This weekly digest contains details of the latest health-related news/articles in the general media, new publications of interest and press releases from the Department of Health.  The digest has 6 key sections,

•  Department of Health
•  Practice Based Commissioning
•  Legislation
•  Latest Health-related News Links
•  Newspapers
•  ‘Other Sources’ which are less frequently updated

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News Desk

https://www.gov.uk/government/announcements?departments%5B%5D=department-of-health

Government commits to reform the Mental Health Act

100,000 whole genomes sequenced in the NHS

NHS to save £1 billion on its medicines bill in 2019

Together let’s renew the call for action to defeat dementia

Government review to improve the lives of autistic children

£1.3 billion industry/government investment in UK economy and new partnership driving early disease detection

AIDSfree appeal: Government joins campaign to fight HIV and AIDS

Public Health

Monkeypox case in England

Funding to help improve the lives of those affected by alcohol

New Publications

https://www.gov.uk/government/publications?departments%5B%5D=department-of-health

Supplementary guidance for criminal justice intervention teams

Diabetic eye screening: audit schedule

GP out-of-hours syndromic surveillance: weekly bulletins for 2018

Syndromic surveillance: weekly summaries for 2018

Remote health advice: weekly bulletins for 2018

Emergency department: weekly bulletins for 2018

GP in hours: weekly bulletins for 2018

Scarlet fever: symptoms, diagnosis and treatment

Notifiable diseases: last 52 weeks

Notifiable diseases: weekly reports for 2018

Safeguarding children affected by parental alcohol and drug use

Typhoid and paratyphoid: laboratory confirmed cases in England, Wales and Northern Ireland

Notifiable diseases: causative agents report for 2018

Cardiovascular disease prevention: action plan

Legionnaires’ disease monthly surveillance reports: 2018

Nitrobenzene: health effects, incident management and toxicology

Statistics and Surveys

http://www.england.nhs.uk/statistics

Dementia Assessment and Referral data collection – Q2 2018-19

Weekly all-cause mortality surveillance: 2018 to 2019

Weekly national flu reports: 2018 to 2019 season

Norovirus and rotavirus: summary of surveillance 2018 to 2019

Substance misuse treatment for young people: statistics 2017 to 2018

P.aeruginosa bacteraemia: monthly data by onset and NHS trust

MSSA bacteraemia: monthly data by NHS acute trust and onset status

Klebsiella spp. bacteraemia: monthly data by onset and NHS trust

C.difficile infection: monthly data by NHS acute trust and onset

MRSA bacteraemia: monthly data by PIR assignment and onset status

MRSA bacteraemia: monthly data by CCG and by location of onset

E.coli bacteraemia: monthly data by CCG

E.coli bacteraemia: monthly data by onset and CCG

P.aeruginosa bacteraemia: monthly data by onset and CCG

E.coli bacteraemia: monthly data by onset and NHS trust

Klebsiella spp. bacteraemia: monthly data by onset and CCG

MSSA bacteraemia: monthly data by CCG and location of onset

E.coli bacteraemia: monthly data by NHS acute trust

C.difficile infection: monthly data by CCG and onset status

Young people profiles: 2018 update

HPV vaccine coverage annual report for 2017 to 2018

Mortality Profile: December 2018

Local tobacco control profiles for England: December 2018 update

National General Practice Profiles: 2018 annual update

Local Alcohol Profiles for England: December 2018 data update

Cancer services profiles: 2018 annual update

Cardiovascular disease profiles: December 2018 update

Musculoskeletal diseases profile: December 2018 update

Suicide prevention profile: December 2018 update

Seasonal flu vaccine uptake in GP patients: monthly data, 2018 to 2019

Clarity, openness and trust: Avoiding contract disputes

Practice managers – now with PM approval

The quest continues for perfection at scale

Evidence based approach reduces the risk of building multidisciplinary teams

Flitwick practice finds clinical pharmacists ease workload, reduce costs and improve safety

Walsall network comes together in 60,000 patient super-practice

Are GP partners the new worried well?

GP apps promise to change how we pay for primary care

December issue of PCC Insight on innovation in primary care

Legislation

http://www.opsi.gov.uk/legislation/whatsnew.htm

The Branded Health Service Medicines (Costs) (Amendment) Regulations 2018

Crown copyright 2018

Latest Health Related News Links

BBC Health News Online

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/health/default.stm

Xanax: Treatment for addiction rises sharply in children

One in three children ‘not active enough’, finds sport survey

Mental health: The NHS patients who are ‘abused and ignored’

Faster diagnosis from ‘transformational’ gene project

Girls ‘more likely to face loneliness’

Most adults living unhealthy lifestyles

First baby born after deceased womb transplant

Breast milk donors help premature babies

Stammer to sermon: A priest’s struggle with words

How do you tackle stress in the workplace?

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Newspapers

Please note that hyperlinks to some newspaper articles may be withdrawn or amended during the day or following week.  This is outside the Library’s control.

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

Women could be offered DIY smear tests at home to boost number of cervical cancer screenings

Number of hospital admissions for stress and anxiety soars in decade

Tiny UV sensor marks big breakthrough in fight against sunburn and skin cancer, scientists claim

How pets improve mental health issues, from depression to PTSD

New fathers to be offered mental health treatment on NHS

© Independent.co.uk 2018

The Guardian

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

One in five patients waits two weeks to see a GP, finds report

Medical advances could soon spare patients surgery, say experts

Sharp rise in number of young people seeking help for anxiety

Ministers and NHS England chief at loggerheads over targets

Poorer children less active than wealthier peers, survey finds

Welcome to the trip of your life: the rise of underground LSD guides

Basil seeds are having a moment – but can you enjoy eating them?

No jobs, no homes, no services: how inequality is crippling young people

‘I tried to take my own life. They told me I’d have to wait a month for help’Mental health patients ‘should be given more rights over treatment

Save millions of lives by tackling climate change, says WHO

© Guardian Newspapers Limited 2018

Other Sources

National Institute For Health and Clinical Excellence (NICE)

https://www.nice.org.uk/

NICE recommends a CAR T-cell therapy for adults with some types of non-Hodgkin lymphoma

Innovative heart procedure will extend lives of patients with faulty heart valve

Antibiotics should be restricted for COPD

Adherence to guidelines could save 63 babies a year

Copyright © 2018 NICE.  All rights reserved.

Care Quality Commission (formerly Healthcare Commission)

https://www.cqc.org.uk/

King’s Fund

https://www.kingsfund.org.uk/

The role of volunteers in the NHS: views from the front line

The King’s Fund responds to the Independent Review of the Mental Health Act

The Care Quality Commission and improvement: a system-wide issue

Volunteers in NHS hospitals: developing the infrastructure to support them is a win-win

The King’s Fund responds to ONS winter mortality statistics

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