Supporting NHS Health Check services during the Coronavirus COVID-19 pandemic
This blog looks at some of what we’re doing at Health Diagnostics to support our colleagues and partners during this unprecedented time.
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Top training tips for using QRISK2 to communicate cardiovascular risk (part 1)
Top training tips for using QRISK2 to communicate cardiovascular risk Having trained over 4,000 individuals to deliver motivational health checks, we thought that we’d use this latest blog post to address some common questions that we receive. In our experience, amongst the most frequently misunderstood aspects of health check delivery relate to the QRISK2 calculator …
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NHS Health Checks for NHS staff across East Sussex: impacts & learnings
Setting the scene Despite challenging conditions and unprecedented demand, every day across the UK, NHS staff work tirelessly to improve peoples’ health and wellbeing. However, with so much energy channelled into providing world-class care to patients, the health of the health service itself can sometimes fall out of focus. In recognition of this situation, NHS …
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Health Diagnostics’ statement on the ransomware attack affecting the NHS
As you will no doubt be aware if you work in the health sector, the NHS was recently affected by a cyber-attack that is reported to have since spread to many other organisations, bringing about global repercussions. This statement is to offer our partners assurances that Health Diagnostics have in place the utmost security …
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Physical health checks for people with mental health difficulties: the why and the how
The big picture When, in 2014, the NHS published its strategy in the form of the Five Year Forward View, a special emphasis was placed on mapping out a future that “dissolves the classic divide… between physical and mental health”. Despite having been “set in stone almost since 1948”, a wave of recent evidence …
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E-cigarettes: the state of the current debate
Image: IB Times/Getty Electronic cigarettes – should you tolerate them? Would you promote them? Could you even prescribe them? With a host of contradictory opinions towards the devices, there is a certain air of confusion amongst health professionals as to how they should be appropriately treated. Whilst the critics claim that e-cigarettes are simply big …
Diabetes prevention: the national picture and the local pioneers
The challenge posed by diabetes The burden of diabetes presents one of the greatest public health challenges of our generation. According to Bridget Turner – Director of Policy and Care Improvement at Diabetes UK – there are currently over 3.2 million people in our country living with diabetes; 90% of this 3.2 million have Type …
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A charity’s perspective on delivering NHS Health Checks
This month we’re focusing on a charity that are providing innovative health and wellbeing services to communities in Newcastle: HealthWORKS. Having recently been nominated in the ‘Best Patient Experience’ category at the NHS Health Check Awards, we caught up with Claire Laydon-Baptist – Senior Manager at the charity – to find out more about …
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