Things about the outside...The next birthday...
Celebrating the 70th birthday of the NHS has prompted the Healthcare Financial Management Association (HFMA) to do some crystal ball gazing and look at what the NHS might be like at 100. Their conclusions include:"The challenges facing the NHS over the next 30 years are significant. Some of these we can see developing now, others are beyond our comprehension as the technology does not yet exist."
"However, the people that we are training now, and in the coming decades, need to be prepared to face the challenges and continue to meet the guiding principles of the NHS, that it is free at the point of delivery and based on need, not ability to pay. Developing technologies that are changing working practices require a flexible workforce that can adapt and learn throughout their working lives. And increasing personalisation across both care and medicine means that the challenge of efficiency through standardisation will be replaced by a more bespoke approach that needs to remain equitable for the whole population. These future developments are set against a backdrop of a growing, and ageing, population with increasing needs for care while funding for that care is decreasing. The challenge for the NHS and the wider health and care economy is to have a sustainable and effective service that meets the population’s needs in 2048."
Things about obesity & depression...
Childhood mental illness is poorly recognised by healthcare providers and parents, despite half of all lifetime cases of diagnosable mental illness beginning by the age of 14 years.Globally, depression is the leading cause of disease burden, as measured by disability-adjusted life years, in children aged 10–19 years.Untreated, it is associated with poor school performance and social functioning, substance misuse, recurring depression in adulthood and increased suicide risk, which is the second leading cause of preventable death among young people.The resulting cost to the National Health Service of treating depression is estimated at over £2 billion, and the wider social and economic impact of depression is likely to be considerable.This is the background to a systematic review and random-effect meta-analysis of observational studies to see if obesity is associated with depression in children.Things about truth...
The Independent Inquiry into Child Sexual Abuse (IICSA) has published Victims and Survivors Speak Out - accounts of child sexual abuse shared with the Truth Project, set up for victims and survivors of child sexual abuse to share their experiences in a supportive and confidential setting.Things about smoking and hospitals...
A major new report has been released by the Royal College of Physicians calls for a radical change in the way the NHS treats smoking, by providing opt-out cessation services as a routine component of all hospital care. The report found that by giving smokers the help they need to quit smoking while in hospital it will save lives, improve quality of life as well as increasing life expectancy for all smokers, and help to reduce the current £1 billion per year cost to the NHS of smoking by patients and staff. The report ‘Hiding in plain sight: Treating tobacco dependency in the NHS’ from the RCP’s Tobacco Advisory Group says that: "Treating tobacco dependency is not just about preventing disease: in many cases it represents effective disease treatment. Clinicians working in all areas of medicine can improve their patients’ lives by helping them to quit."Things to make...
A really easy and yummy cake that kids can make almost by themselves 'Raspberry Yoghurt Cake'
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