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Sleep is the best medicine: How rest facilities and EnergyPods can improve staff wellbeing Healthcare workers’ wellbeing is critical to the NHS. Night shifts have a big impact on their physical and mental health. Recently there has been nati…

In honour of #WorldSleepDay we're looking back at this 2021 paper on the effect of sleep of NHS staff wellbeing

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Countering industry promotion of harmful products to protect public health The increasing prevalence of non-communicable diseases (NCDs), caused by the consumption and use of unhealthy products, cannot be attributed to indivi…

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Clinical Scientist in Clinical Bioinformatics – the under-implemented recommendation of the Topol Review? One of the recommendations of the Topol review was the ‘expansion of Higher Specialist Scientist Training (HSST) for clinical bioinformaticians’. Free…

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#ClinicalScientist in #ClinicalBioinformatics – the under-implemented recommendation of the Topol Review?

Michal Pruski asks: Are clinical scientists the forgotten staff group in the digital transformation of the NHS? 🤔

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Ultra-processed foods are hazardous to long-term health but there has been little action to reduce consumption. Why?

FHJ authors John O Warner Imperial College London and Alisha Khan explore the reasons for ineffective regulation and what urgently needs to change

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Long-term conditions and symptom-based disorders – A community perspective Long-term conditions (LTCs) and symptom-based disorders (SBDs), such as chronic primary pain and functional neurological disorders, challenge traditio…

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Chris Barker discusses long-term conditions and symptom-based disorders through a community lens, highlighting challenges faced and advocating person-centred approaches moving beyond biomedical paradigms

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Are we preparing our medical students to fail? The need for a proactive approach in preparing students for the predictably stressful environment of clinical education and practice ⬇️

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Ethnicity and awareness, knowledge, and trust in palliative and end-of-life care: Analysis of a nationally representative survey Ethnic inequalities in palliative and end-of-life care are well documented but poorly understood. The study aims to examine awareness, knowledge and t…

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Chung Yan Ip and team used data from a national UK survey to examine ethnic differences in knowledge, awareness and trust regarding palliative care

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Can machine learning improve triage referral in pain medicine? 🤕

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From Sandhurst to scrubs: Military leadership lessons for healthcare Leadership can be the difference between success and failure, on the battlefield or at the patient’s bedside. As a former British Army officer turned …

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From Sandhurst to scrubs: Military leadership lessons for healthcare

Lessons from a former British Army officer turned NHS doctor on how military leadership principles can strengthen clinical practice and improve cohesion within healthcare teams 🔽

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Unmet needs in street homeless people: a commentary on multiple interconnected needs in a vulnerable group

This 2023 article by Albert et al is receiving attention! Find out why 🔽

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Why is there no regulation despite evidence that ultra-processed foods are hazardous to long-term health?

This #review by Warner & Khan looks at why there has been little action to reduce consumption ⬇️

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Rafi & Rafi have coauthored a short piece on persistent physical symptoms (PPS) and ways to address the gaps in knowledge among doctors in the UK ⬇️

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Bowyer et al present a scalable clinical intelligence tool, PICTURE, that aggregates electronic health record data for on-demand analytics, aiding clinical decisions and hospital operations 🔽

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The waiting list will need to fall by approximately 1 million per year — a huge challenge.
The Midlands faces the biggest task (764k), and trauma & orthopaedics the largest specialty reduction (519k).

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Andrew Duncombe highlights new analysis showing NHS waiting lists would need to halve for 92% of patients to start elective treatment within 18 weeks.

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#FHJDebate: Is the NHS is failing to provide services for patients with symptom-based disorders?
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Andreas Goebel highlights that a recent paradigm shift in our understanding of #fibromyalgia syndrome as autoimmune will change how we diagnose, treat it and how we might understand other symptom-based disorders 👇
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The team @futurehealthj.bsky.social wishes you a happy new year!

Thinking about your next article — why not consider FHJ? Publication is free of charge.

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New editorial 📢
Theresa Barnes calls for action on symptom‑based disorders:
'For too long they’ve been in the ‘too difficult’ box. Now is the time to tackle the issue head on.'
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