The prevalence of risk for hearing impairment in newborns with congenital syphilis in a newborn hearing screening program (NHS) by Thalita da Silva Oliveira, Monique Ramos Paschoal Dutra, Aryelly Dayane da Silva Nunes-Araujo, Aline Roberta Xavier da Silva, Gabriel Barros Lins Lelis de Oliveira, Gleyson José Pinheiro Caldeira Silva, Ricardo Alexsander de Medeiros Valentim, Sheila Andreoli Balen

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Exploring individual's public trust in the NHS Test and Trace System – A pragmatic reflexive thematic analysis by C.M. Babbage, H. Wagner, L. Dowthwaite, V. Portillo, E. Perez, J. Fischer

“…Conclusions: Participants outlined the need for different user requirements that could be built into the NHS COVID-19 app that would support increased adherence. …”
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Neonatal mortality in NHS maternity units by timing and mode of birth: a retrospective linked cohort study by Mario Cortina-Borja, Alison Macfarlane, Rachel Plachcinski, Christopher Grollman, Lucy Carty

“…Objectives To compare neonatal mortality in English hospitals by time of day and day of the week according to care pathway.Design Retrospective cohort linking birth registration, birth notification and hospital episode data.Setting National Health Service (NHS) hospitals in England.Participants 6 054 536 liveborn singleton births from 2005 to 2014 in NHS maternity units in England.Main outcome measures Neonatal mortality.Results After adjustment for confounders, there was no significant difference in the odds of neonatal mortality attributed to asphyxia, anoxia or trauma outside of working hours compared with working hours for spontaneous births or instrumental births. …”
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Use of locum doctors in NHS trusts in England: analysis of routinely collected workforce data 2019–2021 by Christos Grigoroglou, Evangelos Kontopantelis, Darren Ashcroft, Thomas Allen, Kieran Walshe, Jane Ferguson, Gemma Stringer

“…Objectives Temporary doctors, known as locum doctors, play an important role in the delivery of care in the National Health Service (NHS); however, little is known about the extent of locum use in NHS trusts. …”
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Pharmaceutical industry payments to NHS trusts in England: A four-year analysis of the Disclosure UK database by Piotr Ozieranski, Eszter Saghy, Shai Mulinari

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Liberating the NHS: an information revolution - think beyond the electronic patient record, think service orientated architecture! by Simon de Lusignan, Paul Krause

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Complex relational needs impede progress in NHS Talking Therapies (IAPT): implications for public mental health by Orestis Zavlis, Orestis Zavlis

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What Resources Do NHS Commissioning Organisations Use to Support Antimicrobial Stewardship in Primary Care in England? by Rosalie Allison, Donna M. Lecky, Elizabeth Beech, Diane Ashiru-Oredope, Céire Costelloe, Rebecca Owens, Cliodna A.M. McNulty

“…The aim of this study was to explore the adoption and use of education/training and supporting AMS resources within NHS primary care in England. Questionnaires were sent to the medicines management teams of all 209 Clinical Commissioning Groups (CCGs) in England, in 2017. …”
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Evaluation of the effect of a Nursing System Framework on Nurse Sensitive Indicators, mortality and readmission in an NHS Trust by Ann‐Marie Cannaby, Vanda Carter, Katherine Warren, Jason Gwinnett, Karla Bailey, Sultan Mahmud, Richard Gray

“…Abstract In 2018, an NHS Trust (UK) implemented an innovative Nursing System Framework (NSF). …”
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Detecting change in comparison to peers in NHS prescribing data: a novel application of cumulative sum methodology by Walker, A, Bacon, S, Croker, R, Goldacre, B

Weight Watchers on prescription: an observational study of weight change among adults referred to Weight Watchers by the NHS. by Ahern, A, Olson, A, Aston, L, Jebb, SA

“…BACKGROUND: The scale of overweight and obesity in the UK places a considerable burden on the NHS. In some areas the NHS has formed partnerships with commercial companies to offer weight management services, but there has been little evaluation of these schemes.This study is an independent audit of the Weight Watchers NHS Referral scheme and evaluates the weight change of obese and overweight adults referred to Weight Watchers (WW) by the NHS. …”

Six months on: NHS England needs to focus on dissemination, implementation and audit of its low-priority initiative by Walker, A, Bacon, S, Curtis, H, Croker, R, Mackenna, B, Goldacre, B

Why managing sciatica is difficult: patients' experiences of an NHS sciatica pathway. A qualitative interpretative study by Ryan, C, Pope, C, Roberts, L

“…The purpose of this study was, therefore, to explore how people experience being managed for sciatica within an National Health Service (NHS) pathway. Design Qualitative interpretative study. …”

Evaluating Long-term Outcomes of NHS Stop Smoking Services (ELONS): a prospective cohort study by Dobbie, F, Hiscock, R, Leonardi-Bee, J, Murray, S, Shahab, L, Aveyard, P, Coleman, T, McEwen, A, McRobbie, H, Purves, R, Bauld, L

“…NHS Stop Smoking Services (SSSs) provide free at the point of use treatment for smokers who would like to stop. …”

The English National Lynch Syndrome transformation project: an NHS Genomic Medicine Service Alliance (GMSA) programme by Monahan, KJ, Ryan, N, Monje-Garcia, L, Armstrong, R, Church, DN, Cook, J, Elghobashy, A, Lalloo, F, Lane, S, McDermott, FD, Miles, T, Hardy, SA, Tyson, A, Wang, VYW, Kim, A, Gelinas, S, Faravelli, F, Elmslie, F, Shaw, AC

Commissioning healthcare for people with long term conditions: the persistence of relational contracting in England’s NHS quasi-market by Porter, A, Mays, N, Shaw, S, Rosen, R, Smith, J

“…<strong>Background:</strong> Since 1991, there has been a series of reforms of the English National Health Service (NHS) entailing an increasing separation between the commissioners of services and a widening range of public and independent sector providers able to compete for contracts to provide services to NHS patients. …”

Advantages and limitations of virtual online consultations in a NHS acute trust: the VOCAL mixed-methods study by Shaw, S, Wherton, J, Vijayaraghavan, S, Morris, J, Bhattacharaya, S, Hanson, P, Campbell-Richards, D, Ramataur, S, Collard, A, Hodkinson, I, Greenhalgh, T

“…However, the reality of establishing such services in a busy and financially stretched NHS acute trust proved to be far more complex and expensive than anticipated. …”

Assessment of cardiovascular risk factors prior to NHS Health Checks in an urban setting: cross-sectional study. by Artac, M, Dalton, A, Majeed, A, Huckvale, K, Car, J, Graley, C, Millett, C

“… OBJECTIVES: To assess the completeness of cardiovascular disease (CVD) risk factor recording and levels of risk factors in patients eligible for the NHS Health Check. DESIGN: Cross-sectional study. …”

An open letter to Simon Stevens, NHS chief executive, and Alistair Burns, national clinical lead for dementia by Brunet, M, Murphy, K, Britton, B, Chand, K, Marciano, S, Greenhalgh, T, Buckman, L, Phillips, G, Lehman, R, Ballard, T, Green, A, Gordon, P, Wilson, S, Nicholl, D, Pollard, M, Treadwell, J, Poole, S, Reeve, J, Roseveare, C, Wookey, S, Malhotra, A, Wilcock, J, Ward, A, Evans, C, Larcombe, J

Could the rise in mortality rates since 2015 be explained by changes in the number of delayed discharges of NHS patients by Green, M, Dorling, D, Minton, J, Pickett, K

“…Our study provides evidence that a lower quality of performance of the NHS and adult social care as a result of austerity may be having an adverse impact on population health. …”