Are Schools Library Services equipped to survive in the Age of Information? by David Streatfield, Sharon Markless

“…Describes the results of an investigation in the the factors that would affect the survival and growth of School Library Services in England and Wales, including funding, staffing and service priorities. …”
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Look-alike modelling in violence-related research: A missing data approach. by Estela Capelas Barbosa, Niels Blom, Annie Bunce

“…This paper aims to provide proof of concept to create a synthetic dataset by combining data from the Crime Survey for England and Wales (CSEW) and administrative data from Rape Crisis England and Wales (RCEW), pertaining to victim-survivors of sexual violence in adulthood. …”
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Searching for the holy grail – excellent staff and carers who work with children by Kate Skinner

“…Since Utting's report, Children in the Public Care (1991), Warner's seminal report, Choosing with Care (1992) in England and Wales, and Another Kind of Home (Skinner, 1992) in Scotland, social work managers responsible for recruiting and selecting staff and carers who work with children have been exhorted to improve the methods they use. …”

COMMUNITY POLICING IN ENGLAND, WALES, AND EUROPEAN UNION: PAST, PRESENT AND FUTURE by Erkan Pala, Ercan Balcıoğlu

“…Community policing philosophy has become an attractive field within the policing literature, exercised enthusiastically by police forces across England and Wales as a response to police and crime related issues ranging from poor policepublic relations to minor crime and disorder. …”
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No Easy Way In by Kalev Aasmäe

“…This article aims to study the impact the 2012 criminalisation of residential squatting in England and Wales has had on the lived experiences and communal logics of squatters in London. …”
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Invisible Men: Unlocking Compassion and Understanding the Needs of Older Men Behind Bars by Louise Ridley, Kathryn E. Waldegrave

“…Men over 50 years of age are the fastest-growing population group in the prison system, leading to the prison service of England and Wales now becoming recognised as the largest provider of residential care for older men. …”
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Modeling the impact of twitter on influenza epidemics by Kasia A. Pawelek, Anne Oeldorf-Hirsch, Libin Rong

“…We also perform numericalsimulations, conduct sensitivity test on a few parameters related totweets, and compare modeling predictions with surveillance data ofinfluenza-like illness reported cases and the percentage of tweetsself-reporting flu during the 2009 H1N1 flu outbreak in England andWales. These results show that social media programs like Twittermay serve as a good indicator of seasonal influenza epidemics andinfluence the emergence and spread of the disease.…”
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Use of Continuous Electronic Fetal Monitoring in a Preterm Fetus: Clinical Dilemmas and Recommendations for Practice by Karolina Afors, Edwin Chandraharan

“…Lack of evidence-based recommendations may pose a clinical dilemma as preterm births account for nearly 8% (1 in 13) live births in England and Wales. 93% of these preterm births occur after 28 weeks, 6% between 22–27 weeks, and 1% before 22 weeks. …”
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The eradication of Asian longhorned beetle at Paddock Wood, UK by Dominic Eyre, Jane Barbrook

“…An eradication campaign was initiated involving the agencies responsible for plant health and forestry in England and Wales. The area was initially surveyed by visual inspection of standing trees from the ground and 24 infested trees were detected. …”
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Sharing information about domestic violence and abuse in healthcare: an analysis of English guidance and recommendations for good practice by Gene Feder, Sandi Dheensa

“…Background Over two million adults experience domestic violence and abuse (DVA) in England and Wales each year. Domestic homicide reviews often show that health services have frequent contact with victims and perpetrators, but healthcare professionals (HCPs) do not share information related to DVA across healthcare settings and with other agencies or services.Aim We aimed to analyse and highlight the commonalities, inconsistencies, gaps and ambiguities in English guidance for HCPs around medical confidentiality, information sharing or DVA specifically.Setting The English National Health Service.Design and method We conducted a desk-based review, adopting the READ approach to document analysis. …”
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Does Differential Habitat Selection Facilitate Coexistence Between Badgers and Hedgehogs? by Katie A. Lee, Antonio Uzal, Louise K. Gentle, Philip J. Baker, Richard J. Delahay, Anthony Sévêque, Robert S. Davis, Richard W. Yarnell

