COVID updates – in association with Macmillan Cancer Support

• Covid-19 treatments could be fast tracked through new national clinical trial initiative

This will accelerate the development of new drugs for patients hospitalised with COVID-19, reducing the time taken to set up clinical studies for new therapies from months to weeks. Click here to access: https://www.gov.uk/government/news/covid-19-treatments-could-be-fast-tracked-through-new-national-clinical-trial-initiative?utm_source=cfe12fba-ccf3-4b34-a54b-858f4733d771&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=govuk-notifications&utm_content=daily

• Current awareness service for health 

Links and Resources to provide easy access to the key sources of information about the pandemic. Click here to access: http://cash.libraryservices.nhs.uk/subject-a-z/i/infection-prevention-and-control/covid-19/

• COVID-19 rapid guideline: antibiotics for pneumonia in adults in hospital

NICE guidance available here: https://www.nice.org.uk/guidance/ng173

• COVID-19: guidance on shielding and protecting people defined on medical grounds as extremely vulnerable, Government updated 5.5.20- https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/guidance-on-shielding-and-protecting-extremely-vulnerable-persons-from-covid-19 

• NICE have 9 evidence summaries available and are planning to be the central source for COVID information https://www.nice.org.uk/guidance/conditions-and-diseases/infections/covid19/products?ProductType=Advice&Recent=NewInLast6Months
• Evidence standards framework for SARS-CoV-2 and anti-SARS-CoV-2 antibody diagnostic tests https://www.nice.org.uk/Media/Default/About/what-we-do/covid-19/Diagnostic-tests-for-COVID-19-evidence-standards-framework.pdf
• A great resource for patients trying to cope with the effects of COVID or just general breathlessness http://flipbooks.leedsth.nhs.uk/LN004864.pdf
• Covid-19 Pandemic—An Opportunity to Reduce and Eliminate Low-Value Practices in Oncology? https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamaoncology/article-abstract/2767424
• Weekly Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) Surveillance Report, PHE, https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/897199/Weekly_COVID19_Surveillance_report_-_week_27.pdf
• NHS Providers recovery position https://nhsproviders.org/media/689775/recovery-position-what-next-for-the-nhs.pdf
• Greater risk of severe COVID-19 in Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic populations is not explained by cardiometabolic, socioeconomic or behavioural factors, or by 25(OH)-vitamin D status: study of 1326 cases from the UK (2020) https://academic.oup.com/jpubhealth/article/doi/10.1093/pubmed/fdaa095/5859581
• Coronavirus and shielding of clinically extremely vulnerable people in England, latest update https://www.ons.gov.uk/releases/coronavirusandshieldingofclinicallyextremelyvulnerablepeopleinengland9juneto18june2020