Did the Saharan dust obscure your view of Twitter? Here’s our summary of some of the best bits on health that you might have missed.
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Someone earning £30k per year contributes £1,257 to health spending according to the new HMT personal tax statements. - The £2bn transfer from the NHS to the Better Care Fund equates to running costs for 7 hospitals. A great infographic by the Foundation Trust Network.
- This is one way to get exposure to the NHS frontline. Get well soon Andrew Gwynne.
- Sir David Nicholson apparently ‘requires improvement’. How do you fare in our Health Check?
- The battle against drug resistance has just got tougher. Some pathogens develop resistance without losing potency.
- What influences long standing illness and disability – age, poverty, economic inactivity and smoking.
- There is strong support for nudges to support healthy eating, providing they don’t cost the public.
- Life expectancy in London, by tube map.
- One of the more amazing photos ever taken. A woman who survived organ failure holds her own heart after a transplant.
- In most countries as people get older they get happier. But not Russia.
- Animals as part of medical therapy – 1950s-style.
- Digital integration - is Apple about to make sense of the fragmented digital health market?
- The addictive nature of smoking. These soldiers are lighting up using a flamethrower.
- A human spinal nerve.
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Why ensuring accurate communication is important in health. - 77% of the NHS workforce are women. An interesting infographic by NHS Employers.
And in America:
- Annual workforce turnover increases costs and reduces quality.
- The use of the Patient Activation Measure – a way of predicting risks, higher costs and poorer outcomes, but what do you do with the insight it provides?
- Ten experts to follow on Twitter during ASCO 2014.
And finally…
- Ewe must be kidding! Here’s a cross between a goat & a sheep (apparently known as a ‘geep’).