Resources

Documents

The Local Government Group quick guide to local government describes the structure, mechanisms and funding of local government.
The Higher Education Occupational Practitioners’ Society has produced guidance for ascertaining whether students with severe eating disorders are fit to study.
The World Malaria Report 2011 summarizes information received from 106 malaria-endemic countries and a range of other sources
The Migrant Health Guide is a free online resource that aims to assist primary care practitioners who look after people who have come to live in the UK from abroad. The guide is organised on a country specific basis and outlines a range of health issues that might affect someone coming from each country, making their health care needs different to that of the UK born population. It also provides practical guidance and resources to assess and manage a wide range of health needs. The guide has been developed in consultation with users and is endorsed by both the Royal College of General Practitioners and the Royal College of Nursing.
The second report from the HPA on migrant health.Migrant Health: Infectious diseases in non-UK born populations in the UK (PDF 6.9Mb).
The Annual Report of the APPG on Malaria and Neglected Tropical Diseases (PDF 885KB)
The Medical Foundation for Aids & Sexual Health (MedFash) has released the 2011 edition of its popular booklet HIV in Primary Care:an essential guide for GPs, practice nurses and memebers of the primary healthcare team. The booklet is available free to download from the MedFASH website
SEQOHS - Safe Effective Quality Occupational Health Services accreditation scheme was launched in December 2010. It aims to ensure through regular monitoring that required standards are maintained by all accredited OH services. The accreditation standards document is available here
Health Visiting Matters: re-establishing health visiting (PDF 4.2MB) report from the UK Public Health Association, published in November 2009.
'Opening Doors' is a two year project supported by the Queen's Nursing Institute which aims to support homeless peopled and their families, particularly those affected by substance misuse. Deatils of the project and resourced available for healthcare professionals working in this area are available from the QNI's project webpage.
Medical management during effective weight loss, a publication from the National Obesity Forum which provides outline guidance on management of other medical conditions during effective weight-loss and on caring for patients after bariatric surgery. The document is available to download and read as a pdf on the National Obesity Forum's publications page.
Factsheet on counterfeit medicines from the World Health organisation. This issue is an increasing problem, especially for travellers who purchase fake antimalarial drugs via the internet or in countries abroad.
The Control of Malaria 2005-15: Progress and Priorities towards Elimination, a report from the All-Party Parliamentary Group on Malaria and Neglected Tropical Diseases is available for download from the group's website.
State of the world's vaccines and immunization (third edition), a call to action to governments and donors to sustain and increase funding for immunization from the WHO. The document is available to download on the WHO website.
Tackling obesity through the Healthy Child Programme: a framework for action report from the National Obesity Observatory.
The completely revised 2010 edition of Health Information for Overseas Travel, also known as the UK ‘Yellow Book’, contains comprehensive information and advice for travel health professionals with sections on: risk assessment and risk management in the pre-travel consultation, guidance on travellers with special health needs or who are undertaking challenging itineraries,algorithms for medically managing returned travellers.This publication is designed to complement the dynamic information found on the NaTHNaC website.

RCN resources

First Steps for Health Care Assistants’ online induction resource - This online induction resource brings together work-based case studies and scenarios covering communication skills, clinical skills, health and safety, personal development, equality, and much more to enable training providers and employers create a comprehensive induction training programme, regardless of the nature of the care setting.
NICE care – prevention of venous thromboembolism - The RCN has developed an online learning resource to help all members of the nursing team throughout the UK to update their awareness of VTE: how it develops, and how they can help prevent many of these deaths.
RCN Clinical Governance resource - This resource aims to promote a better understanding of clinical governance. In particular it explores six key themes of clinical governance. One of the themes, based on standard documents from across the four UK countries, is public health, but all of the themes interrelate and all reflect a UK four country perspective.
The Public health theme as with the other themes, highlights some key topics and signposts relevant RCN products and services and publications. It also includes a range of other resources and sources of information which support public health. These are key agencies and documents and reports which shape the current strategic and policy framework across the four UK countries. A select list of guidance and tools which help with the understanding and implementation of policy is also available.
The ‘In close-up’ section of the RCN Clinical governance resource focuses on one particular issue or viewpoint. Currently the section is focussing on Alcohol misuse.
For details of further related RCN resources see RCN products and services and RCN publications
As additional ways of keeping up to date you can sign up for a fortnightly Clinical governance e-Bulletin and also access the Royal College of Nursing’s bookmarks on clinical governance which are based on the e-Bulletin. For further details and examples see Clinical governance – updates

Useful links

NHS Lifecheck have developed a range of promotional material to enable healthcare professionals to promote the Lifecheck Tool in organisations. The promotional material is available to download here. Lifecheck, part of the NHS Choices website is a free resource aimed at providing individuals with advice to improve their lifestyle.
Information for UK citizens travelling to and from Japan - provides useful links and information for those concerned about travel and travellers to and from Japan
NHS Evidence - provides access to guidelines, strategies, policies, systematic reviews
Health profiles from the Association of Public Health Observatories, providing a snapshot of the health of all local councils in England
The HIA Gateway from the Association of Public Health Observatories, provides everything you need to know about Health Impact Assessment
HealthKnowledge is an online learning resource for those working in public health
The Association of Public Health Observatories resources page - includes skills and career frameworks and job and person specifications.
The Association of Public Health Observatories tools page - includes disease prevalence models
The UK Rehabilitation Council (UKRC) exists to provide an authoritative voice and focal point for anyone with a stake in medical and vocational rehabilitation and to support those who are working to help sick and injured people regain their independence. Visit their website to download the UKRC Rehabilitation Standards, intended for use by commissioners and users of rehabilitation services to help them choose the most appropriate service providers.
BackCare is a national charity that aims to reduce the impact of back pain on society by providing information, support, promoting good practice and funding research. BackCare acts as a hub between patients, (healthcare) professionals, employers, policy makers, researchers and all others with an interest in back pain. The charity publishes the BackCare Journal, a quarterly journal which can be read online.
The National Obesity Observatory for England is a single point of contact for wide-ranging authoritative information on data and evidence related to obesity, overweight, underweight and their determinants.