NHS Acute Capacity Challenge: Our analysis

Operationalizing the New Global Definition of ARDS: A Retrospective Cohort Study From South Africa Read the full research in the December issue of CHEST® Critical Care: https://hubs.la/Q02_CZdW0 #MedEd #JournalCHEST

A critical element of translating new evidence into use by humanitarians is 'walking the last mile': integrating new research findings into tools, guidance and capacity-building materials that are suitable for practitioners and others working on the humanitarian front-lines (who do not have time to read journal articles and consider how to apply findings to operational response!). This online course (free, open and available in English, French, and shortly Arabic) is a great example in practice- produced by our incredible grantees at Humanity Inclusion, MSF and Karolinska. The team worked tirelessly on both research and operational engagement to make sure that the tools, guidance and learning materials meet practitioner needs. R2HC is proud to have supported this work which can help humanitarians support patients with traumatic injury to recover. FOR CLARITY: the link takes you to the DR homepage, but search for the course Activity Independence Measure – Trauma (AIM-T). Annoyingly you can only see the course details once you have logged in. #humanitarianhealth #traumacare #rehabilitation #emergencyhealth

Texts & Triumphs: Toronto Public Health's Response to the MPOX Outbreak' by Toronto Public Health triumphs the Award of Excellence for Government Communication Programs. [Alt text: On a white background, the text says, “Award of Excellence, Communication Management, Government Communication Programs”. Toronto Public Health’s logo with the text “Texts & Triumphs: Toronto Public Health's Response to the MPOX Outbreak”. On top are the logos of Ovation Awards and IABC Toronto.] #IABCTO #OVATION24

Happening today! .... a workshop to examine strategies, policies, and innovative actions to improve the resilience of healthcare and public health (HPH) critical infrastructure to impacts from disasters and other emergencies.

Briefing report we at NHS Grampian's Health Intelligence wrote with The Health Foundation. How can we prevent and shorten hospital stays? https://lnkd.in/eqTW3W97 Key take-aways from the piece: - Intermediate care is a keystone to NHS's plan to reduce pressure on acute services. - Data on intermediate care are limited and fragmented, due to the diverse range of commissioners, providers and services involved. - Intermediate care patients are older patients, with complex medical needs, and high rates of readmission to hospital. - Coordinating their care outside of the acute setting requires data sharing between NHS and local authorities that is not done currently. - Better coordinated intermediate care will relieve pressure on acute services by both increasing patient flow out of hospital and reducing admissions preventatively. - In NHSG we found a shift in intermediate care in the past five years: from GP-led care aimed at preventing acute admissions, towards geriatrician-led "step-down" care from hospital. What are the consequences of displaced preventative care? Next steps: We're piloting and enduring linkage between NHS and local authority data to support public health action. Stay tuned! With collaborators from University of Aberdeen's Centre for Health Data Science & the Grampian Data Safe Haven. Corri Black, Jillian Evans, Katie Wilde

💬 “Every clinician and every patient knows that the first step to tackling any health problem is a proper diagnosis. Improving the NHS can only begin with an honest appraisal of the current state of the health service. This is what I intend to deliver.” 🔎 Prova Health’s Chair and Co-founder, Professor Ara Darzi, has been asked by the new government to lead an independent investigation into the performance of the health service in England. 📊 This recently published article in The BMJ outlines Ara’s proposed approach for this work, which will place evidence generation at the heart of efforts to produce an informed analysis of the health service. 💡 This will include working with healthcare staff, patients and the public, analysing national datasets as well as a newly launched call for evidence to gather key insights from across the sector. 📑 You can read the article here: https://lnkd.in/dX74pGVd 📮 You can submit your response to the call for evidence here: https://lnkd.in/eH6a5YTH

We are pleased to share our publication in BMC Conflict and Health. The paper, titled "The Red Cross Red Crescent Health Information System (RCHIS): An Electronic Medical Records and Health Information Management System for the Red Cross Red Crescent Emergency Response Units", details the development and implementation of the RCHIS. This study presents the design and functionality of the Red Cross Red Crescent Health Information System (RCHIS), an innovative electronic medical records and health information management system tailored for international emergency response units. The RCHIS aims to enhance the efficiency and accuracy of medical data management in crisis situations, thereby improving the delivery of healthcare services. This work represents a collaborative effort between DigiHealth Institute, the Deutsches Rotes Kreuz, and the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies - IFRC. The paper was authored by Felix Holl, FAMIA, Lauren C., Thomas Raffort, Elvire Serres, Laura Archer, and Panu Saaristo. The partnership underscores our commitment to advancing health information systems to support emergency medical responses. 📖 **Access the Publication:** https://lnkd.in/e8j8Zf-6 We'd like to invite you to explore this publication and learn more about our efforts to improve global health outcomes through technological innovation. #DigiHealth #HealthInnovation #EmergencyResponse #HealthInformationSystems #RedCross #IFRC #GermanRedCross #BMCConflictAndHealth #Collaboration

🚑 Paramedic and Health Friends 💊 Can you please help my research colleague by filling in a quick survey for data collection? https://lnkd.in/gJKH9_hd... Title: Identifying areas of unmet need within Paramedicine, relevant to GWS and regional NSW, for future innovation studies. Aim: This survey is an opportunity for you to provide perspectives on unmet patient needs in your practice, related innovations or interventions, and current barriers to these innovations. As a local, expert healthcare professional, your responses will help provide a clearer understanding of how unmet patient needs can be addressed in our community.

Newest issue of Lab Matters, APHL's magazine, is here! A burst of emergency federal funding during the COVID-19 pandemic allowed public health laboratories to upgrade, improve and invest. Laboratories modernized equipment, hired personnel, created more efficient processes, and expanded public health programs such as next generation sequencing and wastewater surveillance. But supplemental funding has begun to recede. The boom and bust cycle of public health funding is well known to public health professionals. They've seen it time and time again, which spurred laboratory directors during the pandemic to think critically and sustainably about how to invest COVID-19 dollars beyond the initial pandemic response. Don't miss this feature article and more. Check out the highlights on our blog: https://buff.ly/4ck9wXs