BACKGROUND: Chronic limb-threatening ischaemia (CLTI) is a condition associated with significant risks of lower limb loss and mortality, which increase with delays in management. Guidance recommends urgent referral and assessment, but delays are evident at every stage of the CLTI patient pathway. This study uses qualitative methods to explore hospi...
IntroductionTransition following discharge from mental health hospital is high risk in terms of relapse, readmission and suicide. Discharge planning supports transition and reduces risk. It is a complex activity involving interacting systemic elements. The codesigning a systemic discharge intervention for inpatient mental health settings (MINDS) st...
Accumulating evidence from retrospective studies demonstrate at least non-inferior performance when using AI algorithms with different strategies versus double-reading in mammography screening. In addition, AI algorithms for mammography screening can reduce work load by moving to single human reading. Prospective trials are essential to avoid unint...
OBJECTIVE: To determine current UK medical students' career intentions after graduation and on completing the Foundation Programme (FP), and to ascertain the motivations behind these intentions. DESIGN: Cross-sectional, mixed-methods survey of UK medical students, using a non-random sampling method. SETTING: All 44 UK medical schools recognised by ...
The National COVID-19 Chest Imaging Database (NCCID) is a centralized UK database of thoracic imaging and corresponding clinical data. It is made available by the National Health Service Artificial Intelligence (NHS AI) Lab to support the development of machine learning tools focused on Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19). A bespoke cleaning pipeli...
INTRODUCTION: Transition following discharge from mental health hospital is high risk in terms of relapse, readmission and suicide. Discharge planning supports transition and reduces risk. It is a complex activity involving interacting systemic elements. The codesigning a systemic discharge intervention for inpatient mental health settings (MINDS) ...
BACKGROUND: Epidemiological research may require linkage of information from multiple organizations. This can bring two problems: (1) the information governance desirability of linkage without sharing direct identifiers, and (2) a requirement to link databases without a common person-unique identifier. METHODS: We develop a Bayesian matching techni...
INTRODUCTION: Obsolete bleep/long-range pager equipment remains firmly embedded in the National Health Service (NHS). OBJECTIVE: To introduce a secure, chart-integrated messaging system (Epic Secure Chat) in a large NHS tertiary referral centre to replace non-emergency bleeps/long-range pagers. METHODS: The system was socialised in the months befor...
OBJECTIVES: To compare success of applicants to specialty training posts in the UK by gender, ethnicity and disability status. DESIGN: Cross-sectional observational study. SETTING: National Health Service, UK. PARTICIPANTS: All specialty training post applications to Health Education England, UK, during the 2021-2022 recruitment cycle. INTERVENTION...
Acknowledgements: There is no direct funding for this study, but the authors are grateful for the EU/EFPIA Innovative Medicines Initiative project DRAGON (101005122) (A.B., I.S., M.R., J.B., E.G.-K., L.E.S., AIX-COVNET, J.W.M., E.S., C.-B.S.), FWF Austria (A.B.), the Trinity Challenge BloodCounts! project (M.R., C.-B.S.), the EPSRC Cambridge Mathem...
