Your morning abstract of digital well being information, info and occasions to find out about if you wish to be “within the know”.
It’s the primary Digital Well being Espresso Time Briefing of 2024 – Glad New 12 months!
👇 Information
❌ New analysis has found the most typical medical errors, or ‘By no means Occasions’, in NHS hospitals, with fallacious website surgical procedure on the high of the checklist, the place a surgical intervention is carried out on the fallacious affected person or the fallacious website. It has been recorded 1,584 instances over the eight-year interval. Errors which have occurred inside this class embrace the fallopian tube being eliminated as an alternative of the appendix, the fallacious toe being eliminated, and an injection into the fallacious eye. Penalties of this may be mobility dysfunction, worsened damage, and the necessity to bear additional surgical procedure.
💰 Eight neighborhood pharmacy system suppliers have been awarded grants to make the improvements wanted to ship an digital prescription service in Wales that may assist sufferers, GPs and pharmacies. Constructive Options, Apotec and Cegedim Healthcare Options are the most recent firms to have acquired help from the Neighborhood Pharmacy System Innovation Fund (CPSIF) which was arrange by the Digital Medicines Transformation Portfolio (DMTP) in partnership with Life Sciences Hub Wales (LSHW). They be part of Pharmacy X, Titan PMR (Invatech), Egton Medical (EMIS), Camascope and Clanwilliam who had been awarded grants within the first two rounds of funding functions. The grants will assist suppliers to develop their techniques to make use of an digital prescription service (EPS) and obtain prescriptions digitally as an alternative of on paper. It’ll additionally help the suppliers to introduce modern modifications to their techniques that may end in paperless dishing out and integration with the brand new NHS Wales app when it’s launched.
💊 A crew of researchers within the UK and Denmark will start recruiting sufferers for a examine pushed by a urgent query in medication: How ought to new weight problems drugs be integrated into common observe? Trials have demonstrated that the highly effective medication might help individuals shed weight in dramatic methods, however clinicians are nonetheless attempting to type out the best way to finest use them.
🥂 Decreasing or eliminating alcohol consumption reduces the danger of creating oral cavity and esophagus cancers, in line with a particular report from the Worldwide Company for Analysis on Most cancers. However extra knowledge are wanted to conclude whether or not the identical is true for a number of different most cancers sorts, together with colorectal, breast, and liver most cancers. For oral most cancers, ceasing alcohol consumption for 5 to 9 years was linked to a 34% relative danger discount, and doing so for 10-19 years was linked to a 55% relative danger discount. For esophageal most cancers, ceasing alcohol for five-15 years had a 15% relative danger discount, and for 15 years or extra, was linked to a 65% relative danger discount. Researchers discovered restricted proof that the identical is true for larynx, colorectum, and breast most cancers, and insufficient proof for pharynx and liver most cancers.
🏃♀️ The variety of visits to the NHS web site’s working programme is anticipated to quadruple within the first week of January as individuals try to attain their new 12 months’s resolutions. Figures from NHS England, which runs the NHS web site, present that visits to the Get working with Sofa to 5K web page acquired 51,900 visits within the first week of January this 12 months – a rise of 260% in comparison with the weekly common in December 2022 (14,400). This equates to a median of 1 go to each 12 seconds throughout the week as many individuals problem themselves to get match and wholesome within the new 12 months.
❓ Do you know that?
The NHS ready checklist for hospital remedy rose to a report of practically 7.8 million in September 2023. The ready checklist rose persistently between 2012 and 2019 and has risen extra shortly since early 2021. The 18-week remedy goal has not been met since 2016.
📖 What we’re studying
How AI can revolutionise healthcare shared at Huge Knowledge Occasion – Thrilling alternatives for the way synthetic intelligence (AI) can rework well being and social care in Wales had been shared at a Huge Knowledge webinar on the finish of November.
🚨 This week’s occasions
4-5 January, London – Worldwide Convention on Medical and Well being Sciences