Month: April 2020

Virtual Training

Support for navigating mental health & wellbeing in response to COVID-19

The i-resilience report is a resilience tool available completely free to use. It includes a webinar from Professor Ivan Robertson, insight from Professor Sir Cary Cooper, a downloadable check-in tool to help you understand your pressure, and more. 

Register here.

Study

Medication beliefs and use of medication lists – is there a connection? Results from a before-and-after study in Germany

Despite increasing digitalisation the paper based medication list remains one of the most important instruments for the documentation and exchange of medical-related information. However, even elderly patients with polypharmacy who are at high risk for medical errors and adverse drug effects, frequently do not receive or use a complete and comprehensible medication list. Increasing the use of medication lists would be a great contribution to medication safety and facilitate the work of healthcare providers.

Read more on the study here.

COVID-19

13 Things on the internet to lift your spirits right now

It is unpleasant, frightening and often lonely to be living in the time of a global pandemic.  But as the Coronavirus’ continuing spread contains people across the world in isolation in our homes, good citizens of the internet have stepped up to help fill the void of physical human connection.

Here are a few things that have distracted, delighted and entertained us in the strange, new, primarily virtual reality.

CQC Report

Using machine learning in diagnostic services: a report with recommendations from CQC’s regulatory sandbox

This sandbox round focused on the use of machine learning applications for diagnostic purposes in healthcare services. The findings were used to identify and consider where the CQC needs to update their current regulatory methods, and the work required to get this right in order to regulate these services better. A regulatory sandbox is a way of testing how best to regulate new types of services by working collaboratively to find out about them.

Read the report here

Every Mind Matters

10 tips to help if you are worried about coronavirus

The coronavirus (COVID-19) outbreak means that life is changing for all of us for a while. It may cause you to feel anxious, stressed, worried, sad, bored, lonely or frustrated.

It’s important to remember it is OK to feel this way and that everyone reacts differently. Remember, this situation is temporary and, for most of us, these difficult feelings will pass.

Read more here