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IN THE KNOW: Keeping Staff Informed
Volume 15 (21) May 2020
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In this issue:
IN THE SPOTLIGHT
MANX SKEET
STAFF HEALTH & WELLBEING
HOT OFF THE PRESS
PUBLIC HEALTH
EVIDENCE BASED PRACTICE
SOCIAL AND COMMUNITY CARE
HEALTH MANAGEMENT
PATIENT INFORMATION
LIBRARY BITS AND PIECES
IN THE SPOTLIGHT – COVID-19
First human trial of COVID-19 vaccine finds it is safe and induces rapid immune response
Why COVID-19 may be less common in children than adults
STAFF HEALTH & WELLBEING
High stress related to coronavirus is the new normal for many parents, says new APA survey
An A to Z of old words to calm and inspire hope
'I prefer being physically distant. What happens if I don't want to return to normal life?'
Smug introvert or urban escape artist? Find out your pandemic personality
Where Has My Motivation Gone And How On Earth Do I Get It Back?!
Public parks guaranteeing sustainable well-being
Charity launches clinically supervised wellbeing service for health staff
Green spaces benefit health and wellbeing
Impact of major life events on wellbeing
Useful links
Patient.co.uk
NHS Website
Mental Health Foundation
World Health Organisation
MANX SKEET
Island firm delivers £1,500 worth of PPE to key workers
Wholesaler donates nearly 170 face masks to charity
Local firm helps get ventilators to Island
Committee to hear evidence on Abbotswood
Successful start for prescription delivery service
HOT OFF THE PRESS
BBC News
(Asterisked items have been critically reviewed in Behind the Headlines. See below.)
Coronavirus: 'Baffling' observations from the front line
Coronavirus: Sports events in March 'caused increased suffering and
death'
Coronavirus: WHO halts trials of hydroxychloroquine over safety
fears
Coronavirus: Can we stay safe as lockdown eases?
Coronavirus: UK authorises anti-viral drug remdesivir
Coronavirus: Can it affect eyesight?
Coronavirus deaths fall to six-week low
Coronavirus: NHS app paves the way for 'immunity passports'
Coronavirus cure: When will we have a drug to treat it?
Coronavirus deaths fall to six-week low
Coronavirus: Paramedics assaulted after mask requests
Hairdressers say they are ready to open in June
Coronavirus: Schools and workplaces could see 'local lockdowns'
Coronavirus deaths in US top 100,000
Coronavirus: Test and trace system kicks off in England and Scotland
Waiting lists: 307,000 wait for first consultant appointment
Coronavirus test workers 'making personal sacrifices'
Coronavirus: Young people going to A&E down 60%
'I have the most antibodies in the UK'
Coronavirus: R number 'very similar' across UK
About 7% have had coronavirus, says ONS survey
NHS Seacole: Covid-19 rehab centre takes first patients
Coronavirus: Dental practices to reopen from 8 June
Coronavirus: Care home residents account for more than half of NI
deaths
Coronavirus: Parents of disabled children 'cut off and ignored'
Useful Health Links
NHS Website: A-Z of health conditions
NHS Website
Check NHS standards near you
Cancer Help UK
British Heart Foundation
Health and Care Professions Council
Mental Health Foundation
General Medical Council
Nursing and Midwifery Council
Care Quality Commission
NICE
NHS Scotland
Health in Wales
NI Direct
Clinical trials information
Diabetes UK
British Lung Foundation
National Obesity Forum
Your health, your choices
Bulletins
(click to open)
Bulletin for clinical commissioning groups (CCGs)
Chief Nursing Bulletin
Chief Scientific Officer Bulletin
Compassion in Practice strategy and 6Cs Live!
Liaison and Diversion Bulletin
Pharmacy and Medicines Bulletin
Primary Care Bulletin
Specialised Commissioning Stakeholder Bulletin
Revalidation Matters
Liaison and Diversion Bulletin
Specialised Commissioning Stakeholder Bulletin
PUBLIC HEALTH
Health e-News Bulletin/NLH Public Health Newsletter
NICE News 27 May 2020
Adult Protection & Safeguarding Domestic Violence
In lockdown, violence soars behind closed doors
How can HR spot the signs of domestic violence during lockdown?
Addiction
Coronavirus: Lockdown leaves addicts 'close to relapse'
Allergies
New insight into allergies could improve diagnosis and treatment
Peanut allergy study reveals psychosocial burden on allergic individuals
Cardiovascular Disease
Complete vs Culprit-Lesion-Only Revascularization for ST-Segment Elevation Myocardial Infarction
Glasgow heart scientists fast-track coronavirus research
8 weeks on fruit- and vegetable-rich diets tied to better heart health
Heart surgery stalled as COVID-19 spread
Complementary Medicine / Alternative Medicine
What uses does rubbing alcohol have?
