Ethnic minority groups less likely to receive early psychosis treatments medicalxpress.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from medicalxpress.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
People experiencing a psychotic episode for the first time are less likely to receive early psychological interventions in England if they are from an ethnic minority background, finds a new study led by UCL researchers.
Author summary Why was this study done? Adverse perinatal outcomes are more common among women from deprived areas and ethnic minorities in England. There is debate about whether induction of labour (IOL) with birth at 39 weeks should be offered based on ethnicity or deprivation in low-risk pregnancies, as a means of reducing inequalities. What did the researchers do and find? We analysed a database of all maternity admissions in the English National Health Service (NHS) and measured the association between IOL at 39 weeks and adverse perinatal outcomes in low-risk pregnancies. We found evidence of a small benefit from induction overall in low-risk pregnancies, with 360 inductions associated with the avoidance of 1 adverse perinatal outcome. The benefits of induction were observed mainly in women from more socioeconomically deprived areas and in nulliparous women. What do these findings mean? An increased uptake of IOL with birth at 39 weeks, especially in women from more socioeconomically deprived areas and in nulliparous women, may help reduce inequalities in perinatal outcomes. The greater benefit from IOL with birth at 39 weeks in women from more socioeconomically deprived areas may be explained by an increased prevalence of maternal risk factors. Improved collection of routine data on the indication for induction and the presence of risk factors is required to corroborate the role that IOL at 39 weeks in women with a low-risk pregnancy can play in reducing inequalities in risk of adverse perinatal outcomes.
Researchers from the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine (LSHTM) will co-lead a new national centre of excellence with the Royal College of Surgeons (RCS England) to strengthen NHS cancer services by looking at treatments and patient outcomes right across England and Wales. The National Cancer Audit Collaborating Centre will deliver five new national cancer audits in breast cancer (primary and metastatic), ovarian, pancreatic, non-Hodgkin lymphoma and kidney cancer.
Researchers from the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine (LSHTM) will co-lead a new national center of excellence with the Royal College of Surgeons (RCS England) to strengthen NHS cancer services by looking at treatments and patient outcomes right across England and Wales.
gov.ie - Minister for Health publishes the National Clinical Guideline No. 29: Unexpected Intraoperative Life Threatening Haemorrhage gov.ie - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from gov.ie Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
In a nationwide cohort study, Ipek Gurol-Urganci and colleagues study obstetric intervention rates and pregnancy outcomes in England during the first year of the COVID-19 pandemic.
An “innovative and committed” mental health manager has been crowned the winner of a new rising star nursing award, created in honour of an inspirational