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Senior public heath nurse Jan Sinclair and her fitness team at Stepping Hill Hospital in Stockport walked, jogged and ran more than 1,000 miles at Easter. It took them nine days to cover a distance equivalent to a return trip from Glasgow to Plymouth, but no one had a day off work.
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BACKGROUND: Endometrial cancer (EC) is the most common gynaecological cancer in developed nations and its incidence is rising. As a direct consequence, more women are dying from EC despite advances in care and improved survivorship. There is a lack of research activity and funding, as well as public awareness about EC. We sought to engage patients, carers and healthcare professionals to identify the most important unanswered research questions in EC. METHODOLOGY: The priority setting methodology was developed by the James Lind Alliance and involved four key stages: gathering research questions; checking these against existing evidence; interim prioritisation; and a final consensus meeting during which the top ten unanswered research questions were agreed using modified nominal group methodology. RESULTS: Our first online survey yielded 786 individual submissions from 413 respondents, of whom 211 were EC survivors or carers, and from which 202 unique unanswered research questions were generated. 253 individuals, including 108 EC survivors and carers, completed an online interim prioritisation survey. The resulting top 30 questions were ranked in a final consensus meeting. Our top ten spanned the breadth of patient experience of this disease and included developing personalised risk scoring, refining criteria for specialist referral, understanding the underlying biology of different types of EC, developing novel personalised treatment and prevention strategies, prognostic and predictive biomarkers, increasing public awareness and interventions for psychological issues. CONCLUSION: Having established the top ten unanswered research questions in EC, we hope this galvanises researchers, healthcare professionals and the public to collaborate, coordinate and invest in research to improve the lives of women affected by EC.
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Biomedical Research , Endometrial Neoplasms/therapy , Adolescent , Adult , Aged , Aged, 80 and over , Caregivers , Cooperative Behavior , Endometrial Neoplasms/mortality , Female , Health Personnel , Humans , Middle AgedABSTRACT
NHS Education for Scotland has been shortlisted for a UK technology award for its programme of digital transformation and development of digital resources. It includes a new platform which is enabling nurses and midwives to take control of their professional development using their smartphones and tablets.
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Health Information Systems/instrumentation , Social Media , Staff Development/methods , Teaching/trends , Humans , Internet , Scotland , Staff Development/standardsABSTRACT
Nursing shortages are everywhere, and Guernsey is no exception.
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Models, Nursing , Nursing Staff, Hospital/supply & distribution , Staff Development , Humans , United KingdomABSTRACT
The NHS must ensure that informatics' potential for savings and productivity must be fulfilled in a hurry. Daloni Carlisle reports on a Civica-led debate.
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Cost Savings , Efficiency, Organizational , Informatics , Group Processes , State Medicine/economics , State Medicine/organization & administration , United KingdomABSTRACT
The subtle shift from traditional histopathological techniques to their more sophisticated digital cousins brings challenges as well as benefits. Daloni Carlisle reports on one trust's experience.
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Diffusion of Innovation , Histology , Medical Informatics , England , Organizational Case Studies , State MedicineABSTRACT
Daloni Carlisle looks at how technology is helping clinicians to detect sepsis earlier, something which is key to combating this often undetected killer.
