NHS Bolton Library Presents… Primary Care News, Research and Opinion: Week Ending 15th April 2012

Please find below a selection of the most relevant and interesting news stories of the past week. Including:

Primary Care

• Can mobile stroke units save lives? – Health News – NHS Choices
• Diabetes blood pressure control warning
• Number of people with dementia will reach 65.7 million by 2030, says report
• Poor patients face shorter GP opening hours
• US health reforms offer chance for primary care and public health to integrate, says report

Commissioning

• Agenda for Change could survive regional pay push
• Health and wellbeing boards: System leaders or talking shops? – The King’s Fund
• Local payment by results – Audit Commission
• Should young people be paid for getting tested? A national comparative study to evaluate patient financial incentives for chlamydia screening

Public Health

• A web-based computer-tailored smoking prevention programme for primary school children: Intervention design and study protocol
• Associations between deprivation and rates of childhood overweight and obesity in England, 2007–2010: an ecological study
• Brighton acute chief to lead Public Health England
• Dentists can help detect alcohol misuse, say surgeons
• Predictors of binge drinking in adolescents: ultimate and distal factors – a representative study

 

 

Associations between deprivation and rates of childhood overweight and obesity in England, 2007–2010: an ecological study

Associations between deprivation and rates of childhood overweight and obesity in England, 2007–2010: an ecological study — Conrad and Capewell 2 (2) — BMJ Open.

This article is available freely via Open Access. Please click on the above link to view it fully.

Abstract

 

Objectives To investigate the associations between deprivation and rates of childhood overweight and obesity in England, from 2007 to 2010.

A retrospective cohort study assessing patient characteristics and the incidence of cardiovascular disease using linked routine primary and secondary care data

A retrospective cohort study assessing patient characteristics and the incidence of cardiovascular disease using linked routine primary and secondary care data — Payne et al. 2 (2) — BMJ Open.

This article is available freely via Open Access. Please click on the above link to view it fully.

 

 

Abstract

 

Objectives Data linkage combines information from several clinical data sets. The authors examined whether coding inconsistencies for cardiovascular disease between components of linked data sets result in differences in apparent population characteristics.

Glasgow University leads biggest study into Parkinson’s disease

A Glasgow-based doctor is to lead the world’s biggest research study into the cause of Parkinson’s disease.

via BBC News – Glasgow University leads biggest study into Parkinson’s disease.

The association between body mass index and musculoskeletal foot disorders: a systematic review

The association between body mass index and musculoskeletal foot disorders: a systematic review – Butterworth – 2012 – Obesity Reviews – Wiley Online Library.

Summary

The primary aim of this systematic review was to investigate the relationship between body mass index (BMI) and foot disorders. The secondary aim was to investigate whether weight loss is effective for reducing foot pain. Five electronic databases (Ovid MEDLINE, Ovid EMBASE, Ovid AMED, CINAHL and The Cochrane Library) and reference lists from relevant papers were searched in April 2011.

Agenda for Change could survive regional pay push

via Agenda for Change could survive regional pay push | News | Health Service Journal.

This article is solely the work of the HSJ. For a full copy of the article please contact the library.

The Department of Health is pushing for the Agenda for Chance national pay framework to survive the introduction of regional pay rates in the NHS, it has emerged.