NHS Contaminated Blood Scandal UK

UK  - World

Why we need always to acknowledge 

the political in health and health in politics

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"In an interim report, the inquiry chair, Sir Brian Langstaff, said 'wrongs were done at individual, collective and systemic levels'."	(UP) contaminated       blood                              blood            donors     'dying for  COVER
	UP   scandal            paid          justice'     (screening?)

My source: Various - over several decades.

Photograph: Daily Express

https://www.express.co.uk/news/politics/1795449/rishi-sunak-infected-blood-inquiry-heckled-booed

Open Course: Public education - antibiotic resistance

Following a thread on HIFA on Antibiotic Drug Resistance here is an additional item:

Hello, I’d like to explore the opportunities for HIFA to help promote a new online open, short-course that we have produced specifically for the public, ‘An introduction to antibiotics and drug resistant infections’. We have recently launched this free resource, and it has currently now being used in 70 countries, with a high course-completion rate, and more than 93% rating it highly. Consequently we are keen to provide as many opportunities to help people become aware of this online course, for which they can get their free certificate of completion too.

I’d appreciate any advice and direction to promote, and whether it can be promoted through HIFA too.

https://bit.ly/antibiotics-and-you

https://catalogue.manchester.ac.uk/browse/i3hs/open-courses/courses/antibiotics-and-you-an-introduction-to-antibiotic-resistant-infections

https://www.instagram.com/antibioticsandyou

Regards
Roger

Dr Roger Harrison (PhD)
Senior Lecturer in Public Health
Division Lead for Social Responsibility
Chair ‘Action on Antibiotic Drug Resistance: One student, one campus, one world’.

Division of Population Health, Health Services Research and Primary Care | School of Health Sciences | Faculty of Biology, Medicine and Health |The University of Manchester | C4.6 Ellen Wilkinson Building | Oxford Road | Manchester M13 9PT.

Skype rogerharrisonuk

REPORT: Creative methods to envision nursing practices addressing AMR - c/o RIPEN

Between the summer of 2018 and October 2019 a group of nurses from various disciplines and roles took part in a series of research workshops in Glasgow and London, culminating in a policy workshop event at the RCN in London. It was a pleasure and a challenge to be able to contribute and learn about this very urgent and global issue.


Here from the RIPEN website is a description and link to the report:

March 2020: New report:  Creative methods to envision nursing practices addressing AMR

A report on the use of arts and humanities approaches to co-design healthcare service innovation
 
The RIPEN project has asked: “How can relevant arts and humanities approaches help nurses to re-envisage their infection control practice ecologies in response to antimicrobial resistance?”. Our new report shows how we addressed this question, focusing on the creative methods used and lessons learned. We hope this will be useful for nurses and other healthcare professionals, designers and artists, educators, researchers, policy activists, and anyone else with an interest in the arts and health.

Please feel free to download, share and feedback any comments.

A video is also available on the website.

Antimicrobial Resistance - an AMR TOOLBOX

Dear All,

AMR (antimicrobial resistance) is an increasing threat to global public health worldwide that requires cross-sectional and cross-disciplinary action. It is present in every country and is spurred by several human made factors including over- and/or inadequate use of antibiotics, poor hygiene and infection prevention control, excessive usage of antibiotics outside the health care sector e.g. in life stock production. And there are reasonable assumptions that the current COVID-19 pandemic might fuel AMR in the hospital.

The AMR TOOLBOX (www.amrbox.org) is a comprehensive knowledge repository designed to provide its users with practical, up-to-date information on antimicrobial resistance. It collates documents, guidelines, posters, training tools as well as information sources for various disciplines and backgrounds including among others health care sector, veterinary and agriculture sector, but also the general public. Thereby, it contributes to the fight against AMR by providing high quality information for all stakeholders involved.

The AMR TOOLBOX is part of MEDBOX http://www.medbox.org and was jointly created by Apotheker Helfen e.V. and the MEDBOX team.

We hope you find this new toolbox useful! If you have any feedback regarding the content, please feel free to contact us under info AT medbox.org.

Best regards,

the MEDBOX team & Andreas Wiegand Apotheker helfen e.V.


