IN THE KNOW: Keeping Staff Informed

Volume 15 (13) April 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

How to look after your mental health during a pandemic

Coronavirus myths explored

STAFF HEALTH & WELLBEING

9 Desk And Chair Hacks To Make Working From Home More Bearable

How I Cope: Counting Colours On My Daily Walk Keeps Anxiety At Bay

Is It All A Dream? Why Coronavirus Makes Us Question Reality

How social media makes it difficult to identify real news

It’s bliss, arriving early – so why am I always late?

The new rules of lockdown: how to stay clean, safe and two metres away from everyone

'Start a daily routine – and make the weekends different': the isolation experts' guide to lockdown living

Social distancing and exercise: are active video games the solution?

Useful links

Patient.co.uk

NHS Website

Mental Health Foundation

World Health Organisation

MANX SKEET

Non-essential GP appointments stopped

Manx Solidarity Fund launched

Covid community support helpline is launched

No set time limits on exercise, but be sensible

All elective cancer surgery cancelled

Mental health charity launching 'Zoom Cafe'

Maternity care reorganised to protect women and babies

Local businesses helping to build essential medical equipment

Nobles Nurse Speaks Out at Fears Over Patient & Staff Safety

Ambulance service sets up Incident Command Centre

First patient dies from COVID-19 on Isle of Man

Douglas building to turn blue in tribute to key workers

Covid crisis prompts big changes to maternity care

Pharmacies change opening hours

Brain tumour charity continuing its support

Ramsey signs to indicate if support is needed

Number of corona cases tops 100

Virus much more widespread than test results show

HOT OFF THE PRESS

BBC News

(Asterisked items have been critically reviewed in Behind the Headlines. See below.)

Coronavirus: Self-isolation when you are affected by dementia

Coronavirus: Testing rolled out for frontline NHS staff

How the UK’s coronavirus epidemic compares to other countries

Coronavirus: What we still don't know about Covid-19

Coronavirus: Six months before UK 'returns to normal' - deputy chief

medical officer

Coronavirus: 20,000 former NHS staff return to fight virus, PM says

Coronavirus: Mercedes F1 to make breathing aid

Coronavirus: NHS Nightingale work for Virgin and EasyJet staff

Coronavirus: Pastor Mark McClurg released from hospital

Coronavirus: Healthy Scots urged to become volunteers

Coronavirus field hospital could open in two weeks

Coronavirus: Lifting prevention measures 'trial and error'

Coronavirus: Home abortions approved during outbreak

Blood test 'can check for more than 50 types of cancer'

Coronavirus: UK measures 'making a difference'

Coronavirus: Man told he must sleep on streets to get help

Abortion: New laws come into force in Northern Ireland

Coronavirus: Edinburgh hospital 'calm, controlled and ready'

Coronavirus: How Wales' approach differs from England

Coronavirus: GP surgery apology over 'do not resuscitate' form

Coronavirus: Greatest test since World War Two, says UN chief

Coronavirus: 13-year-old boy dies, says London hospital trust

Coronavirus: Potential drug treatment starts UK trials

Coronavirus: Are loss of smell and taste key symptoms?

Coronavirus: Hospitals urged to use lab space to test NHS staff

Coronavirus: Student doctors graduate early to join fight

Coronavirus: Southend Hospital staff could 'limit work' over

protective equipment

Coronavirus: Officials examine possible NI field hospital sites

NI could see 3,000 deaths in Covid-19 'first wave'

Temporary Glasgow coronavirus hospital 'may not be needed'

Coronavirus: Extra tests would have made a difference, says minister

Coronavirus: Home abortions allowed in Wales during pandemic

Coronavirus: Dental patients 'could lose teeth'

Coronavirus: NHS 111 has 1.7 million queries in 15 days

Coronavirus: Health experts 'frustrated' by low UK virus testing

Coronavirus: Expert panel to assess face mask use by public

Coronavirus: Should the UK use drones to disinfect public spaces?

