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Kaiser Permanente and Denver Health jointly announced a $10 million commitment to help Denver Health address rising costs of uncompensated care at Denver Health. The partnership raised $18.7 million to preserve and improve access to affordable health care and help ease the burden of rising unpaid care costs.
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2 years ago Read more at Kaiser Permanente

NHS Fife announced last week that it had introduced a purple tunic for advanced and emergency nurse practitioners. It will replace the current cornflower blue uniforms. In addition, it said it would prevent the role being confused with other roles.
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2 years ago Read more at Nursing Times

Traditional Zulu culture, for example, perceives same-sex relationships and sexual intercourse as taboo and unAfrican. Statements like “real men are not gay” indicate some people’s ideas about masculinity and sexuality. This abuse often triggers depression, suicide and drug abuse. In South Africa, men who have sex with men are categorised as a key population.
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2 years ago Read more at The Conversation

Chicago Department of Public Health said the new policy was necessary because of the continued increase in measles cases among young children at the Halsted Street shelter. The second dose will help protect preschool children until their immunity is fully developed and will also help stop the spread to other children who haven’t received a second dose of the shot. Most of the cases have been associated with the Pilsen migrant shelter, medical advocates say.
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2 years ago Read more at NBC Chicago

The Scottish SPCA and Police Scotland carried out a joint operation in the Kilmarnock area on Tuesday morning. A litter of puppies were seized from the unlicensed and “low-welfare” puppy trade. They are now receiving veterinary care at one of the SSPCA’s animal rescue and rehoming centres.
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2 years ago Read more at STV News

Self-assessment tool enables PCNs to evaluate themselves against 22 inclusion metrics. These include how they use codes, how inclusion health groups feature in patient satisfaction monitoring and if patients can use a GP practice as a care of address. Once completed, PCN’s receive a ‘completely unique’ guide to help tackle health inequalities. The tool was initially launched in 2021 but has now been updated with new content and resources, Pulse PCN understands.
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2 years ago Read more at Pulse

World Health Authority has questioned the UK’s employment of Physician Associates (PAs) The role was introduced into the NHS in 2003 to address workforce shortages. The role has recently faced scrutiny over mistakes PAs have made with patients.
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2 years ago Read more at PoliticsHome

The Children’s Coaching Collaborative is a collection of organisations including Sport England, Mind, Unicef and Street Games who are working together to create a nation of “child-first” coaches who place children’s rights, enjoyment and wellbeing at the centre of coaching through the Play Their Way campaign. Nationally, more children than ever need mental health care as NHS figures show nearly half a million are awaiting treatment.
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2 years ago Read more at Children & Young People Now

Dean Michael C. Lu of UC Berkeley School of Public Health converged on February 21 and 22 at the Healthcare Conference Taipei 2024. The event was inspired by the iconic J.P. Morgan Healthcare Conference that attracts health tech innovators, entrepreneurs, and investors to San Francisco each January. Over the two days, the conference brought together over 300 attendees.
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2 years ago Read more at UC Berkeley School of Public Health

Personalized Support for Women in Labor and Delivery Supervised training in hospitals provides maternal and neonatal health workers with invaluable real-life labor and delivery experience. The training approach is designed to cascade down from mentors to other health workers, who then train their colleagues. This project was the first collaboration in the Church’s Africa Central Area to address key drivers of maternal and newborn mortality.
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2 years ago Read more at Church Newsroom