“…We estimated the density and occupancy of both species at 22 rural study sites in England and Wales, to explore whether food availability, habitat or the presence of badgers, explained hedgehog distributions. …”
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Qualitative evaluation of the Rehabilitation Exercise and psycholoGical support After COVID-19 InfectioN (REGAIN) randomised controlled trial (RCT): ‘you are not alone’ by Gordon McGregor, Susanne Finnegan, Martin Underwood, Joyce Yeung, James Mason, Peter Heine, Nigel Edwards, Julie Bruce, Kate Seers, Harbinder Kaur Sandhu, Helen Atherton, Sharisse Alleyne, Katie Booth, Ranjit Lall, Vivien P Nichols, Stuart Ennis, Scott McGuire, Rachel Potter, Jessica Smith, Chen Ji, Shilpa Patel, Henry Nwankwo, Kate Evans, Susie Hennings, Alastair Canaway, Grace Lobley, David Mcwilliams, Christina Jones, Emma Padfield, David Montgomery, Beatriz Lara, Becky Haley, Francesca Denton, Bartholomew Sheehan, Mariam Ratna, Elaine Fairbrother, Zoe Noakes, Bogdan Zutic, Lee Austin, Tom Forsyth, Anne Bush, Alan Bush, Patrick Sawdon, Jonathon Prosser, Lee Tompkins, Jonathon Guck, Danielle Hale, Juwairia Said, Georgie Ray, Rowena Williams, Gail Evans, Thillini Hettiarachchi, Abeesh Panicker

“…Framework and thematic analysis were used to analyse the findings.Setting England and Wales, UK.Participants Adults discharged from National Health Service (NHS) hospitals at least 3 months previously after COVID-19, with ongoing physical and/or mental health sequelae.Results Twenty intervention participants, 20 control participants and five practitioners were interviewed.The themes from the group support sessions were: (1) you are not alone; (2) sharing experiences and addressing worries; (3) gaining new perspectives; (4) hope for progression; (5) peer support and bonding; (6) integration of facilitation skills; (7) modified activity pacing and goal setting, and (8) giving participants structure. …”
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Effectiveness of a personalised self-management intervention for people living with long covid (Listen trial): pragmatic, multicentre, parallel group, randomised controlled trial by Fiona Jones, Nick Sevdalis, Adrian Edwards, Bernadette Sewell, Monica Busse, Philip Pallmann, Rachel Lowe, Shaun Harris, Aloysius Niroshan Siriwardena, Jessica Fish, Claire Potter, Muhammad Riaz, Fiona J Leggat, Andrea Jane Longman, Jackie McRae

“…Objective To evaluate the effectiveness of Listen, a self-management support intervention, for people living with long covid who were not in hospital.Design Pragmatic, multicentre, parallel group, randomised controlled trial.Setting Twenty four sites in England and Wales.Participants Identified from long covid clinic waiting lists, word of mouth, and adverts/social media self-referred to the trial, 554 adults with long covid were randomised to receive either the Listen trial intervention or NHS usual care.Interventions The Listen intervention involved up to six one-to-one personalised sessions with trained healthcare practitioners and an accompanying handbook co-designed by people with lived experience and health professionals. …”
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PROcalcitonin and NEWS2 evaluation for Timely identification of sepsis and Optimal use of antibiotics in the emergency department (PRONTO): protocol for a multicentre, open-label,... by David Taylor-Robinson, Steve Goodacre, Neil French, Richard Body, Kerenza Hood, Emma Thomas-Jones, Jane Daniels, Sarah Walker, Ingeborg Welters, Mike Bradburn, Paul Schmidt, Enitan Carrol, Lucy Brookes-Howell, Sarah Milosevic, Andrew Tabner, Philip Pallmann, Stephen Aston, Gavin Barlow, Emma Richards, Emmanuel Nsutebu, Philip Howard, Matthew Inada-Kim, Stacy Todd, Fiona McGill, Martin Llewelyn, Louis Wihelmus Niessen, Joanne Euden, Julie Carman, Stephanie Gilbert, Sam Clarkstone, Jacqui Hughes, Lena Meister, Angela Brain, Matthew Scarborough, Sian O'Shea, Claire James

“…The study has an internal pilot phase and group-sequential stopping rules for effectiveness and futility/safety, as well as a qualitative substudy and a health economic evaluation.Ethics and dissemination The trial protocol was approved by the Health Research Authority (HRA) and NHS Research Ethics Committee (Wales REC 2, reference 20/WA/0058). In England and Wales, the law allows the use of deferred consent in approved research situations (including ED studies) where the time dependent nature of intervention would not allow true informed consent to be obtained. …”
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Development of a clinical decision support tool for Primary care Management of lower Urinary tract Symptoms in men: the PriMUS study by Adrian Edwards, Ridhi Agarwal, Janine Bates, Alison Bray, Sarah Milosevic, Emma Thomas-Jones, Michael Drinnan, Marcus Drake, Peter Michell, Bethan Pell, Haroon Ahmed, Natalie Joseph-Williams, Kerenza Hood, Yemisi Takwoingi, Chris Harding

“…Setting General practices in England and Wales. Participants Men (16 years and over) consulting their general practitioner with lower urinary tract symptoms. …”
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