Don't send rainbow pictures to Nightingale hospital, NHS says

Coronavirus: 'I was left gasping for air'

Coronavirus: 'I had to leave my son to help save lives'

Coronavirus: 'Anxiety rose after lockdown was introduced'

Coronavirus: City Hospital to host NI's first Nightingale

Coronavirus in Scotland: What is it like on the medical frontline?

Coronavirus: Cardiff hospital ready for 'huge wave'

Coronavirus: Where are the extra hospital beds in Wales going?

Coronavirus: Ill Swansea man 'stranded with dwindling drugs'

Coronavirus: Wrexham girl cannot travel for tumour treatment

Clap for Carers: UK applauds NHS staff and key workers

Coronavirus: Hospital phone charges 'scandalous'

Coronavirus: Doctors face agonising life-death decisions

Coronavirus: Nurse Areema Nasreen dies with Covid-19

Coronavirus: Nightingale Hospital opens at London's ExCel centre

Coronavirus: Test goal will take 'huge amount of work', says

Hancock

Coronavirus: Looking after your mental health during isolation

Coronavirus: Maternity services Causeway Hospital to stop

Coronavirus: NI 'too slow' on virus testing, says O'Neill

Coronavirus: Building work begins at temporary hospital at

Glasgow's SEC

Coronavirus: Why isn't Scotland advising the use of face masks?

Coronavirus: Morriston doctor predicts Easter peak for virus cases

Coronavirus: Donors urged to travel further to give blood

Lack of childcare 'forcing key workers to stay home'

Coronavirus: Worst-hit communities to receive charity boost

Coronavirus: Google reveals travel habits during the pandemic

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 Evidence Resources Library Bulletin March 2020

NICE News Weekly Update on COVID 19

WHO Bulletin April 2020

Adult Protection & Safeguarding Domestic Violence

For people with an abusive partner, lockdown means captivity

Calls for funds to house domestic violence victims during Covid-19 outbreak

Addiction

Recovering addicts more at risk of relapse amid coronavirus, experts warn

Isolation will fuel gambling addiction. We must protect those at risk

Exercise addiction is a real mental health condition, but it is still poorly understood

Cardiovascular Disease

COVID-19 linked to cardiac injury, worse outcomes for patients with heart conditions

New quantum technology could help diagnose and treat heart condition

Study: Regular Tub Bathing Linked to Lower Risk of Death From Cardiovascular Disease

'Smart' devices effective in reducing adverse outcomes of heart condition

A 'cardiac patch with bioink' developed to repair heart

Critical Care

Covid-19 places critical care nurses ‘front and centre’ as leaders

Coronavirus patients in UK intensive care have 50% survival rate

Intensive care for coronavirus patients now limited to those 'reasonably certain' to survive, NHS London trust admits

NICE updates rapid COVID-19 guideline on critical care

Dental

Word of Mouth: March 2020

Dementia

Air pollution linked to dementia and cardiovascular disease

Coronavirus: Dementia patients experiencing increased levels of confusion during pandemic

Sleep apnea linked with Alzheimer's–like changes to the brain

Diabetes

Covid-19: diabetes clinicians set up social media account to help alleviate patients’ fears

Wearable device lets patients with type 2 diabetes safely use affordable insulin option

COVID-19 measures are “making a difference”

Top NHS expert urges people with diabetes to “stay home unless essential” amid COVID-19

Diet, Nutrition and Obesity

Soy-based foods may promote heart health

Coronavirus: How to eat healthily while in lockdown

Digital Health Technology

How robots can help combat COVID-19

Strike while the iron is hot: why we need to go further on digital health

Covid-19: NHS to trial digital passports to free up staff movement

‘World’s first’ multi-user conversational robots to support elderly healthcare

NHS staff given free access to mental health apps amid Covid-19 outbreak

Oxford University launches Covid-19 government response tracker

New digital service ‘to allow every UK GP surgery to offer remote consults’

End of Life Care

Coronavirus: Doctors urge 'difficult conversations' about death

End-of-life care during Covid-19: Tips for GPs

Hospices issue dire warning of closures as coronavirus sparks cutbacks in end of life care

Immunisation and Infection

A new way to study HIV's impact on the brain

Some COVID-19 patients still have coronavirus after symptoms disappear

How to boost immune response to vaccines in older people

Covid-19 – The tipping point?

