Sophie*, 30, is another nurse who will be striking. Like Ciara, Sophie has had a difficult time working in the NHS recently. “Every day is a struggle. The amount of pressure I am currently under is overwhelming,” she tells me. “I often wonder whether I should leave the NHS...
But this isn't the only reason many junior doctors are striking. The strain of working through COVID-19, increasing demands onhealth services, and growing numbers of medical and nursing colleagues leaving the NHS are all causing stress andburnoutfor junior doctors. Many hope these strikes may b...
South Asian people are known to be particularly atrisk of diabetes, at least in part due to the tendency to accumulate fat around the abdomen, which is strongly related to the risk of developing diabetes.
①One reason is that many of the new termscome across asdehumanising. ②As theLancetdiscovered, many people—trans men as much as anyone else—dislike being described as collections ofambulatorybody-parts andsecretions. ③More than awhiffofmisogynyis in the air. ④It is striking that there is...
The recent scufflebetween Bob Geldof and Ed Sheeran over the ‘right’ way for multimillionaire rock stars to behave towards Africa offers a striking illustration of two kinds of pop arrogance, ancient and modern. To mark the 40th anniversary of Band Aid’s ‘Do They Know it’s Christmas?’...
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The most striking thing was not her description of the project or what she had learnt or the benefits for patients, but instead how it had made her feel "valued and respected." A manager's job is to achieve organisational goals. In the NHS, this includes meeting emergency and elective ...
So, these are the three groups of people. How well have we done with it? Well, it has to be individualised. And in mid-March, NHS England issued six priority groups for chemotherapy, five priority groups for radiotherapy, which is great. And that was a really good start, that made sen...
Maybe they are hoping it isn’t a hobby, but that would be a mistake. The Vision Pro’s trajectory is clear to me. It will lose money for years until it finds a vertical market where the price doesn’t matter. Along the way two important effects will also have happened: 1) th...