Can you unblock fallopian tubes with natural remedies?
Aloe vera for sunburn: Does it work?
Dental
Mouthwash may reduce spread of the new coronavirus
Record number call NHS for dental treatment in face of COVID-19
GSK announces support for Back to Practice campaign
Dementia
Blood pressure lowering reduces risk of developing dementia
Research reveals gene role in both dementia and severe Covid-19
Diabetes
Researchers to explore how effective digital technologies is in diabetes prevention
Study pinpoints risk factors for young people developing type 2 diabetes
Diet, Nutrition and Obesity
Vitamin C and fasting-mimicking diet can shrink tumors
NIH releases strategic plan to accelerate nutrition research over next 10 years
5 of the best mass gainers for building muscle mass
How much does weight fluctuate?
Digital Health Technology
New technology can detect anti-virus antibody in 20 minutes
BCS survey reveals contact-tracing app skepticism
Innovation grant scheme for healthtech start-ups launched by HEE
Multifunctional e-glasses monitor health, protect eyes, control video games
Immunisation and Infection
How better home hygiene could curb antibiotic resistance
COVID-19 vaccine development: New guidelines for ethical approach to infecting trial volunteers
Men’s Health
Sugars could be the key to an earlier, more accurate test for prostate cancer
What are the signs of high testosterone?
Frenulum tear: Is it serious?
Mental Health
New approach to some mental disorders
What is adjustment disorder? Everything you need to know
How to manage anxiety about food
Coronavirus is whipping up a mental health storm for NHS workers
Neurology
Diagnostic Performance of RO948 F 18 Tau Positron Emission Tomography in the Differentiation of Alzheimer Disease From Other
Neurodegenerative Disorders
A child's brain activity reveals their memory ability
Where stress lives
Clues to COVID-19 in the brain uncovered in new study
Obstetrics
Placentas from COVID-19-positive pregnant women show injury
Glucose levels linked to maternal mortality even in non-diabetic women
High-strain exercise linked to very early pregnancy loss
Exposure to 'good bacteria' during pregnancy buffers risk of autism-like syndrome
Oncology
Study reveals first evidence inherited genetics can drive cancer's spread
NICE recommends treatment for type of small-cell lung cancer
Combining different biopsies limits uncertainty in prostate cancer diagnosis
New understanding of RNA movements can be used to treat cancer
Ophthalmology
Inexpensive retinal diagnostics via smartphone
A new law in laser physics could make eye surgery simpler
What causes crusty eyes or sticky eyes?
Paediatrics
Associations Between Maternal Antenatal Corticosteroid Treatment and Mental and Behavioral Disorders in Children
Association Between Prenatal Exposure to Alcohol and Tobacco and Neonatal Brain Activity
Children's temperament traits affect their motor skills
Children may not always grow out of being picky eaters
Autism severity can change substantially during early childhood
Pharmacology
New drug combination being tested to conquer COVID-19
Taking inventory of which drugs the world is using to treat COVID-19
Sexual Health
What is the purpose of pubic hair?
What is the refractory period, and can you reduce it?
What to know about vaginal tightness and dryness
Sleep
How do we disconnect from the environment during sleep and under anesthesia?
The Importance of Sleep: The Effect of Good Night's Sleep on Health and Wellbeing
Why Am I Always Tired? Experts Explain Why You Feel Constantly Exhausted
Sports Medicine/Fitness
High blood pressure during and after exercise may be markers for disease later in life
Human growth hormone treatment after ACL injury may prevent loss of muscle strength
Substance Abuse
Problems with alcohol? 29 gene variants may explain why
Surgery
Surgery Scheduling in a Crisis
Surgeons study guidelines for treating cancer patients during pandemic
What to know about a corneal transplant
Vaping/Smoking
Tobacco smoking and COVID-19 infection
People who smoke may have more receptors for the new coronavirus
Global recognition for RACGP smoking cessation guidelines
World Health Organisation
At least 80 million children under one at risk of diseases such as diphtheria, measles and polio as COVID-19 disrupts routine vaccination efforts,
warn Gavi, WHO and UNICEF
WHO receives first-ever donation of insulin
WHO launches new search feature for questions on COVID-19
WHO Manifesto for a healthy recovery from COVID-19
SOCIAL AND COMMUNITY CARE
Social Care
DfE to expand trials placing social workers in schools
Three councils return to Care Act compliance leaving four authorities suspending duties
Social work podcasts to support you through Covid-19
Three councils return to Care Act compliance leaving four authorities suspending duties
Government urged to end social care reform delays
Significant regional variation in COVID-19 care home deaths
Murdered teen ‘served poorly’ by lack of guidance around county lines victims found away from home area
ADASS president: social care can’t go back to austerity post-Covid crisis
Safeguarding adults with dementia during the COVID-19 crisis
Surviving the pandemic: new challenges for adult social care and the social care market
Most social workers say Covid-19 has negatively hit their work and the lives of those they support
