Healthcare In The Rohingya Refugee Camps: A DICE And PGF Project Update
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The end of April brought us to the near-halfway point of the completion of our PGF Cohort E (Postgraduate Fellowship Programme in Refugee & Migrant Health) Programme, and our DICE Cohort B (Doctors Worldwide Improving Care in Health Emergencies) Programme, with a total of 98 participants enrolled across both these projects for 2021. Due to the surge in COVID-19 cases, lockdown restrictions have meant all teaching has transitioned online. Despite these challenges, PGF shadowing, and DICE site visits continue, led for a brief time by Dr Indranil Das, an Emergency Medicine specialist from India who co-facilitated our Triage and Acute Care Module for the PGF project.
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Judith Ellis outside NHS Nightingale Hospital North West Source: Joel Goodman
Nurse leader Professor Judith Ellis has published her memoirs after 40 years working as a nurse and in the health and education sectors.
“I wanted to fire people up to say ‘nursing is powerful’”
Judith Ellise
Professor Ellis qualified as a registered general nurse in 1981 in London, before working as a ward sister in Nottingham.
She went on to become director of nursing and workforce at Great Ormond Street Hospital, interim chair of the UK Nursing and Midwifery Council and chief executive of the Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health.
Hundreds of fat children should be offered NHS weight-loss surgery to reverse their diabetes, according to a leading medic.
Growing numbers of youngsters in England some as young as six suffer type 2 diabetes. The condition occurs when the body loses its ability to process sugar and is often sparked by obesity.
It most commonly affects over-40s, who may have gained weight over decades, but the soaring obesity rate in under-18s has seen its level among young adults more than double in five years.
Now a surgeon has warned operations like up to £8,000 gastric bypasses and bands could be the only way to prevent diabetic children facing long-term damage.
Nice, the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence, has recommended more research to produce guidance on how children and young people are affected and how they can be treated. However, there is no case definition of long Covid in children and young people in the way there is in adults.
In the absence of that definition and guidance, parents say they are being dismissed or regarded with suspicion by medical professionals over their childâs unexplained symptoms.
One of the problems, says the Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health, is that services for rehabilitating children seriously affected by, for example, chronic fatigue symptoms are âcompletely inadequateâ in many parts of the country.