NHSmail made changes to user account management periods on 1 December 2022 following consultation.
The ‘active’ and ‘inactive’ periods for unused accounts are being reduced from 90 to 30 days. There was no change to application accounts, shared, resource mailboxes or the forensic process.
For further information on this change please visit the NHSmail support site pages.
Apply for Care ID is a simple and secure ID application enabling health and care staff, including students, to verify their identity to access national clinical information systems and data. The app is remotely accessible anytime and provides a time saving alternative to face-to-face registrations. Find out more about the service.
Unique Organisation Data Service (ODS) codes have been given to 89 ‘Elective Surgical Hubs’ across England. These hubs describe NHS trust operational units that carry out planned care surgery only and have fully ring-fenced facilities and staffing.
Activity at Elective Surgical Hubs needs to be identified separately from the rest of the trust’s activity at site-level. This is to measure impact and performance. The hubs are searchable by name in the ODS Portal and via the ODS API.
You can contact Julie.renfrew@nhs.net for more information.
As part of the Tech Innovation Framework, GP practices are invited to become early adopters of cloud-based clinical IT systems to help ensure they meet the needs of primary care settings.
The Early Adopters programme is asking for Integrated Care Boards to share this opportunity with any practices who may wish to take part. Funding and support are available. Practices can express interest directly by contacting gpit.techinnovation@nhs.net.
Following recent cyber security attacks, the threat to health and social care remains high. It is essential that you and your suppliers comply with the latest mitigation guidance and supply chain assessment guidance from the National Cyber Security Centre.
Additionally, you should ensure your local teams are following guidance on strengthening cyber security resilience in response to the situation in Ukraine, and know what actions to take during a heightened cybersecurity threat.
If you require support with cloud migration, you can talk to a cloud specialist about a range of topics including cloud architecture and application, governance, security and project management, and scoping. Book your 30-minute session.
Heartburn is top of the list for advice on health conditions on the NHS website at Christmas, according to new figures.
Analysis by NHS Digital covering the previous two years found that, apart from information about Covid, the heartburn and acid reflux page was the most commonly viewed health condition during the festive period.
There are an estimated 13,200 visits to the website page during Christmas Day and Boxing Day – equivalent to one view every 13 seconds.
Other popular pages on the NHS website over the festive season include health advice on diarrhoea and vomiting which receives an average of 11,600 visits, and stomach ache which gets an estimated 11,000 visits. There are also an average of 9,300 visits to the page on food poisoning across the 48 hours.
The NHS website, which is managed by NHS Digital, is the UK’s biggest health website with an estimated 27 million visits each week. The site also includes advice on how to stay well in winter which covers getting vaccinations, keeping warm and looking in on vulnerable neighbours and relatives.
Robert Cleary, NHS Digital’s content director for the NHS website, said:
“The NHS website is available every day of the year for anyone who needs it, including during the festive season.
“The site provides information and advice on a wide range of conditions, from heartburn to mental health, in easy-to-understand language.
“Our section on staying well in winter also includes useful tips on how to keep healthy during the colder months.”
The NHS website has over 4,000 pages and provides information about 990 medical conditions as well as other health services, including applying for a free UK Global Health Insurance Card for healthcare cover abroad, finding a GP, and a BMI healthy weight calculator.
The page on heartburn and acid reflux includes advice on symptoms and causes, how to ease the condition, and when you should seek medical advice.
The main symptoms are a burning sensation in the middle of your chest and an unpleasant sour taste in your mouth. Symptoms are often worse after eating, when lying down and when bending over.
The NHS website advises that raising the head end of your bed by 10 to 20cm, so your chest and head are above the level of your waist, can stop stomach acid travelling up towards your throat.
You should speak to a pharmacist for advice if you keep getting heartburn, and they may recommend medicines called antacids or alginates that can help ease your symptoms.
ENDS
Around a quarter of adults in England were obese in 2021, according to the latest Health Survey for England.1
The report also found that around half of adults (49%) drank alcohol at least once a week, and about one in eight (12%) were current cigarette smokers.
Published by NHS Digital, the Health Survey for England, 2021 reports on the nation’s health and surveyed 5,880 adults about a variety of topics including cigarette smoking, e-cigarette use and alcohol consumption.1
For most of 2021, interviews were carried out by telephone, rather than in person because of COVID-19 pandemic precautions. As a result of these changes in data collection, findings from 2021 are not directly comparable with those from previous years.
Obesity:
Figures for 2021 show that 26% of adults in England were obese2 - with obesity increasing with age from 8% of adults aged 16-24 to 32% of those aged 65-74.
Obesity prevalence2 was lowest among adults living in the least deprived areas (20%) and highest in the most deprived areas (34%).
11% of adults who were obese reported that they had received a diagnosis of diabetes from a doctor, compared with 5% of overweight2 adults and 3% of those who were neither overweight nor obese.
A higher proportion of men were either overweight or obese (69%) compared with women (59%).
Smoking:
12% of adults were current cigarette smokers. Two-thirds of adults (66%) had never regularly smoked. More men (13%) than women (10%) reported that they currently smoked.
5% of all adults were defined as current e-cigarette3 users.
16% of current smokers also currently used e-cigarettes as did 13% of ex-regular smokers, but only 1% of those who had never smoked cigarettes.
Drinking alcohol:
79% of participants reported that they had drunk alcohol in the last 12 months, and
49% reported that they drank alcohol at least once a week. A higher proportion of men than women drank alcohol.
Men were more likely than women to drink at increasing or higher risk levels4; 28% of men and 15% of women usually drank more than 14 units of alcohol a week.
The Health Survey for England is commissioned by NHS Digital and carried out by the National Centre for Social Research in conjunction with UCL, which co-authors the report.
ENDS
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New statistics on the percentage of cancers diagnosed at stages 1 and 2 in England in 2020 have been published today by NHS Digital.1
Case-mix adjusted percentage of cancers diagnosed at stages 1 and 2 in England, 2020 provides the percentage of all cancers diagnosed at stages 1 and 2 nationally and at sub-Integrated Care Board (ICB) level.
The stage of a cancer describes the size of a tumour and how far it has spread from where it originated – ranging from stage 1 where the cancer is small and hasn’t spread, to stage 4 where the cancer is larger and has spread elsewhere in the body.
The publication includes information on the proportion of all cancers diagnosed at an early stage, which is presented as unadjusted percentages and adjusted for case-mix, which means factors like age, sex, cancer site and socio-economic deprivation are taken into account.2
The data includes information on:
The most recently available results are for cancers diagnosed in 2020, with data available from 2013.4
ENDS
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Case-mix adjusted percentage of cancers diagnosed at stages 1 and 2 in England, 2020.
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