseload profiling in district nursing, and improving personalization in a district nursing team.
Click here to view the table of contents. You will need to login with your LCFT OpenAthens account to view the full text articles.
How Should Health Policy Respond To The Growing Challenge Of Multimorbidity?: We need patient-centred care, with more emphasis on generalist rather than specialist care and better integration between general practice, hospitals and social care: (Policy Report 39)
University of Bristol, Policy Bristol, October 2018
The number of people with multiple long-term conditions, known as multimorbidity, is rising internationally, putting increased pressure on health care systems, including the NHS. Researchers from the 3D Study – the largest ever trial of a person-centred approach to caring for patients with multimorbidity in primary care. This report discusses the challenges facing general practice and how the health care system needs to respond. People with multimorbidity – one or more long-term health conditions, such as diabetes, heart disease and dementia – are more likely to experience poor quality of life and poor physical and mental health. They use both general practice and hospital services far more often than the general population. However, healthcare systems around the world are largely designed to manage individual diseases or episodes of illness rather than patients with complex multiple health care needs.
Click here to view the full report.
Should the NHS become more of a lifestyle coach to tackle unhealthy living?
Healthwatch, October 2018
Healthwatch poll of over 2000 UK adults about their confidence in the ability of services to meet their needs today and in 20-30 years’ time. Positively, 61% of respondents are confident that NHS and social care services are currently able to meet their immediate needs. However, when we asked people if they are confident NHS and social care services will able to meet the needs they are likely to have in the future, only 30% agreed. Respondenst had confidence in the NHS and social care services in meeting the needs of their friends and family. 62% were confident that services could currently meet these needs, falling to 27% when we asked people agree if they were confident in the ability of services to meet the needs of their friends and family in 20-30 years time. The top five factors people think will have the biggest impact on the future health of the nation were:
- People’s diets
- The level of exercise in people’s daily lives
- Air pollution, global warming and climate change
- Social isolation and loneliness
- The financial outlook for the country
Click here to view the full report.
Supporting organisations engaging with locums and doctors in short-term placements: A practical guide for healthcare providers, locum agencies and revalidation management services
NHS England, October 2018
This guidance is for any individual or organisation engaging with locum and short-term placement doctors, who often do not have easy access to to systems or structures in place to support their CPD, appraisal, revalidation and governance. This guidance highlights ways they may be supported to provide safe provision of healthcare as a valuable part of the workforce.
Click here to view the full report.
Supporting locums and doctors in short-term placements: A practical guide for doctors in these roles
NHS England, October 2018
This guidance is for locum and short-term placement doctors, who often do not have easy access to systems or structures in place to support their CPD, appraisal, revalidation and governance. This guidance highlights ways they may be supported to provide safe provision of healthcare as a valuable part of the workforce.
Click here to view the full report.
Talking About Dying: How To Begin Honest Conversations About What Lies Ahead
Royal College of Physicians, October 2018
Royal College of Physicians report that highlights and challenges professional reluctance to engage in conversations with patients about uncertainty, treatment ceilings, resuscitation status and death. It offers some ‘mythbusters’ to get physicians thinking and signposts to tools and educational resources to support physicians and other healthcare professionals.
Click here to view the full report.
End of life care: strengthening choice: An inquiry report by the All-Party Parliamentary Group (APPG) for Children Who Need Palliative Care
All-Party Parliamentary Group (APPG) for Children Who Need Palliative Care, October 2018
Report that highlights five areas of particular concern, where many children and their families have limited access to:
- children’s palliative care out of hours and at weekends
- short breaks for respite
- age-appropriate palliative care and smooth transitions to adult services
- specialist children’s palliative care teams led by Level 4 consultants
- advance care planning
Click here to view the full report.
Interface between health and adult social care: Sixty-Third Report of Session 2017–19: Report, together with formal minutes relating to the report
House of Commons Committee of Public Accounts, October 2018
Outlines the widespread consensus that integration and joint working is the right way forward for the health and social care system to deliver the best and most effective outcomes for people and their families. However, it concludes that the Government still lacks an effective overall strategy or plan to achieve its long-held aim to integrate these two sectors.
Click here to view the full report.
Progress of the Five Year Forward View for Mental Health: On the road to parity
All-Party Parliamentary Group on Mental Health, October 2018
All-Party Parliamentary Group on Mental Health report of an in depth inquiry into the progress of the government’s mental health strategy, the Five Year Forward View for Mental Health. The findings can be split into three main themes:
- investing in core services for adults severely affected by mental illness;
- increasing the mental health workforce;
- better oversight and collective responsibility for mental health
Click here to view the full report.
BJPsych Advances – November 2018
The November edition of BJPsych Advances has been published. This issue includes articles on risperidone for psychosis-induced aggression or agitation, boundary violations in therapy, and funding approaches for mental health services.
Click here to view the table of contents. You will need to login with your LCFT OpenAthens account to view the full text articles.