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News from other organisations and
the NHS
Faculty of Medical Leadership and
Management: website and enews
The medical royal colleges and the Academy recently
established the
Faculty of Medical Leadership and Management. The Faculty will
publish monthly updates through its enews.
General Medical Council: The
State of Medical Education and Training
The GMC has launched a new report, The State of Medical Education and
Training, on the nature of medical practice today
and the pressures facing health services.
One in 10 suicides linked to chronic
illness
A new
report from Demos says that much greater attention should be
paid to providing better support for at-risk patients. At
least one person every day takes their life while suffering from a
chronic or terminal illness.
ABPI: new Code of Practice for the
Pharmaceutical Industry
The ABPI has recently published its
new Code of Practice for the Pharmaceutical Industry.The
attached letter from the ABPI
informs us about HMRC’s request to pharmaceutical companies for
information about payments made to members of the medical
profession.
Care Quality Commission: mental
health services survey
The survey
collected the experiences of over 17,000 people who received care
in the 65 NHS mental health trusts in England between July and
September 2010.
NICE Quality Standard for Alcohol
Dependence
The NICE Quality Standards Team has launched
the Quality Standard for Alcohol dependence and harmful alcohol
use.
Department
of Health and NHS
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NHS Future Forum
The government has asked the NHS Future
Forum to continue its conversations with service users and
professionals following its listening exercise on NHS reforms. It
will work on four themes:
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information
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education and training
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integrated care
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the public’s health.
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Common clinical language for NHS to
improve patient care and safety
The Department of Health have proposed a
common clinical language for the NHS to improve electronic
communication between clinicians, both accurately and safely across
England.
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National search for new ideas to
improve the lives of people with dementia
The Department of Health and the Design Council have launched an
initiative that will fund teams to develop new design-led ideas for
products and services that make lives simpler, better and more
enjoyable for those with dementia and their carers by. The Design
Council has launched a social network to access extensive research
on dementia, meet others to form teams, and download the call for
entries. Closing date: 30 September 2011.
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Search for healthcare app
launched
Health Secretary Andrew Lansley has launched a
competition to generate new ideas for healthcare apps to
help patients make informed decisions about their care. Medical
professionals and the public are invited to submit new ideas,
identify their favourite existing health apps and to vote for
others’ ideas. The apps should relate to one of five themes:
personalisation and choice of care and support; better health and
care outcomes; autonomy and accountability; improving public
health; and improving long-term care and support.
£18
million for dementia research announced
The government has
announced an
£800 million investment in health research over the next five
years.
£18 million of this will go towards dementia research. These
monies will be split between four new biomedical research units
specialising in dementia research, at the University of Cambridge,
Newcastle University, Kings College London and University College
London.
Up to 27 million
people living with undiagnosed dementia worldwide
The World Alzheimer Report 2011, 'The benefits of early
diagnosis and intervention', commissioned by Alzheimer's
Disease International estimates that early
diagnosis could create savings of up to US$10,000 (£6,254) per
person. Three-quarters of the estimated 36 million people with
dementia worldwide do not have a formal
diagnosis.
Joseph Rowntree
Foundation: young people, alcohol and the media
A new study explores the representations of alcohol and
drinking in media accessed by young people and how these messages
are interpreted and the influence they had on their drinking.
Personal health
budgets: the views of service users and carers
The NHS Confederation has published a
report that examines the
views of mental health service users and carers on personal health
budgets.
Children in care
at ‘record levels’
Social services are recommending that more
children than ever be taken into care. Record increases in care
applications have been seen since November 2008 with the trial over
the death of Baby P, according to the Children
and Family Court Advisory and Support Service.
SANE launches
nationwide Black Dog
To celebrate the 25th anniversary
of SANE, Black Dog
sculptures have been placed across London and other major UK
cities to raise awareness, reduce stigma and misunderstanding of
mental health problems and to encourage more people to seek help.
The Black Dog has been used as a metaphor for depression from
Classical mythology through to Medieval folklore and contemporary
times. "We hope the physical presence of a black dog will help
people to define their experience of this invisible condition and
provide a language in which to express inner feelings of anxiety,
depression and loneliness,” said Marjorie Wallace, Chief
Executive.
Age Action
Alliance
The Department of Work and Pensions are
supporting Age UK in the development of a wide partnership of
players drawn from public, private and civil society organisations
to take forward a
preventative, community-based approach to improving the quality
of life of the worst off older people.
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