National Lead #socialcare @UKHSA. #Publichealth #sexualhealth doc NED @UHSussex. Swale, Kent in my bones. https://xitter.gq/t.co/5GP3jRBUk4
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Metrics for the trade offs between infection impacts and care/daily life impacts is so important. Yes infections have unpredictable, non-linear trajectory. But we know *a lot* about what is good in #socialcare. Time to bring it into #pandemic planning and practice
@CMO_England #COVID technical report has a chapter on care homes, notes that information on resident experience, and on trade-offs is lacking. But the tools do exist to understand #socialcare outcomes - but not well known in health, the dominant culture gov.uk/government/publicatio…
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By me in @ConversationUK: 'Scabies outbreak in UK and Europe – what you need to know' (lnkd.in/ePkesuNc).
Amidst rising cases & harmful myths, I have written this for a public audience & answer:
* What is scabies & how do people catch it?
* Are scabies cases rising, & if so why?
* Who is most at risk of catching scabies?
* Is scabies caused by poor personal hygiene?
* What are the symptoms?
* How contagious is scabies & how long can mites survive off the body?
* Why does scabies treatment sometimes fail or seem not to work?
* Why was an oral medication recently introduced?
* Is scabies becoming resistant to medicated cream?
* What are the emotional & mental health effects of scabies on patients and families?
* Why do shame and embarrassment make scabies harder to control?
* What should people do if they think they have scabies?
Based on my ongoing @NIHRARCs supported #PublicHealth research at @ARC_KSS + @BSMSMedSchool (a collaboration between @SussexUni, @uniofbrighton, & @UHSussex).
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Interview with me in @MetroUK on the need to @ControlScabies in schools, care homes, & other crowded institutions. Online today, in print edition later this week.
Our @BSMSMedSchool @ARC_KSS research enabled UK licensing of oral #ivermectin treatments, and I continue to support teams managing outbreaks nationwide (and evaluate outcomes).
For practical guidance and disease dynamics see @SpringerNature book chapter by myself, @jackiecassell & Steve Walker:
'Scabies Management in Institutions' link.springer.com/chapter/10… Free to read version:
sussex.figshare.com/articles…
Outbreak of medieval disease could wreak havoc on schools and care homes trib.al/NA9PlkX
This, which I learned from Lucy, is something all of us in health and #healthprotectipn should know. Just like viral load and antibody graphs by pathogen. #DisasterRecoveryCurve
Prof Jackie Cassell retweeted
A heartfelt thank you to @bethanyalinder for her outstanding contributions to the CovDem project funded by @UKHSA Your dedication and collaborative spirit have been instrumental in shaping this work with @jackiecassell #DementiaResearch #preparedeness @BSMSMedSchool @BSMS_CDS
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📢📢📢 hot off the press !
#Coproducing a culturally sensitive #storytelling intervention with #Nepalese #migrant workers
@KeeleUniversity @BSMSMedSchool @PadamSimkhada @jackiecassell @spwasti @AliceMoult bmjopen.bmj.com/content/15/2…
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Unpaid carers have their allowance taken from them when in hospital caring but they are still caring
Why not ask hospitals to sign a form saying “relative remained in situ caring over 35 hrs a wk” “we didn’t have the skill to provide the care the person needed
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Culture warriors don’t like these questions. They want to shout their certainties ever louder and appear afraid of challenge. In other top performing OECD countries curriculum reform is cyclical, involves a wide range of stakeholders and does not generate outrage.
Really sympathise here on #migraine. Mine not so extreme but taking #amlodipine for hypertension has almost eliminated mine. Worth a trial as a cheap out of patient, @NIHRresearch @MHRAgovuk ?
There's nothing like it for the #mentalhealth of teachers to work up a grant application with a deadline of New Year's Eve. Especially the parents who have little else to do over the holidays. Well done @SchoolMHealth 😊 @NEUnion @suttontrust
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This is fantastic stuff. Makes one nostalgic for Glenda Jackson on Morecambe and Wise, as Cleopatra in 1971 sadly blocked on YouTube- please @bbcentertain
'We live in a world where the person who wants to get a programme about classical music commissioned, a book about it published, or a course about it validated has to hack their way through an impenetrable thicket of inverted snobbery'. On Face the Music. thecritic.co.uk/make-high-cu…
Prof Jackie Cassell retweeted
If you’re interested in applying for public health specialty training, see this session tomorrow at 10am ⤵️⤵️⤵️
On November 5th, The Office for Health Improvement & Disparities @OHID are hosting a taster session for those interested in applying for Public Health Speciality Training.
Find out more and register here ⬇️
bit.ly/osphtts
Prof Jackie Cassell retweeted
I explain here why the fear of civil disorder has become so entangled with emergency response and is ingrained into every decision central government makes 👇
Prof Jackie Cassell retweeted
New from our @BSMSMedSchool @cdtafrica team (Hounsome, @yirgurob, me, @jackiecassell, @abebawfekadu, Davey): Cost-effectiveness of mass drug administration for control of scabies in Ethiopia: a decision-analytic model. See @FrontPubHealth: frontiersin.org/journals/hea….
Part of @GlobHealth_BSMS @NTDsResearch funded by @NIHRglobal. #SkinNTDs #NTDs #tropicaldermatology #scabies @ControlScabies
I'd love to hear from #socialcare #carer colleagues, thoughts on how to minimise transmission risks while supporting social contacts, when #infection stuff happens. In care homes between residents, also in community.
ALT Young man holding old man's pushchair, looking expectantly into the street ro something to happen
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A very warm welcome to @bethanyalinder at @BSMSMedSchool @BSMS_CDS @BSMSClinNeuro
I am delighted that @bethanyalinder joined our team with @jackiecassell @laviniaresearch @EddyDavelaar @UKHSA @alzheimerssoc 👋
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11 #scabies care home outbreaks in Bolton. This is a common #PublicHealth issue: 250 institutional outbreaks in England in 1 year, mostly #CareHomes. Advice in our (me, @jackiecassell, SL Walker) @SpringerNature chapter: Scabies Management in Institutions link.springer.com/chapter/10…
#FOI shows 11 outbreaks of scabies in Bolton’s care homes have been detected since 2021, causing 55 suspected cases of the disease across nine homes.
There were three outbreaks in 2021, another three in 2022, four in 2023 and one in March of this year.
theboltonnews.co.uk/news/243…
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@WenjingZhang_ presenting on behalf our team @BunnDiane @Nick_Os_Smith and colleagues on a @UKHSA funded study looking at the impact of infection control measures in #carehomes @jackiecassell
Four years on, our family and friends COVID-19 #QuarantineStoryTime continues, now only weekly. Tomorrow we will be educating our young on the political process with this #Clangers classic. youtube.com/watch?v=SG0rqD82…. Some background here news.bbc.co.uk/today/hi/toda…
ALT The Clangers, an image from their election special 1974