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The CompreHensive geriAtRician-lead MEdication Review (CHARMER) hospital deprescribing...
Background
The National Overprescribing Review (NOR) estimates that 10% of medicines prescribed are...
Glenholme Healthcare Group improves efficiency with Workforce.com
Glenholme Healthcare Group is a distinguished care provider with nearly 3 decades of delivering exce...
Managing chronic pain in Greenwich - Kairos Rehabilitation...
Introduction
There are few effective treatments for chronic pain. Medication often adds little and ...
Healthcare Integration in the NHS: Fall Prevention and...
The NHS aims to be at the forefront of integrating innovative healthcare solutions to enhance patien...
It's here: Workforce Payroll - workforce.com
Workforce.com is proud to officially become an all-in-one platform with our newest release: Payrol...
FREE February Activities Calendar for Care Providers! -...
February's Activities Calendar is here!
Here's a preview of this month's activities:
No One Ea...
Discover our leading dependency and staffing tool for...
Care homes can now provide better care by assessing residents' needs, determining the time and skill...
Sustainability - Lorcan Mekitarian, chair of the Cleaning...
Sustainability continues to be one of the biggest challenges facing businesses, both large and small...
The Evolution and Regulation of Cleaning Chemicals CHSA...
Buyers and end users of cleaning chemicals want environmentally sustainable, safe and effective clea...
Integrating Access Control: A holistic approach from Abloy...
Roy Buckingham, Regional Specification Development Manager at Abloy UK, discusses the latest innovat...
HR is Here - Workforce.com
HR is HERE
See a quick preview below as well as what's coming!
A few cool HR features that custo...
Product Updates from Workforce.com
Below are some of our top product releases as of late. We look forward to a successful 2024 with you...
Urgent need for change: Parkinson's UK report exposes...
Damning insights from Parkinson’s UK’s recent report, ‘Every minute counts’, reveal the true extent ...
Connecting the System to Transform Urgent Care Pathways...
Patient expectations are changing. 57% of patients feel that the general standard of care provided b...
Audiology & earwax management - the fifth primary...
Last year I wrote about the ‘perfect storm’ that had percolated concerning adult hearing services ac...
Wavemill Healthcare x Workforce.com Success Story
We're thrilled to share the incredible success story of Wavemill Healthcare going paper-free!Promine...
Inguinal Hernia: The anatomy of a problem -...
With around 100,000 inguinal hernia repairs performed in the UK every year (pre Covid 19) it is one ...
How to supercharge talking therapy outcomes: Understanding the...
Introduction
The COVID-19 pandemic has led to a sharp rise in the need to rethink access to talking...
Nourish partners with workforce management solution - Workforce...
Nourish Care has announced its partnership with workforce management solution, Workforce.com.
The e...
How to Increase Manager Engagement & Retention -...
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Operation managers and HR in hourly-waged industries are constantly told to engage thei...
Breaking down silos, the key to modernising integrated...
The delivery of care in England has seen its biggest shake-up in recent history following implementa...
Sugar Reduction: Preventing Ill Health and Protecting the...
Excess sugar intake is linked to various health issues. There is a causal relationship between sugar...
The efficacy of the probiotic Symprove as assessed...
Bacteria emerged from hyperthermophiles about 3.5 billion years ago. They not only adapted to their ...
How can Primary Care Networks utilise their estates...
The health and social care sectors are seeing unprecedented challenges, which is putting pressure on...
Refuge has been empowering and supporting women to...
The economic conditions for survivors to leave their perpetrators are already wholly unfavourable, w...
The natural history of COVID-19 means that its...
About 150 years ago we began to leave the period in human history dominated by frequent and repeated...
Technology-enabled Virtual Wards have arrived, are you ready?...
The NHS must establish 24,000 Virtual Ward beds by December 2023 to support a targeted increase of 3...
Integrated care systems must now take the lead...
With 1.8 million people waiting for mental health treatment and no additional investment from the co...
Emerging from the Pandemic, a personal perspective -...
Has the existential challenge of COVID-19 about which I wrote in my last article been met and have w...
Applying behavioural science to shape quality improvement -...
An ever-growing body of research evidence means that our clinical practice is required to constantly...
Ground attack alone will not defeat drug-resistant bacteria...
In the battle against COVID, the biggest threat is transmission from inhaling airborne droplets, not...
It’s time to clear the air on the...
The gargantuan scale of the patient backlog has now been exacerbated by Omicron. While staff absence...
Hand-held devices (CardioChek®, Mission®) to smart phones (elemark™,...
Self-monitoring or testing of blood cholesterol (SMBC) using hand-held devices or smartphones will b...
Physiotherapy in a Chronic Pain Service - Mr...
Assessments and treatments for Musculoskeletal pain conditions have traditionally strived to identif...
Evolution of Multidisciplinary Services for Chronic Pain -...
The doctor's role
Multi-disciplinary pain clinics are nothing new. The founding-father of pain mana...
Off the Cuff politics - Steven Cutts BSc...
