#T1D iabetes Technology Clinical Lead Partha S Kar 🇮🇳🇬🇧🏏🎥 shares his thoughts on the recently published #T1D decision support tool to help shared decision making conversations between people and the healthcare professional about managing care.
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#PersonalisedCare

.NHS England decision support tools now include Easy Read versions covering five conditions. They help shared decision making between clinician and patient by explaining treatment, care and support options to help consider what matters most to the person.

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For #InternationalWomensDay : decision support for those with heavy periods. That's about a third of women, more commonly those whose periods are just starting or finishing. There are things that can help. Spread this document so that everyone knows:
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So pleased to see EasyRead versions of our latest decision aids for the NHS now out.
Leila Finikarides and Luna 9 | Design Studio in particular worked v closely with EasyRead users to ensure that they now have support to take part in decisions about their own health.
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How can patients get the most from their appointments with a healthcare professional?

1️⃣ Come prepared
2️⃣ Ask questions
3️⃣ When presented with an option, ensure you leave your appointment clear on the benefits, risks, alternatives and implications of doing nothing.

If you are weighing up treatments for breast cancer, you can now look up the likelihoods of side effects of different options - along with support on what to do about them at ….predict.side-effects.wintoncentre.uk
A site to go alongside breast.predict.nhs.uk which shows potential benefits

This site is the results of several years' work by people at the Winton Centre (such as Gabriel Recchia, Alice Lawrence and Leila Finikarides), statistical work from Chris Jackson, support from David Spiegelhalter but overwhelmingly from breast cancer patients and clinicians who worked with us.

Today is the 98th anniversary of the first dose of #Insulin administered to a human.

To coincide NHS England has published its 17th decision support tool to help people with type 1 diabetes decide between different technologies.

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#SharedDecisionMaking

Please retweet! These new decision support tools are for patients and clinicians too! There are now 16 on our webpages and I've even used 2 of them myself 😂

Really pleased to see these tools published. Lots of work has gone into making these useful and relevant to patients. Please take a look.
HMB and prostate tools particularly useful for primary care RCGP

This leaflet is designed to help you decide how to manage heavy periods.
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Making a decision about enlarged prostate (BPE). This leaflet is about an enlarged prostate, also called benign prostate enlargement (BPE). It will help you decide which treatment to choose.
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NHS England launches a suite of decision making aids today. Check out➡️Treatment of Varicose Veins and support your patient making the right decision for them Leila Finikarides Lindsey Cherry LegsMatter Society of Tissue Viability Accelerate Royal College of Podiatry Foot In Diabetes UK

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Making a decision about treatment for #VaricoseVeins leaflet helps you to prepare for your next appointment with your healthcare professional.
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Wrapping up this important project

Sneak preview.

To be released when NICE greenlights #ClosedLoop work - thus incorporating up to date guidelines in #T1D iabetes

A decision support tool (DST) for those with #T1D

Thank you to all who helped.

It's cooking 🙂

#gbdoc

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How to communicate health risks: a nice guide by the incomparable Maricarmen Climént for Science Media Centre España
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Science Media Centre UK David Spiegelhalter

From Bennett Institute for Public Policy —bennettinstitute.cam.ac.uk/events/cambrid…

Enter now if you have either read - or written - something that helps people make a decision! Hardingprize.online

Did President Trump catching COVID-19 affect people's beliefs about the virus? We happened to collect US data before&after in 2 studies -> Looks like Republican views changed after the news broke.
Our paper out with John Kerr Alexandra Freeman Claudia R Schneider
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