Clinical implementation of the Validated Intraoperative Bleeding Scale: Perioperative patient management and effective team communication from the nurses' perspective.

Major bleeding represents a critical scenario that can quickly evolve into life threatening, thereby compromising patient safety. A Validated Intraoperative Bleeding Scale called VIBe Scale was introduced and studied as part of a quality improvement initiative. This study evaluated the clinical implementation of the VIBe Scale in perioperative patient management and team communication from the nurses' perspectives.

Multidisciplinary paper on patient blood management in cardiothoracic surgery in the UK: perspectives on practice during COVID-19.

The coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic disrupted all surgical specialties significantly and exerted additional pressures on the overburdened United Kingdom (UK) National Health Service. Healthcare professionals in the UK have had to adapt their practice. In particular, surgeons have faced organisational and technical challenges treating patients who carried higher risks, were more urgent and could not wait for prehabilitation or optimisation before their intervention.

Help to Overcome Problems Effectively for Cancer Survivors: Development and Evaluation of a Digital Self-Management Program.

Background: People living with cancer face numerous psychosocial challenges, including cancer-related fatigue, fear of recurrence, and depression. There is a lack of digital interventions tailored to the needs of people living with all types of cancer. We developed a 6-week, digital, peer-delivered, self-management program: iHOPE (Help to Overcome Problems Effectively; where 'i' indicates the digital version of the program).

Non-medical practitioner roles in the UK: who, where, and what factors influence their development?

Background: traditional health workforce roles are changing, with existing roles being extended and advanced, while new roles are being created, often undertaking duties previously completed by doctors, sometimes referred to as non-medical practitioners (NMPs).

Aim: to investigate which NMP roles exist within the UK, mapping distribution, and explore factors influencing their development and recruitment.

Methods: two descriptive, exploratory, online self-completed semi-structured questionnaires were used.

The evidence base for circulating tumour DNA blood-based biomarkers for the early detection of cancer: a systematic mapping review.

Background: The presence of circulating cell-free DNA from tumours in blood (ctDNA) is of major importance to those interested in early cancer detection, as well as to those wishing to monitor tumour progression or diagnose the presence of activating mutations to guide treatment. In 2014, the UK Early Cancer Detection Consortium undertook a systematic mapping review of the literature to identify blood-based biomarkers with potential for the development of a non-invasive blood test for cancer screening, and which identified this as a major area of interest. This review builds on the mapping review to expand the ctDNA dataset to examine the best options for the detection of multiple cancer types.