Sieglinde Mauder
Project Manager MEDBOX
Karin Geffert
Project Assistant MEDBOX
www.medbox.org


HIFA profile: Sieglinde Mauder is Librarian at the Medical Mission Institute, Würzburg, Germany. She collects and distributes resources on HIV/AIDS, tropical diseases, humanitarian aid, health service management, e-learning for partners in developing countries.

sieglinde.mauder AT medmissio.de


My source: HIFA

Coronavirus: Under a conceptual Macroscope

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Cognitive access info clarity in communications Motivation Anxiety Isolation Impact upon mental health Psychological Trauma Staff Wellbeing during COVID19 Information Mis-Information Stay HOME [unless: homeLESS?]* Self-isolation Self-exile  Long COVID (My education?) Long COVID (My mental health?) My health literacy: touching my own face 'distance' hand washing  +++ watch the road as a pedestrian too SELF-CARE

Coronavirus transmission Epidemiological Modelling Statistics Triage Duration of Self-Isolation ICU beds Ventilators - INNOVATION Industrial production Excel & NEC [UK] extra beds Recovery - Rehabilitation Physical access info Logistics (transmission) Testing kits Anti-body test PPE Evidence: Face coverings Personal Protection Equipment Vaccine Research Development PHYSICAL DISTANCING 2 metres Long COVID (My physical health?)

SOCIAL DISTANCING DISTANT SOCIALISING^ Staying connected family, friends, community - using social media to reduce - Social Isolation Social Media - Public Protection Role? Community Response Social Care - 'Enforced' PJParalysis? Volunteers Protect Our NHS 'Social' rehearsal? Future preparedness? Public understanding of Science

WHO: Pandemic REPORTING National :: International Consistency - Standards Lockdown Reversing Lockdown: Government Communications: (Mis-)use of media National reporting Emphasis upon economic impact? Response of Businesses Transparency of contracts, 'deals' Definition of 'Key workers' NHS England Law - Policing Policy (distancing#)

*General Population Health Status, Health systems, Healthcare systems, Politics of Health, Socio-Economics - austerity, Inequality, Inequity, Preparedness .. the Collective ...

^#Political lack of coherence in policy: Poor integration.

^Thank you @SelfCareWeekEU

21 Aug update: See also -

Sheridan Rains, L., Johnson, S., Barnett, P. et al. Early impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic on mental health care and on people with mental health conditions: framework synthesis of international experiences and responses. Soc Psychiatry Psychiatr Epidemiol (2020). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00127-020-01924-7

Image source:
By CDC/ Alissa Eckert, MS; Dan Higgins, MAM - This media comes from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's Public Health Image Library (PHIL), with identification number #23312.Note: Not all PHIL images are public domain; be sure to check copyright status and credit authors and content providers., Public Domain,
https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=86444014

To revisit post pandemic? 

There is scope to improve the placement of concepts as per Hodges' model.

Glove Awareness Week: Under the SSKIN ii

Glove Awareness Week

29 April - 3 May 2019

WHO 5th May - Hand Hygiene Awareness Day

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"What should I do?"	Glove Awareness: RCN
What can we do?	What must I/we do?

On the 15th April in London I attended the 3rd RIPEN workshop (Re-envisioning Infection Practice Ecologies in Nursing) I learned a lot from listening to colleagues far closer day-to-day - night-to-night to the sharp end of infection control and protective measures. Of particular interest was discussion on hand-washing and the circumstances, frequency and numbers of dressing packs that are used and the constant search for evidence-based practice.

Actually without taking anything from those people at the infection coal-face, can I take back that reference to "far closer"?

Take it back, because this really matters to us ALL.

See also:
Under the SSKIN 

The Economist: a Nurse, an Obituary - Lini RIP

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Lini Many Keralans work in the Gulf. More lucrative than staying at home. Dream of Gulf as a magical place. Proud pictures taken outside the house. Study Motivation Ambition Love

Lini - died of the Nipah Virus (fatal in 70% of cases) May 21st 2018, aged 28 Night shift Patient admitted: Mohamed Sadiq from Changaroth Panchayat Fever, breathing difficulty Fluids, paracetamol, change of clothes, sit with all night long The patient died after a few days  Travel by bus to work from Chempanoda, slow but beautiful journey across rivers, areca-nut and rubber trees, past wooded hills. The Western Ghats tower to the east, catch the evening sun. Bats - infected water, or the mangoes nearby. Lini was studying to improve her knowledge ...

