Health News Digest

23rd October 2020

(covering news from the 16th October 2020)

This weekly digest contains details of the latest health-related news/articles in the general media and press releases from Public Health England and other health related bodies.Blue Tape Measuring on Clear Glass Square Weighing Scale

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Public Health England

NHS population screening: inequalities strategy

Emergency department: weekly bulletins for 2020

National ambulance syndromic surveillance: weekly bulletins 2020

Remote health advice: weekly bulletins for 2020

GP in hours: weekly bulletins for 2020

GP out-of-hours syndromic surveillance: weekly bulletins for 2020

Syndromic surveillance: weekly summaries for 2020

Wider impacts of COVID-19 on health monitoring tool

Seasonal flu vaccine uptake (frontline workers): data collection

Notifiable diseases: last 52 weeks

Tuberculosis by country: rates per 100,000 people

Notifiable diseases: causative agents report for 2020

COMEAP: reports and statements

Air pollutants: quantification of associated health effects

 

Local Government Association

https://www.local.gov.uk/

‘This is the ‘dreaded’ second wave’

‘It feels like we are impotent at times – we need the power to do our jobs’

COVID-19: Early years childcare sufficiency and sustainability planning for Spring 2021, 22 October 2020

‘Factory outbreak encapsulated challenge we face in containing virus’

LGA responds to further details around £1 billion COVID-19 funding for councils

LGA responds to Health and Social Care Committee report on social care funding and workforce

How Leicester rose to the challenge of the first local lockdown

‘We have done it once, we can do it again’

LGA responds to Skills for Care workforce report

‘Why the polarised nature of debate worries me’

LGA responds to improvements in housing support for vulnerable people

LGA responds to Carers UK report on support for unpaid carers

Modern slavery in local government supply chains: transparency statement guidance and procedures

Copyright © Local Government Association 2020

 

The King’s Fund

http://www.kingsfund.org.uk

Response to the Health and Social Care Select Committee inquiry into workforce burnout and resilience in the NHS and social care

The material featured on this site is subject to King’s Fund copyright protection unless otherwise indicated.

 

The Health Foundation

https://www.health.org.uk/news-and-comment/news

Fundamental reform of social care needed if country is to ‘build back better’

Survey presents a worrying picture of children’s and young people’s mental health

Copyright © The Health Foundation

 

The Nuffield Trust

Legislation

 

Latest Health-Related News Links

BBC Health News Online

Newspapers

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The Independent

http://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/health-and-families/health-news/

How existing medicines can help strengthen vulnerable immune systems

© Independent.co.uk 2020

 

The Guardian

https://society.guardian.co.uk/health/

Covid slump in medical charity donations ‘puts research at risk’

PM admits failings as England’s Covid contact-tracing system hits new low

One in six children aged 5-16 in England ‘likely to have a mental disorder’

Nightingale to reopen as Liverpool sets new Covid patient record

London council sets up own same-day Covid testing service

England to require ethnicity on death certificates to help tackle Covid-19

Diets rich in tea, berries and apples could lower blood pressure – study

Parents struggle to get help for mentally ill children during pandemic

Figures lay bare toll of pandemic on UK children’s mental health

Racial discrimination widespread in NHS job offers, says report

Polluted air killing half a million babies a year across globe

Covid: prisoner mental health at risk of ‘irreparable damage’

Hunt on for future Covid mutations that cause treatments to lose potency

UK to spend £30m on trials infecting young people to hasten Covid vaccine

Equality gains in the UK risk being reversed by coronavirus, says EHRC

Covid vaccine will not be available in UK until spring, says Vallance

Lung cancer cases could be mistaken for Covid, charities warn

A third more deaths occurring at home than before Covid in England

Operation Moonshot: pilot of rapid Covid tests under way in NHS hospitals

Charities fear impact of masks on deaf children in UK schools

NHS hospital admissions for eating disorders rise among ethnic minorities

White noise as sleep aid may do more harm than good, say scientists

Police 999 callouts to people suffering mental health crises soar

UK ‘sleepwalking’ to mental health crisis as pandemic takes its toll

Digital ‘health passport’ trials under way to aid reopening of borders

NHS Covid-19 app users sent incorrect risk-level change alerts

Covid reinfections ‘to be expected’ as virus spreads, say government scientists

Midwives, physios and pharmacists to administer future UK Covid vaccine

Copyright © 2020 The Guardian

 

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