I have been listening to the first of the Reith lectures on BBCRadio 4 this week and can thoroughly recommend it as a thought provoking and stimulating listen for anyone working in healthcare. The series is entitled 'The Future in Medicine' and the lecturer is Atul Gawande who is a practising surgeon at Brigham & Women's Hospital and Professor at both the Harvard School of Public Health and Harvard Medical School. He’s well known for his writing on medicine, and his research on medical error and performance. In the first lecture of four, 'Why do Doctors Fail?' he explores the nature of imperfection in medicine. In particular, Gawande will examine how much of failure in medicine remains due to ignorance, and how much is due to ineptitude - and what that means for where medical progress will come from in the future. It's available on iplayer here and there is also a transcript but he is a moving speaker so do listen.Things published
New NICE guideline on 'Obesity: identification, assessment and management of overweight and obesity in children, young people and adults'
Public Health England has published National Child Measurement Programme: Changes in children’s BMI between 2006/7 and 2012/13. This report is the fifth in a series of annual reports which use National Child Measurement Programme data to examine the changes in children’s body mass index (BMI) that have taken place since 2006/07. It summarises changes in prevalence of obesity and excess weight, mean BMI (adjusted for age) and changes across the BMI distribution. Analysis has also been conducted to examine changes by level of socioeconomic deprivation and by ethnic group.
NHS Employers have issued guidance on helping managers in the NHS reduce stress in the workplace and to better support those experiencing it.
Department of Health has published a major new report on new technologies, which you may have heard in the media will include the digitisation of the 'Red Book' or personal child health record. The policy paper 'Personalised health and care 2020:a framework for action is online by clicking the link
In Evidence Based Medicne an article 'Psychological therapies help reduce headache and non-headache pain in children and adolescents' has been published which is a commentary on:Eccleston C, Palermo TM, Williams AC, et al. 'Psychological therapies for the management of chronic and recurrent pain in children and adolescents'. Cochrane Database Syst Rev 2014
Things available online
As an NHS employee, you have extra months left to access Springer´s medical and health content for free. Now you can read and download content until the 31st of December.
Go to health.springer.com and access 1800+ eJournals (post 1997) and 40,000+ eBook titles (post 2005) without charge or obligation! You will need your NHS Athens login details
Things blogged
Things to come to
Jouranl Club next week on Wed 3 Dec at 17:30 where the paper being discussed is 'Antibiotics for bronchiolitis in children under two years of age'
and advanced notice of our next Infobite 20 min introductory session on Tuesday 9th Dec 'Why Social media?
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