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CLOSED – Achieving value and sustainability in prescribing medication: consultation

Closes 8 September. There is variation in prescribing of medications across NHS Scotland. This can include items that may have low or limited effectiveness, safety concerns, or provide low value for money for NHS Scotland where there are more cost-effective items available. This can also include instances of antibiotics being prescribed unnecessarily or for longer than the recommended duration, increasing…
Ben Kemp
September 4, 2024
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CLOSED – Fourth health and climate adaptation report: call for evidence, summer 2024

The UK Health Security Agency (UKHSA) and NHS England have been commissioned by Defra to jointly provide the government with a Fourth Health and Climate Adaptation Report. This report, an update to the previous third health adaptation report published in 2021, will summarise the latest available evidence relating to climate impacts to the health service and population health, and outline actions being…
Ben Kemp
August 21, 2024
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HTA: Improving diagnosis of Urinary Tract Infection in older adults

Closes 1pm on 27 November. The Health Technology Assessment (HTA) Programme is accepting Stage 1 applications to their commissioned workstream for this primary research topic. In order to apply you will need to carefully review the: Commissioning brief Stage 1 application supporting information Stage 1 guidance notes Applications received by the advertised closing date will be considered at a first-stage funding committee…
Ben Kemp
August 7, 2024
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Consultation: UK SMI S 06 – Infectious syndromes affecting the genitourinary tract and reproductive organs

This consultation is open from 31/07/2024 to 28/08/2024 You are invited to submit feedback on the UK Standards for Microbiology Investigations (UK SMI) S 06: Infectious syndromes affecting the genitourinary tract and reproductive organs document. Please note the title of this document has changed from ‘sexually transmitted infections’ and the scope has been extended to cover infectious syndromes of the…
Ben Kemp
August 6, 2024
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Policy Proposals to inform the development of a new Public Health Bill for Northern Ireland

This is the second consultation on Public Health legislation and seeks your views on specific policy proposals that will underpin the provisions to be included in a new Public Health Bill. The overarching principle of the draft Bill is to protect the population against various forms of infection and contamination including biological, chemical and radiological in addition to infectious diseases,…
Ben Kemp
July 10, 2024
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*CLOSED* Consultation – Urinary tract infection: diagnostic tools for primary care

UKHSA and NHSE have published these quick reference tools for primary care providers describe when to consider a urinary tract infection (UTI) in: women aged under 65 years adults aged over 65 years adults with a urinary catheter who have a suspected catheter-associated UTI (CAUTI) It explains the flowcharts and supplies further information about diagnosis in different groups and about urine sampling.…
Ben Kemp
May 14, 2024
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