Puthussery (family) Lini --------Sajeesh | | --------------- |                    | Rithul (5 yrs)       Sidharth (2 yrs) Sajeesh, away 5 yrs Bahrain working as an accountant Daily phone calls, returned a few times a year Able to afford 1 storey brick house Social media - rumours Origin of infection?

to be eligible for a permanent government nursing job. On contract to Perambra Taluk hospital Upgraded from a community health centre 10 yrs ago Still short of doctors and specialists Difficult cases still go to Kozhikode 50km away Lini worked as a daily-wage nurse - flexible hours. Place not quite paradise as farmers at times gathered to protest when their land was misclassified as protected forest and claims to ownership were rebuffed. Husband tried to get a family visa, but Lini wanted a nursing job in Gulf first. (She loved her work too much)

Obituary, Lini Puthussery, The Economist, June 2nd, 2018, 427, 9094, p.86.

RIPEN: Re-envisaging Infection Practice Ecologies in Nursing

Re-envisioning Infection Practice Ecologies in Nursing (RIPEN)

Reading about RIPEN in the May issue of the RCN Bulletin I am pleased to be able to contribute to the workshops.

BBC Radio 4: "The Truth About Hawaii" - AMR

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Source: BBC Radio 4
Roderick (Paul), Christine (Lizzie) and Jocelyn (Sarah) in 'The Truth About Hawaii'

Surgery, Medicine and Nursing: Art & Science

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	The Butchering Art

My source: Various - newspaper reviews, visits to Waterstones, Foyles, & Hatchards

Ebola: impact across the care domains

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grief, mental trauma, stress ChildFund International opens first Interim Care Center for children orphaned by Ebola: https://www.childfund.org/ChildFund-International-opens-first-Interim-Care-Center/

Dear Friends, Ebola is  frightening.  Most information from TV, Facebook, and from our governments is poor. We want to change this by providing to you the best possible scientific information  about Ebola from leading scientists from Nigeria, Africa, the Library of Alexandria and experts world wide. We have created a cutting edge lecture on Ebola for you to teach your students, share with your faculty and distribute to your friends. The Lecture has been translated by 20 scientific experts  into  Arabic, Chinese, English, Farsi, French, Hebrew, Japanese, Malay, Pashtu, Russian, Spanish and Urdu. It present the best possible scientific knowledge about this disease. http://www.pitt.edu/~super1/lecture/lec52511/index.htm ... We provide this to you as a “gift that is meant to be given”. Please share this with your students and faculty, and post the lecture on Facebook, tell others about  it through Twitter, etc.  The Library of Alexandria Lecture is free, developed by the global scientific community. Include links to this from Universities, Libraries, schools media, etc. Let us continue to learn and share the scientific facts about Ebola. Drs. Elegba, Kana, Bello-Manga and Adiri Faculty of Medicine Kaduna State University, Nigeria Ismail Serageldin, Ph.D., Director Library of Alexandria Ronald LaPorte, Ph.D. Director Emeritus WHO Collaborating Centre, Pittsburgh

Al Jazeera America The biggest concern of the Ebola outbreak is POLITICAL*, not medical: http://america.aljazeera.com/opinions/2014/8/ebola-virus-liberiasierraleonepolitics.html

Additional links:

Understanding the Ebola Virus and How You Can Avoid It:
https://alison.com/course/understanding-the-ebola-virus-history-treatment-and-prevention-revised

The Economist: Ebola and big data - Waiting on hold:
http://www.economist.com/news/science-and-technology/21627557-mobile-phone-records-would-help-combat-ebola-epidemic-getting-look

Ebola Resources:
http://ebolaresources.org/

Ebola Deeply:
http://www.eboladeeply.org/

Ebola, David Quammen, Bodley Head:
https://www.davidquammen.com/

Sources:
HIFA2015
https://sci-techuniverse.blogspot.com/2013/01/terrifying-facts-about-ebola.html
*my emphasis

RFID Tags Track Possible Outbreak Pathways in the Hospital

There is no substitute for providing evidence that confirms many common-sense assumptions about what happens in the clinical environment that is the ward - in this case paediatrics.

See the links below for details and explanation.

My source: John Matson. Graphic Science. Scientific American, November 2012, page 76.
See also the original PLoS ONE paper.