Health emergency of climate change – Episode 1: Discover the role of health professionals in the climate change emergency. Webinar: Tue 16 Mar 2021 from 6:00pm to 7:00pm The world is currently in the grip of the worst health crisis in living memory, but the growing climate change emergency poses a far greater threat to […]
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Rotavirus vaccines made available for use in humanitarian crises: Health partners welcome landmark pricing agreement through Humanitarian Mechanism, urging more manufacturers to follow suit. Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF), Save the Children, UNICEF and the World Health Organization (WHO) welcome the opportunity to make rotavirus vaccine available to more children living in humanitarian crises thanks to […]
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Emergency Departments face continued pressures as 12 hr delays hit 50000 in RCEM Winter Flow Project. Latest data from the Royal College of Emergency Medicine‘s Winter Flow Project shows that in the second week of February 2,359 patients stayed in Emergency Departments for longer than 12 hours across 32 Trusts and Boards in the UK. This represents 4.30% […]
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Nursing applications up by 32 per cent at Bradford University for its nursing courses from 2020 to 2021. This compares to an increase of 20 per cent between 2019 and 2020. The increase mirrors a national rise of around 32 per cent as reported by UCAS (Universities and Colleges Admissions Service). Danielle Woods, lecturer in […]
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DigiHEST: How we reached 29 countries in two days: The David Nott Foundation recently completed our first digital, live-streamed surgical training course. In December, we piloted our first ever (DigiHEST) course. We transformed an office space, generously provided by Whitby Wood, into an operating theatre and our friends at Redux Content decked the place out […]
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Launch of multimillion pound institute for health technology research and innovation in Manchester: Tuesday, 12 January saw a consortium led by The University of Manchester launch a new multimillion pound research and innovation institute that will build on Manchester’s academic strengths in digital health and advanced materials to discover innovative health and care solutions. Named […]
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Doctors in distress: Beneath the White Coat: Doctors Their Minds and Mental Health, the new book by Dame Clare Gerada. Society puts doctors on a pedestal and the medical culture reinforces this state of elevation. Our bio-medical approach to the doctor–patient relationship takes as a given that the doctor has authority and status of being […]
Alcohol abuse: why some veterans are suffering in silence: After their service, ex-forces’ personnel return to civilian life. While most transition and thrive in their new lifestyle and career, some find the adjustment more difficult. Here, Dr Paula Holt MBE, Pro Vice-Chancellor Dean of the College of Health, Psychology and Social Care at the University […]
Jacque Morrow, 43, a staff sergeant in the British Army based in Amesbury, was diagnosed with breast cancer in January 2020 and had a mastectomy just before lockdown. Here she tells how she coped with post-surgery chemotherapy during lockdown and how the army has supported her and her family over the last stressful 10 months. […]
Dr Halim Boubaker, MSF medical coordinator for Northwest Syria reports Ten-fold increase in coronavirus cases adds new challenges in northwest Syria Northwest Syria is currently witnessing a sharp increase in the number of patients with COVID-19, which is now ten times higher than what it was just a month ago. As of 22 September, 640 people had tested […]