Young as I like to think I am, I can still remember the days when hospitals had a subliminal militar...
Specialist Pain clinics at the Chelsea & Westminster...
I have written and provided specialist pain management services at the Chelsea & Westminster Hos...
Harnessing behavioural science to implement the National Overprescribing...
The National Overprescribing Review estimates that 10% of medicines prescribed in primary care are u...
A spotlight on Pulse Oximetry - Not all...
The first commercially available pulse oximeter, a life-saving device that clipped on a finger and s...
The Existential challenge of Covid-19 and Climate change...
The two great challenges threatening humanity’s very existence are Covid-19 and Climate Change. Are ...
The Perfect Storm - Melanie Jackson RGN RHAD,...
The Perfect Storm
For as long as I can remember colleagues within the wider ENT community and in pa...
Focus on Acne - Anthony Chu, FRCP. Professor...
Acne is the commonest dermatosis to affect man but is generally poorly treated. It has a major genet...
Vacuum erection devices and patient education for improved...
iMEDicare Ltd have been distributing market leading medical devices within the fields of continence ...
Refuge - for woman and children. Against domestic...
For thousands of women and children across the UK, home is the most dangerous place to be during loc...
The Road Ahead: Communicating post Coronavirus - how...
VoIP can help a doctor’s office or medical practice stay connected to patients through advanced call...
CCA calls for urgent change to the flu...
It is crucial that the government tells the public how to get the flu vaccination this winter. Patie...
Obesity: Treat and Prevent - An evidence based...
Obesity is a major risk factor for mortality from Covid-19.
These ten recommendations will support ...
Portable hand-held self-monitoring blood cholesterol devices for the...
Point of Care Testing (POCT) in the monitoring of hypertensive and diabetic patients for blood press...
Why Treating Erectile Dysfunction and the use of...
Intimacy is one of the great joys and pleasures of life – alongside food, travel, arts and culture, ...
Far-reaching benefits of digital consent tools revealed -...
Digital delivery of information can empower patients to make informed choices about their care, re...
The NHS and IT after Covid-19 - Steven...
After World War One, the role of women in British society changed forever. There are people out ther...
100% of victims experience coercive control - #NOMORE...
What we need to understand about coercive control
Coercive Control is the bedrock of domestic abuse...
Community Pharmacy: Under-utilised potential within primary care and...
Background
With 11,500 community pharmacies in the UK located at the heart of communities, it is es...
The importance of Asking: Could it be Sepsis?...
Sepsis is the body’s overreaction to an infection where, instead of fighting it, the immune system a...
Male sexual health - Krishna Sethia DM, FRCS...
Although not usually the main topic of conversation around the dinner table or in a pub, problems wi...
Focus on Atopic Eczema - Anthony Chu, FRCP....
Atopic eczema is one of the commonest of the inflammatory skin diseases and its incidence is increas...
Indoor air pollution and relevance for the NHS...
Context
In developed countries such as the UK, it has been estimated that we spend around 85-90% of...
Health impacts of air pollution in the UK...
Despite huge improvements since the intense pollution smogs of the 1950s, the impacts of air polluti...
Why the Long Term Plan offers an opportunity...
In recent years leaders in the health and voluntary sectors have welcomed many mental health promise...
The seven advantages of delivering follow-up consultations over...
The ambition of the NHS Long Term Plan, to reduce face-to-face appointments by a third, is a massive...
Have we forgotten the importance of emollient therapy,...
Emollients have been part of human life for centuries; records suggest that the ancient Greeks used ...
GAG layer therapy clinic - a urology nurse...
Interstitial cystitis or bladder pain syndrome (IC/BPS) is a chronic condition characterised by chro...
Whatever the day throws at you: there’s a...
With it’s ten-strong lozenge line-up, FISHERMAN’S FRIEND is here to help people, whatever the weathe...
Benefits of softening water for eczema sufferers -...
With a true heritage in the water treatment industry and more than 40 years of experience, Kinetico ...
Eating healthily: think it's hard to put into...
This means eating a wide variety of foods in the right proportions to ensure that you get all the nu...
An Update on Trauma and Orthopaedics - Mr...
We all like to get value for our money.
Over the last 15 years, Trauma and Orthopaedics has led the...
Dermatology in the NHS: last 70 years -...
Dermatology as a speciality has made tremendous strides over the past 70 years of the NHS. Once skin...
The Development of Psychiatric Care - Professor Wendy...
“The added disability from which our health system suffers is the isolation of mental health from th...
SANE - a leading UK mental health charity...
SANE was founded in 1986 by its Chief Executive, Marjorie Wallace CBE, following her pioneering arti...
C-Reactive Protein (CRP) and Pro-calcitonin (PCT) Point of...
In the United Kingdom, about 79% of the prescribing of antibiotics occurs in community and respirato...
Development of novel stem cell therapies for chronic...
The regenerative capacity of stem cells is widely accepted, however in reality not many stem cell th...
Control of pain in general practice - Dr...
Pain is the commonest symptom described in outpatient clinics(1). A systematic review and meta-analy...
