Prevalence of cardiovascular disease risk amongst the population eligible for the NHS Health Check Programme. by Dalton, A, Soljak, M, Samarasundera, E, Millett, C, Majeed, A

“… BACKGROUND: The National Health Service (NHS) Health Check Programme aims to identify and manage patients in England aged 40-74 years with a 10-year cardiovascular disease (CVD) risk score over 20%. …”

Managing the after effects of serious patient safety incidents in the NHS: an online survey study. by Pinto, A, Faiz, O, Vincent, C

“…OBJECTIVE: To examine the current state of practice in English NHS Trusts in relation to the communication of serious patient safety incidents to patients and families and support for all parties involved. …”

Refinement of the NHS locus on chromosome Xp22.13 and analysis of five candidate genes. by Toutain, A, Dessay, B, Ronce, N, Ferrante, M, Tranchemontagne, J, Newbury-Ecob, R, Wallgren-Pettersson, C, Burn, J, Kaplan, J, Rossi, A, Russo, S, Walpole, I, Hartsfield, J, Oyen, N, Nemeth, A, Bitoun, P, Trump, D, Moraine, C, Franco, B

“…Nance-Horan syndrome (NHS) is an X-linked condition characterised by congenital cataracts, dental abnormalities, dysmorphic features, and mental retardation in some cases. …”

Determination of risk identification process employed by NHS for a PFI hospital project in the UK by Mohamed Ghazali, F. E., Kabir, Shahid

“…Long-term concession contracts associated with Private Finance Initiative (PFI) projects, such as National Health Service (NHS) hospitals, are subject to substantial risks, which may not only emerge from project activities such as design and construction, but also from global issues beyond the control of project parties, such as commercial, legal and political risks. …”
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One step closer towards a greener NHS: decommissioning of piped nitrous oxide manifolds by Chloe Hui Xin Chang, Tim Smith

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Epidemiological impacts of the NHS COVID-19 app in England and Wales throughout its first year by Michelle Kendall, Daphne Tsallis, Chris Wymant, Andrea Di Francia, Yakubu Balogun, Xavier Didelot, Luca Ferretti, Christophe Fraser

“…The NHS COVID-19 digital contact tracing app was designed to notify people of potential exposure to SARS-CoV-2. …”
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Modelling NHS England 111 demand for primary care services: a discrete event simulation by Jonathan Green, Colin A O'Keeffe, Richard Pilbery, Daniel Chalk, Madeleine Smith

“…Objectives This feasibility study aimed to model in silico the current healthcare system for patients triaged to a primary care disposition following a call to National Health Service (NHS) 111 and determine the effect of reconfiguring the healthcare system to ensure a timely primary care service contact.Design Discrete event simulation.Setting Single English NHS 111 call centre in Yorkshire.Participants Callers registered with a Bradford general practitioner who contacted the NHS 111 service in 2021 and were triaged to a primary care disposition.Primary and secondary outcome measures Face validity of conceptual model. …”
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Accessing health information during the COVID-19 pandemic: the experience of NHS maternity service users by Rushvini Ambihaipahan, Georgia Chisnall, Cecilia Vindrola-Padros, Lucy Irvine

“…Abstract Background The COVID-19 pandemic caused various disruptions to NHS maternity services in England. Changes were made to antenatal and postnatal care and the way that information was shared with maternity service users during these times. …”
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An outline framework for the efficient onward-sharing of linked Longitudinal Population Study and NHS Digital records. by Andy Boyd, Garry Coleman, Estelle Spence, Alison Park, Rebecca Hardy

“…Current data sharing agreements between LPS and NHS Digital generally do not permit the onward-sharing of linked health records beyond the LPS’s host institution or provide mechanisms to dynamically add new research hypotheses. …”
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Identifying the Lack of Energy-Conscious Behaviour in Clinical and Non-Clinical Settings: An NHS Case Study by Ahmad Taha, Tim Hopthrow, Ruiheng Wu, Neil Adams, Jessica Brown, Ahmed Zoha, Qammer H. Abbasi, Muhammad Ali Imran, Jan Krabicka

“…Thereby, this paper contributes to the existing literature, by presenting a new methodology to identify potential energy waste and negative energy usage behaviour in an NHS hospital. The paper presents an analysis of electricity consumption vs occupancy during minimal consumption periods (i.e, bank holidays and weekends) and it presents a log of equipment left switched on outside of working hours, in order to highlight the level of energy-conscious behaviour. …”
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An Online Experiment of NHS Information Framing on Mothers’ Vaccination Intention of Children against COVID-19 by Audrey L. Van Hoecke, Jet G. Sanders

“…In the UK, a trusted source to inform vaccination choices is the NHS website. Here we used a randomized controlled experiment of framing effects in NHS information content for COVID-19 and flu with 550 mothers under the age of 5. …”
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Psychological Screening, Standards and Spinal Cord Injury: Introducing Change in NHS England Commissioned Services by Jane Duff, Rebecca Ellis, Sally Kaiser, Lucy C Grant

“…This paper presents the outcome of a project involving the Spinal Cord Injury Psychology Advisory Group (SCIPAG) and NHS England Clinical Reference Group/SCI transformation groups to agree upon screening and standards and shares data from the National Spinal Injuries Centre (NSIC) and the Yorkshire and Midlands Regional SCICs. …”
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Trends and determinants of clinical staff retention in the English NHS: a double retrospective cohort study by Catia Nicodemo, Giuseppe Moscelli, Melisa Sayli, Marco Mello

“…Objectives To investigate how demographic, contractual and organisational factors are related to the retention of hospital workers in the English NHS. The study will specifically examine the trends in age-retention profiles.Design A double retrospective cross-cohort study using administrative data on senior and specialty doctors, nurses and midwives who were included in the 2009 and 2014 payrolls of all English NHS hospital Trusts. …”
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Evaluation of two Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) in genomic variant interpretation for the NHS workforce by Beth Coad, Katherine Joekes, Alicja Rudnicka, Amy Frost, Mark Robert Openshaw, Katrina Tatton-Brown, Katie Snape

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Use of Microsoft Power BI to display pregnancy related performance statistics within NHS trusts by Oliver Hugh, Jason Gardosi

“… Objective We wanted to create a dashboard that allowed midwives and doctors to monitor the performance of their NHS Trust by viewing the statistics relating to their performance in identifying babies at risk due to not growing well in the womb (small for gestational age, SGA), the single largest cause of stillbirths and subject to national guidelines and reporting requirements. …”
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Podiatrists' perceptions of diabetic foot care services in a Scottish NHS health board area by Jennifer Scott, Gordon Hendry, Debbie Turner, Stuart Baird, Ruth Barn

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Assessment of a Nurse Led Energy Behavior Change Intervention in an NHS Community Hospital Ward by Louise Sawyer, Simon Kemp, Patrick James, Michael Harper

“…This paper investigates a nurse led, energy conservation behavioral intervention, in hospital wards of an NHS (National Health Service) community hospital (Trust). …”
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Home Telemonitoring reduces hospitalization for Heart Failure in an NHS service: a Propensity-Matched Analysis by Yan Zhang, Chandrasekhar Kambhampati, John G.F. Cleland, Jennifer Caffarel, Harald Reiter, Kevin Goode, Riet Dierckx, Darryl Davis

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Potential risks to the National Health Service (NHS) of a Post-Brexit US Trade Deal by Louise Dalingwater

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The influence of demographic, health and psychosocial factors on patient uptake of the English NHS diabetes prevention programme by David Reeves, Adrine Ablitt Woodham, David French, Peter Bower, Fiona Holland, Evangelos Kontopantelis, Sarah Cotterill

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