Oral
feeding difficulties and dilemmas: A guide to practical
care, particularly towards the end of life
Report of RCP/BSG Working Party
Nil by mouth’ should be a last resort rather than the first option
This is the central message from a Working Party report published today
by the Royal College of Physicians in conjunction with the British Society
of Gastroenterology. Entitled ‘Oral feeding difficulties and dilemmas:
A guide to practical care, particularly towards the end of life’,
it has been prepared in response to continuing unease about the lack
of consensus, including among doctors, about when artificial nutrition
and hydration is appropriate.
Members sought for Editorial
Panel for NHS Evidence
We hope you are aware of NHS Evidence - emergency and urgent care, a
free web based collection of high quality information for all healthcare
professionals working in the fields of pre-hospital care, urgent primary
care, emergency medicine and acute medicine, as well as the early stages
(first 24 hours) of trauma care. As part of NICE’s new NHS Evidence
service, our objective is to find and include the highest quality information
relevant to your practice. Information is available on all aspects of
emergency and urgent care including both clinical and organisational
issues.
We are currently seeking members for a new editorial panel to support
the collection’s clinical lead, Professor Matthew Cooke.
Benefits to you
• Keep up to date with new evidence, guidelines, policy, etc.
• Entitled to be known as
‘member of the editorial panel of NHS Evidence – emergency
and urgent care’.
• Annual ‘activity’
certificate for personal portfolio. The College of Emergency Medicine
has approved this work as CPD activity. We are happy to approach other
professional bodies to seek CPD approval.
More information, please go to: http://go.warwick.ac.uk/emergencycare/nhsevidence/edpanel.doc
Can you help?
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Acute
and Stroke Consultants Numbers Rise
The Graham Bull
Prize in Clinical Science 2010
is now open for applications.
This award was established in 1988 in honour of the late Sir Graham Bull
who was the first Director of the Clinical Research Centre at Northwick
Park. A Trust for the Graham Bull Prize was set up to provide money for
young research workers under the age of 45 who feel that they have made
a major contribution to clinical science. The work can cover a wide range
of expertise, such as molecular and cellular biology, imaging technology,
psychiatry, or health sciences. The award is open to both clinical and
basic scientists who must apply for their own work to be considered. The
sum of £1000 will be awarded to the prize winner.
The closing date for applications is 31 March 2010. Please find attached
a publicity leaflet giving all details of this Prize. This information
is also available, along with an application form, on our website at www.rcplondon.ac.uk/trustfunds.
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INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL FOR QUALITY IN HEALTH CARE
RECENT PUBLICATION
Effectiveness of acute medical
units in hospitals:a systematic
review
Ian Scott; Louella Vaughan; Derek Bell
International Journal for Quality in Health Care 2009
21: 397-407
Here are the free-access links to the online
article:
Abstract:
http://intqhc.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/content/abstract/mzp045?
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Full Text:
http://intqhc.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/content/full/mzp045?
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PDF:
http://intqhc.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/reprint/mzp045?
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