Use of patient-centred outcome measures alongside the personal wheelchair budget process in NHS England: A mixed methods approach to exploring the staff and service user experience... by Lorna Tuersley, Naa Amua Quaye, Kalpa Pisavadia, Rhiannon Tudor Edwards, Nathan Bray

“…<h4>Background and objective</h4>Personal wheelchair budgets (PWBs) are offered to everyone in England eligible for a wheelchair provided through the National Health Service (NHS) to support their choice of equipment. …”
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Eyecare practitioner perspectives and attitudes towards myopia and myopia management in the UK by Sophie Coverdale, Lindsay Rountree, Kathryn Webber, Matthew Cufflin, Edward Mallen, Alison Alderson, Neema Ghorbani-Mojarrad

“…Many barriers were indicative of systemic problems within UK eyecare, such as commercial pressures, inadequate National Health Service funding and poor public awareness of paediatric eyecare.Conclusion Myopia management is not implemented consistently across the UK. …”
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What does good care look like to people living with congenital heart disease in the 21st century? Qualitative online, asynchronous discussion forums by Christina Pagel, Jo Wray, Sonya Crowe, Louise Coats, Fiona Kennedy, Adrian H Chester

“…Although examples of excellent care were provided it is evident that, from the perspective of patients and parents/carers, some National Health Service Standards for people with CHD were not being met.…”
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Understanding the causes of intravenous medication administration errors in hospitals: a qualitative critical incident study by Darren M Ashcroft, Richard N Keers, Jonathan Cooke, Steven D Williams

“…Objectives To investigate the underlying causes of intravenous medication administration errors (MAEs) in National Health Service (NHS) hospitals.Setting Two NHS teaching hospitals in the North West of England.Participants Twenty nurses working in a range of inpatient clinical environments were identified and recruited using purposive sampling at each study site.Primary outcome measures Semistructured interviews were conducted with nurse participants using the critical incident technique, where they were asked to discuss perceived causes of intravenous MAEs that they had been directly involved with. …”
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Creating a culture, not just a space-A qualitative investigation into reflective practice groups in inpatient mental health settings from the perspectives of facilitators and atten... by Pui Lok Joshua Yiu, Abbie McDonogh, Harpreet Gill, Jo Billings

“…Participants were from eight inpatient mental health wards across two National Health Service settings in the UK. We analysed interview transcripts using thematic analysis.…”
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Functional characteristics of English professional linguistic markers in the practice of medico-legal support by A. A. Golubykh, O. N. Isaeva

“…The authors’ observations showed that the professional linguistic markers under analysis represent emerging trends in British medical law characterized by the establishment and maintenance of the patient's right to quality medical care; popularization of private medical services by general practitioners and the National Health Service; and increasing popularity of professional liability insurance for private dentists, etc. …”
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Evaluating the Effectiveness of Primary Care Health Checks at Assessing Cardiovascular Risks among Ethnic Minorities in the UK: A Systematic Review by Aleesha Karia, Reza Zamani, Tanimola Martins, Abdal Zafar, Ava Zamani

“…In 2009, the UK's National Health Service (NHS) launched a Health Check (NHSHC) scheme to improve early diagnosis of various clinical conditions, including CVD, by screening patients for associated risk factors. …”
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Sharing information about domestic violence and abuse in healthcare: an analysis of English guidance and recommendations for good practice by Gene Feder, Sandi Dheensa

“…Domestic homicide reviews often show that health services have frequent contact with victims and perpetrators, but healthcare professionals (HCPs) do not share information related to DVA across healthcare settings and with other agencies or services.Aim We aimed to analyse and highlight the commonalities, inconsistencies, gaps and ambiguities in English guidance for HCPs around medical confidentiality, information sharing or DVA specifically.Setting The English National Health Service.Design and method We conducted a desk-based review, adopting the READ approach to document analysis. …”
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Barriers and facilitators to engagement with between-session work for low-intensity Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT)-based interventions: a qualitative exploration of practition... by Mia Bennion, Amy Blakemore, Karina Lovell, Penny Bee

“…Using interpretive description methodology, 22 Psychological Well-being Practitioners (PWPs) from UK National Health Service (NHS) Talking Therapies services were interviewed. …”
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Modelled Public Health Impact of Introducing Adjuvanted Recombinant Zoster Vaccine into the UK National Immunisation Programme by Manjit Hunjan, Desmond Curran, Alen Marijam, Yasmeeta Vekria, Nikolaos Giannelos

“…Methods PHI was evaluated from a National Health Service perspective, as cases of HZ, post-herpetic neuralgia (PHN), non-PHN complications and deaths, hospitalisations, and general practitioner (GP) visits avoided using a multicohort Markov model. …”
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Evaluation of routinely collected records for dementia outcomes in UK: a prospective cohort study by Kay-Tee Khaw, Carol Brayne, Robert Luben, Shabina Hayat, Nicholas Wareham

“…Data sources include mortality from death certification and National Health Service (NHS) hospital or secondary care records. …”
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The relative risk of fatal poisoning by methadone or buprenorphine within the wider population of England and Wales by Dave Marteau, Rebecca McDonald, Kamlesh Patel