Trial drug can significantly block early stages of COVID-19 in engineered human tissues

Phage capsid against influenza: Perfectly fitting inhibitor prevents viral infection

Mental Health

UK poll finds young people's mental health hit by coronavirus

Managers must improve mental health support during coronavirus crisis

Mental health and psychosocial considerations during Covid-19 outbreak

Mental wellbeing while staying at home

Specialised Services Quality Dashboards: mental health restrictive practice metric definitions for 2020/21

Neurology

Stroke Horizon Scanning Bulletin Volume 12 Issue 2

Cellular train track deformities shed light on neurological disease

How cognitive intelligence is a whole brain phenomenon

Understanding how the protein tau moves between neurons yields insight into possible treatments for neurodegenerative diseases

How dopamine drives brain activity

Engineers 3D print soft, rubbery brain implants

Oncology

Disasters can affect cervical cancer screening for years

Cancer tumors gain drug resistance by eating dead cells

Tumor cell type identified that makes prostate cancer more aggressive

Ophthalmology

Lipid helps heal the eye's frontline protection

Tell-tale conjunctival hemorrhages

Advances in production of retinal cells for treating blindness

Patient Experience

Panic attacks and sleepless nights: how coronavirus is affecting your mental health and what you can do about it

Patient Safety

Patient deaths linked to long-standing failings at trust’s maternity unit

Patient safety alert issued by NHS over oxygen machine risks

Pharmacology

Is the anti-flu drug Avigan effective in treating COVID-19?

Study helps to identify medications which are safe to use in treatment of COVID-19

Potential of using psychedelic drugs in psychiatry

Seniors and Aging

Longer lives not dependent on increased energy use

Falls Prevention Scanning Bulletin Volume 9 Issue 5

Caring for seniors during COVID-19 pandemic

Heavy drinking into older age adds 4 cm to waistline

Sexual Health

Microbiome may hold key to identifying HPV-infected women at risk for pre-cancer

Coronavirus and contraception: are sexual health clinics still open during lockdown?

Coronavirus: People urged ‘not to hook up’ for sex until lockdown is over

Experiences of undesired effects of hormonal contraception

Sleep

How Working Parents Can Prioritize Sleep

Why the coronavirus pandemic is wrecking your sleep – and how to sort it

Sports Medicine/Fitness

Regular exercise benefits immunity -- even in isolation

Cells must age for muscles to regenerate in muscle-degenerating diseases

Substance Abuse

Legal marijuana products too strong for pain relief

New research sheds light on potentially negative effects of cannabis

The placebo effect and psychedelic drugs: Tripping on nothing?

Surgery

Guidance for surgeons working during the COVID-19 pandemic

Spina bifida surgery before birth restores brain structure

Women’s Health

Weight gain may reduce risk of breast cancer before menopause

Consuming extra calories can help exercising women avoid menstrual disorders

World Health Organisation

Information sharing on COVID-19

New WHO Guide to help countries expand access to essential medicines

WHO releases guidelines to help countries maintain essential health services during the COVID-19 pandemic

WHO and Rakuten Viber fight COVID-19 misinformation with interactive chatbot

SOCIAL AND COMMUNITY CARE

Social Care

Exc: Five areas to be examined by PRSB as it sets standards for social care

Frontline master’s pass rate misses DfE target for latest cohort to complete programme

‘Inadequate’ authority must speed up improvements for children in care, warns Ofsted

Covid-19: AMHPs’ protective equipment needs not sufficiently considered, warn sector leaders

Covid-19: lack of pandemic protocols leaves social work playing catch-up, warns BASW chief

Social worker one of two employees at council to die after contracting Covid-19

Coronavirus: government gives PSWs critical role in council decisions to depart from Care Act

Three ways social workers can support children in care

Tool to match temporarily registered social workers with roles during coronavirus crisis launches

Placements closing, online lectures and uncertain futures: Covid-19’s impact on social work students

Sharing lives and self-isolating

How to support people with long-term health conditions living in their own homes self-isolating

‘As soon a crisis occurs, it can get unmanageable’: what children’s social workers said about caseloads

Social work caseloads: practitioners in the North of England feeling the greatest strain

More than 70% of children’s social workers struggled with caseloads on eve of Covid-19 crisis, survey reveals

Social work teams depleting due to coronavirus, warns BASW as it calls for priority testing for practitioners

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

NHS support via text message for people with symptoms of Covid-19

NHS to open two more new hospitals to fight coronavirus

Health and care: the first 100 days of the new government

England’s most senior nurse calls out unacceptable behaviour

towards NHS staff

Why do doctors in the dock face a double jeopardy?

