All articles by Shirley Accini

Care with confidence: healthcare data security

It seems like every week news breaks of a fresh health service data breach. In mid-April 2012, a London healthcare…
Crohn’s disease: management and market

Crohn's disease is a chronic inflammatory bowel disease of the gastrointestinal mucosa that can affect any portion of the gastrointestinal…
Sober realisation: specialist support for the NHS’s alcohol problems

Debate and discussion around how healthcare systems should handle the issue of alcohol is anything but new. In 2001, the…
Telemedicine: remote-control care

Telemedicine as a concept has been around for some time. The idea of being able to speak to a physician…
Privacy by Design: improving data security with RFID

Radio frequency identification (RFID) is a wireless technology that uses radio frequency signals to transmit and receive data from RFID…

To the point: improving injection technique

The first 'UK Injection Technique Recommendations' for people with diabetes who use injectable therapies was published in 2010. The recommendations…
Chew the fat: the obesity epidemic

When UK Health Secretary Andrew Lansley announced his "national ambition" to cut five billion calories a day from Britons' diets…
Personalised wound care

Chronic, slow-healing wounds are a worldwide silent epidemic. Each year, approximately 34.5 million chronic wounds are reported globally, with over…
Flu jabs in the workplace

As the 2011-12 flu season in the Northern Hemisphere ends, public health agencies and healthcare providers will no doubt be…