“…Objective To examine the population-wide overdose risk emerging from the prescription of methadone and buprenorphine for opioid substitution treatment in England and Wales.Design Retrospective administrative data study.Setting National databases for England and Wales.Participants/cases Drug-related mortality data were drawn from the Office for National Statistics, and prescription data for methadone and buprenorphine were obtained from the National Health Service for the years 2007–2012. During this 6-year period, a total of 2366 methadone-related deaths and 52 buprenorphine-related deaths were registered, corresponding to 17 333 163 methadone and 2 602 374 buprenorphine prescriptions issued. …”
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Evaluating the pathological and clinical implications of errors made by an artificial intelligence colon biopsy screening tool by Simon Graham, Andrew Robinson, Shivam Bhanderi, Harriet Evans, David Snead, Naveen Sivakumar, Abhilasha Patel

“…Clinical evaluation scored the impact of each error on the patient and detailed the type of impact in terms of missed diagnosis, investigations or treatment.Results Across 5054 WSIs from 2080 UK National Health Service patients there were 220 FN errors across 164 cases (4.4% of WSI, 7.9% of cases). …”
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Coproducing healthcare service improvement for people with common mental health disorders including psychotic experiences: a study protocol of a multiperspective qualitative study by Alexandros Georgiadis, Robbie Duschinsky, Jesus Perez, Peter B Jones, Debra Russo, Clare Knight, Emma Soneson, Mary Dixon-Woods

“…Data analysis will be based on the constant comparative method.Ethics and dissemination The study has been approved by the London Harrow Research Ethics Committee (reference: 18/LO/0642), and all National Health Service Trusts have granted permissions to conduct the study. …”
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Factors that influence the feasibility and implementation of a complex intervention to improve the treatment of peripheral arterial disease in primary and secondary care: a qualita... by Athanasios Saratzis, Vanessa Lawrence, Ruth Benson, Emma Watson, Prakash Saha, Clair Le Boutillier, Bernadeta Bridgwood

“…Objectives Our aim was to examine the feasibility and implementation of a complex intervention to improve the care of patients with peripheral arterial disease (the LEGS intervention) from the perspective of patients, general practitioners and secondary care clinicians.Design A qualitative study involving semistructured individual interviews with patients and providers to gain an understanding of the feasibility of the LEGS intervention as well the barriers and facilitators to implementation in secondary and primary care.Setting Primary and secondary care settings across two National Health Service Trusts.Participants Twenty-five semistructured telephone interviews were conducted with (1) patients who had received the intervention (n=11), (2) secondary care clinicians responsible for delivering the intervention (n=8) and (3) general practitioners (n=6).Analysis Data were initially analysed using inductive descriptive thematic analysis. …”
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Patterns of outpatient proton‒pump inhibitors use among older adults in a duplicative health system: comparing public and private prescribing by Sónia Romano, António Teixeira Rodrigues, Carla Torre, Julian Perelman

“…In Portugal, the public National Health Service (NHS) provides universal coverage and reimburses medication regardless of prescription origin, i.e., public or private. …”
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Surgical trends, outcomes and disparities in minimal invasive surgery for patients with endometrial cancer in England: a retrospective cohort study by Thomas Ind, Esther L. Moss, George Morgan, Antony P. Martin, Panos Sarhanis

“…Objective To examine surgical outcomes and trends in the implementation of minimally invasive surgery (MIS) use for endometrial cancer (EC).Design Retrospective cohort study.Setting English National Health Service hospitals 2011–2017/2018.Population 35 304 patients having a hysterectomy for EC identified from Hospital Episode Statistics.Methods Univariate and multivariate analyses compared MIS to open hysterectomy (OH) by assessing the association between demographic, clinical and hospital characteristics by using logistic regression. …”
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Integrating malaria vaccine and CRISPR/Cas9 gene drive: a comprehensive strategy for accelerated malaria eradication by Israel Charles Abraham, John Ehi Aboje, Bonaventure Michael Ukoaka, Kehinde Tom-Ayegunle, Maryam Amjad, Anas Abdulkader, Chinonyelum Emmanuel Agbo, Oluwatosin Ayokunle Akinruli, Taiwo Rebecca Akisanmi, Emmanuel Oyedeji Oyetola, Gbolahan Olatunji, Emmanuel Kokori, Nicholas Aderinto

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Understanding repeated non-attendance in health services: a pilot analysis of administrative data and full study protocol for a national retrospective cohort by Alex McConnachie, Philip Wilson, Ross McQueenie, David A Ellis, Andrea E Williamson

“…The full study, using a retrospective cohort design, will link routine health service and education data to determine the relationship between GP appointment attendance, health outcomes, healthcare usage, preventive health activity and social circumstances taking a life course approach and using data from the whole journey in the National Health Service (NHS) healthcare. 172 practices will be recruited (∼900 000 patients) across Scotland. …”
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Exploring the potential cost-effectiveness and societal burden implications of screening for fracture risk in a UK general radiography setting by E. Söreskog, B. Lopez, T. Bean, P. Lewis, N. Ashley, J. Da Palma Lopes, R. Meertens, A. Ratcliffe

“…The analysis took the perspective of the National Health Service (NHS) and Personal Social Services in the UK. …”
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