New Guidance For Healthcare Professionals To Support People With Long Term Conditions, UKDepartment of Health, UK
The UK chancellor, Jeremy Hunt, has unveiled new rules for welfare benefit claimants. Under the government’sback to work plan, £2.5 billion of funding is to be allocated to employment support schemes with the aim of getting over 1 million people with long-term health conditions or disab...
The Transition Research Programme was funded by the UK National Institute for Health Research to examine the process of transition for young people with long term conditions. The Programme included a longitudinal, mixed methods study which recruited 374 young people and followed them over three years...
Heatwavescanbeadangertopeople'shealth,especiallyforvulnerablegroupssuchastheelderly,childrenandpeople(4)withcertainhealthconditions.However,anyone(5)cansufferfromtheeffectsofextremeheat,includingdehydration(nothavingenoughwater)andheatstroke(aconditioncausedbythebodyoverheating).AgroupofleadingUKscientists(6)have ...
Multiple long-term conditions—the co-existence of two or more chronic health conditions in an individual—present an increasing challenge to populations and healthcare systems worldwide. This challenge is keenly felt in hospital settings where care is o
Patients are experts in their own field: The interests of patients and healthcare professionals are intertwined The notion of being concerned with the interests of patients is not new. It is as old as medicine. What is new, or relatively new, is the question of how that concern is best ...
Particularly at risk are those with intellectual disabilities (also known as learning disabilities in the UK) owing to a combination of genetic, social and behavioural factors [9,10]. Whilst there are measures in place to reduce health inequalities in this population, such as annual health checks...
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Long-term benefits of weight-loss surgery in young people Teen Health 2 - Wed, 2024-10-30 15:19 Young people with severe obesity who underwent weight-loss surgery at age 19 or younger continued to see sustained weight loss and resolution of common obesity-related comorbidities 10 years ...
The research highlights the need for healthcare providers to tailor care for multiple long-term conditions. This need has been highlighted by the COVID-19 pandemic, as people with prior diseases such as hypertension, diabetes, orcoronary heart diseaseare more likely to get severe symptoms or die...