177 Impact of Covid Pandemic on Cholecystectomy Waiting Lists in NHS Highland: Lessons and Opportunitiesdoi:10.1093/bjs/znad241.448AIMS. The standard waiting time for elective surgery is 18 weeks. However, it continues to face pressure. We aimed to look at: METHODS. Retrospective data of patients...
The COVID-19 pandemic has seen the emergence of digital contact tracing to help to prevent the spread of the disease. A mobile phone app records proximity events between app users, and when a user tests positive for COVID-19, their recent contacts can be notified instantly. Theoretical eviden...
NHS through partner organisations such as the HPMA. The survey will aim to explore four main areas of interest: existing capacity for the management of workplace conflict; the nature and extent of conflict prior to COVID-19; impact of COVID-19 on working relationships; and strategies in ...
After one of the hardest years ever experienced in the NHS, staff are “exhausted” and in danger of “burnout” as they cope with unprecedented waiting lists. Many beds are taken up by patients requiring help with “long Covid” and persistent symptoms. Paul Stein, executive director ...
The architectural design of hospitals worldwide is centred around individual departments, which require the movement of patients between wards. However, patients do not always take the simplest route from admission to discharge, but can experience convol
As early as March 2020, scientists on the government's SAGE advisory group explained that the risk of COVID to healthy children was low. But they also predicted that kids were as susceptible as adults to infection with COVID and onward transmission of th
“Growing numbers of Covid patients, on top of near pre-pandemic levels of emergency care need and ongoing efforts to tackle the record 6m and growing patients waiting for treatment, mean NHS staff are under pressure from all sides. The government must be realistic a...
Consumer Prices Index (CPI) inflation hit 3.1% in the 12 months leading up to November 2017, a nearly six-year high that well exceeded the Bank of England’s 2% target. Inflation fell in 2018 with the decline in oil and gas prices but soared after the global COVID-19 pandemic, rising...
Modelling COVID-19 transmission in the United States through interstate and foreign travels and evaluating impact of governmental public health interventionsdoi:10.1101/2020.05.23.20110999Nita H. Shah aNisha Sheoran aEkta Jayswal aDhairya Shukla b
on the cancer cells, before being reintroduced to the patient where they recognise and attack the cancer cells [12]. The process is summarised in Fig.1. It is now available on the NHS to treat acute lymphoblastic leukaemia in children and young adults up to 25 years of age, and adult ...