Outside brings good ideas to the inside

Article Abstract:

HM Young Offender Institution and Remand Centre in Feltham, England, has established an outreach team to support and complement its health care programme. The team, which is based on the community care model of health care provision, aims to instigate a new model of prison health care. It takes referrals from primary care team GPs, the health care centre, the prison psychiatrist, prison officers and outside agencies. It has a mix of skills, including children's nursing, psychology and family therapy. It offers support for offenders with mental health difficulties who do not need inpatient admission but, with support, are able to live in the community environment of the prison.

Mental health services, Prisoners

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Sick kids' healthy ideas

Article Abstract:

Nursing practices at The Hospital for Sick Children in Toronto, Canada, are much more innovative than those in UK children's outpatient departments. The Canadian hospital, known as Sick Kids, successfully creates a family atmosphere, with its Family Information Centre providing information and offering support. Clinics are mostly run by well-qualified nurses, while in the UK the number of qualified nurses in outpatients is falling. The Sick Kids hospital incorporates a Play Park for clinic patients and their siblings. The clinics have child-life programmes and are committed to health promotion, health education and accident prevention.

Management, Canada, Practice, Hospital for Sick Children (Toronto, Ontario), Child health services, Ambulatory medical care for children, Ambulatory pediatrics

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New ideas on fractionation and accelerated radiotherapy

Article Abstract:

Research shows that some tumours of the head and neck may grow while treatment is being delivered. Radiotherapists are using new methods such as fractionation, to improve tumour control. This involves continuous, hyperfractionated, accelerated radiotherapy (CHART), and is based on work at Mount Vernon NHS Trust, which suggests that radiotherapy results improve with frequent treatment over a shorter timespan. Treatment is often finished before a reaction begins and normal tissue can recover.

Radiotherapy, Tumors

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