It’s Monday morning, and that can only mean one thing: Incisive Health’s summary of what captured our attention in health on Twitter last week.
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Counting down to the General Election, this King’s Fund's infographic looks at public satisfaction with the NHS – always a hot topic with the electorate. - Policies, patients, spending, waits, life expectancy. Five things you need to know about UK health systems set out in this Nuffield Trust infographic, via @NuffieldTrust.
- Life expectancy: which football fans are Premier League, asks Chris Cook (@xtophercook) for @bbcnews.
- Professor John Young, NHS England’s Director for Integration and Frail Elderly Care, blogs on why frailty is a diagnosis not an adjective, via @docmdmartin.
- A moving but practical blog on what to say when a baby is born with Down's syndrome, from parent Hayley Goleniowska (@DownsSideUp).
- Dying Matters' (@DyingMatters) specially commissioned You Only Live Once film starring Brian Blessed and Julie Hesmondhalgh.
- Healthwatch England is holding an inquiry into claims that dementia patients are being sent home without food or heating, via @PatientsAssoc.
- A new report from the Medical Women’s Federation looks what makes a good role model for women in medical careers.
- Wellcome Trust-funded research into a new genomics technique could improve treatment and control of malaria, via @wellcometrust.
- Global scientific output has been doubling every 9 years since World War II, according to this paper in Nature.
- And finally, from across the Atlantic, the 50 most influential leaders in US health.
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