NHS volunteer responders: 250,000 target smashed with three

quarters of a million committing to volunteer

Covid-19: Doctors still at “considerable risk” from lack of PPE, BMA

warns

Prevent, detect, respond: How community health workers can help

in the fight against covid-19

Automatic NHS visa extensions a welcome step from Government

Covid-19 response: PSNC negotiations action list

Covid-19: additional funding allocations

Covid-19: NHS datasets ‘not sophisticated enough’ to flag high risk

patients

Covid-19: return to practice learning plan

Covid-19: tips for housing sector on end of life care

Guidance for parents and carers on supporting children and young

people’s mental health and wellbeing during the coronavirus (Covid-

19) outbreak

Guidance for the public on the mental health and wellbeing aspects

of coronavirus (Covid-19)

Guidance on social distancing for everyone in the UK

Technical specifications for personal protective equipment (PPE)

Using machine learning in diagnostic services: a report with

recommendations from CQC’s regulatory sandbox

Blood control safety cannula and needle thoracostomy for tension

pneumothorax

Care Act easements: guidance for local authorities

Children of the pandemic: policies needed to support children during

the Covid-19 crisis

Covid-19: doctors’ visas are automatically extended for one year

Covid-19: Hospitals can remove 15% cap on testing of NHS staff

Covid-19: Use radiotherapy only if “unavoidable,” says NICE

Interruption of high flow nasal oxygen during transfer

Joint statement on expanding the nursing and midwifery workforce

in the Covid-19 pandemic

Medication beliefs and use of medication lists – is there a

connection? Results from a before-and-after study in Germany

New Covid-19 assessment tool in Patientrack to help staff intervene

early

Public satisfaction with the NHS rose sharply in 2019

PATIENT INFORMATION

COVID-19 coronavirus: when will we have a vaccine?

When should you worry about a fussy eater?

Covid-19: Rules on sharing confidential patient information are relaxed in England

QUALITY IMPROVEMENT AGENDA

Why healthcare leadership should embrace quality improvement

EVIDENCE BASED PRACTICE

Antibiotic prophylaxis for operative vaginal delivery

Health workers’ perceptions and experiences of using mHealth technologies to deliver primary healthcare services: a qualitative evidence

synthesis

Coronavirus (COVID-19): evidence relevant to critical care

Coronavirus (COVID-19): infection control and prevention measures

Coronavirus (COVID-19): effective options for quitting smoking during the pandemic

Treatments for the prevention of Sudden Unexpected Death in Epilepsy (SUDEP)

Coronavirus (COVID-19): effective options for quitting smoking during the pandemic

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.

National Institute for Health Research (NIHR) Health Technology Assessment

Annual Report 2018/2019

Life saving breathing aid developed to keep COVID-19 patients out of intensive care

NIHR launches new Centre for Engagement and Dissemination

New NIHR Public Health Research (PHR) Programme Director appointed

UK’s top doctors urge recruitment of Covid-19 patients for vital scientific research

DoH Press Releases/New Publications

Government launches new drive on coronavirus tests for frontline NHS staff

Coronavirus (COVID-19): letter from the Secretary of State to the social care workforce

New advice to support mental health during coronavirus outbreak

First new ventilators to roll off production line this weekend as industry answers call to step up manufacturing

New personal protective equipment (PPE) guidance for NHS teams

NHS to benefit from £13.4 billion debt write-off

Health Secretary sets out plan to carry out 100,000 coronavirus tests a day

£300 million announced for community pharmacies to support them during coronavirus outbreak

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