Key Resources
Social Care TV
e–Learning
Social Care Online
Research Register for Social Care
Social Care Research Ethics Committee
All SCIE resources
HEALTH MANAGEMENT
Children in care can be vaccinated against parents’ wishes without
court action
Creating space for conversations
Tough challenges but new possibilities: shaping the post Covid-19
world with the voluntary, community and social enterprise sector
Covid-19 and acute kidney injury in hospital: summary of NICE
guidelines
Covid-19: Roll out of 10m antibody tests to begin next week,
government announces
Minimum bridging competencies for general practice nurses
transitioning to community nursing: for use during Covid-19
pandemic
Anosmia: Five minutes with ENT consultant Claire Hopkins
Skincare advice for nurses during COVID-19 pandemic
Coronavirus (Covid-19): antibody tests
Coronavirus (Covid-19): providing home care
Covid-19: Selected NHS patients will be treated with remdesivir
Damage may be done to public and NHS staff confidence in
government guidance
Home-produced PPE will be a significant step towards a more secure
supply
ONS mortality figures are reminder lockdown is working
Test, track and trace must draw on local expertise
The Covid-19 pandemic, financial inequality and mental health
Covid-19: WHO halts hydroxychloroquine trial to review links with
increased mortality risk
Age, death risk, and the design of an exit strategy: a guide for
policymakers and for citizens who want to stay alive
NHS hospital car parking policies in the UK
NMC responds to the RCN survey that shows BAME nursing staff
experience greatest PPE shortages
Returning NHS waiting times to 18 weeks for routine treatment: the
scale of the challenge pre-Covid-19
The supplementary budget emphasises how far we have to travel in
the battle against Coronavirus
Guidance for contacts of people with possible or confirmed
coronavirus (Covid-19) infection who do not live with the person
How do we secure more effective place-based primary care networks
for the long-term?
Loneliness, social isolation and Covid-19: practical advice
Maternity unit under investigation for baby deaths was often
operating without senior doctor
NHS Test and Trace: how it works
NHS Test and Trace: workplace guidance
NLGN Leadership Index – edition #9: Covid-19
Our new enemy is complacency as we take small steps towards
normality
Preventing and managing the Covid-19 pandemic across long-term
care services in the WHO European Region
Protecting “covid protected” cancer hubs
Second personal protective equipment (PPE) survey of UK nursing
staff report
Six-country survey on Covid-19
Understanding the provision of occupational health and work-related
musculoskeletal services
I'm an NHS consultant. We're exhausted – and a second surge is on
its way
PATIENT INFORMATION
What to do if you need contraception or abortion care during lockdown
Does diabetes increase your risk of coronavirus?
What to do if you have a dental emergency during the lockdown
EVIDENCE BASED PRACTICE
BMJ Evidence Updates
Extra-skeletal Ewing’s sarcoma of the frontal sinus: a rare disorder in pediatric age
Distortion of dual energy X-ray images by faecal masses in a child with type 1 diabetes
Severe statin-induced autoimmune myopathy successfully treated with intravenous immunoglobulin
Surprise of Behcet’s disease in a patient with bilateral disc oedema and the role of OCT
Fetal congenital midaortic syndrome with unilateral renal artery stenosis prenatally presenting with polyhydramnios and postpartum as
hyponatremic hypertensive syndrome
Prolonged cholestasis after acute viral hepatitis: successfully treated with oral steroid
Night-time confusion in an elderly woman post-stroke
Customised three-dimensional printed revision acetabular implant for large defect after failed triflange revision cup
Cochrane
Video calls for reducing social isolation and loneliness in older people
Factors affecting use of nicotine replacement therapy and e-cigarettes in pregnancy
Interventions for increasing eating of fruit and vegetables in children aged five years and under
Non-nutritive sweeteners for diabetes mellitus
Mental practice to improve arm function and arm movement in individuals with hemiparesis after stroke
Strategies for optimising antenatal corticosteroid administration for women with anticipated preterm birth
Vitamin D supplementation for sickle cell disease
Growth hormone therapy for people with thalassaemia
NICE Clinical Knowledge Summaries provides primary care practitioners with a readily accessible summary of the current evidence base and
practical guidance on best practice in respect of over 300 common and/or significant primary care presentations.
The service is being regularly maintained and upgraded as and when significant new evidence emerges and up to 10 new topics will be added
each year. You can access the service here.
To suggest a new topic, please contact us.
DoH Press Releases/New Publications
£300 million additional funding for local authorities to support new test and trace service
Selected NHS patients to access coronavirus treatment remdesivir
Government significantly boosts UK PPE supply with more than 100 new deals
Government launches NHS Test and Trace service
£5 million funding given to mental health community projects
LIBRARY “BITS AND PIECES”
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