Projects to improve the care and support available for people with long COVID are to benefit from an initial tranche of £3 million of Scottish Government funding. Following a thorough planning process undertaken by health boards to determine the key priorities, the first allocations of the long COVID Support Fund across 2022 will provide £3 [...]
A new antibody could make it easier for doctors to spot atherosclerosis, the fatty plaques in arteries that are responsible for most heart attacks and strokes, potentially helping more people to avoid these devastating conditions according to research we've funded and published in JACC: Cardiovascular Imaging. Scientists at the National Heart and Lung Institute, Imperial [...]
Recent guidelines from The National Institute for Health & Care Excellence (NICE) have pulled apart conventional approaches to the management of chronic pain and caused considerable distress for both patients and healthcare professionals. A Roundtable held in London in December 2021 looked at these radical changes and reviewed some of the alternative options emerging [...]
The latest edition of the podcast series Ingest published by the Primary Care Society for Gastroenterology (PCSG) features a very special guest from the world of gastroenterology. This month, PCSG committee member Dr Charlie Andrews talks to Nobel Prize laureate Professor Barry Marshall, the Director of the Marshall Centre founded in 2007 in his honour, [...]
Date: Tuesday 17th MayTime: 8-9.30pmObjectives of the webinar include:Debate on the rationale and population health considerations for NG28 with a focus on GLP1-RAsClinical scenarios and how to practically apply NG28 with guidance from our expert speakers (Patrick Holmes, GP partner in Darlington and Sarah Baig, Lead pharmacist Dudley & Netherton PC)Sharing of best practice and practical tools to [...]
(front l-r) Colin Graham (Chief Operating Officer at Sepsis Research FEAT); sepsis survivor Kimberley Bradley; Health Secretary Humza Yousaf; (back l-r) sepsis survivor Sarah Weatherston; Fiona Griffith (Project manager of the GenOMICC study, funded by Sepsis Research FEAT) A leading sepsis charity will work with the Scottish Government to run a national sepsis [...]
Reinforcing the rights of residents to have visits and care from loved ones. Changes to the national Health and Social Care Standards for Scotland’s adult care homes will put Anne’s Law into practical effect while legislation is being prepared. Two new Standards set out the expectation that people living in care homes should have the [...]
The charity Sepsis Research FEAT is calling for increased funding for genetic research into critical illnesses like sepsis, following ground-breaking findings by a study it funds. Sepsis Research FEAT is the only UK charity fundraising to support research into sepsis while also working to raise awareness of this condition which kills around 5 people every [...]
Patients with delirium when admitted to hospital are much more likely to die within 30 days and have a longer hospital stay, research shows. The study looked at 82,000 emergency admissions across three hospitals in the NHS Lothian Health Board in Scotland and one in Salford, Greater Manchester. The risk of death within 30 days [...]
The Royal Pharmaceutical Society is calling on the Home Office to ban the industrial chemical 2,4-Dinitrophenol (DNP), which can also cause weight loss. DNP has led to 32 deaths since 2007* in those taking it after having been supplied it online as a ‘diet drug’. DNP is unfit for human consumption and its main use [...]
