Self-care and wellbeing and being able to have the tools to manage it better is getting more and more important in workplaces, and health and social care are no different. With the events of recent years, the impact of the pandemic, strikes, and now the cost-of-living cris...
Contributing to the health and wellbeing of thousands of people every day is why many choose to work for the NHS, instead of opting for a typical office job. Whilst those in non-medical roles aren’t operating or performing life-saving treatment, they still play an important part in the N...
What consumers need to be aware of, she says, is whether they have bought an item and the value has increased above the single-item limit. That doesn't mean your home insurance won't necessarily cover it, but it does mean you need to disclose it. Before you disclose it, you w...
Transgender individuals experience limited access to healthcare. This results not least from experiences of discrimination to which they are exposed in the health system. These contribute to transgender individuals having poorer health than cis individua
Ms Parsons agrees: "It's a really difficult job and not very well paid and we assume that people who want to sell are people affected by poverty. "It's that sense of belonging to a community and having regular people they can talk to and a sense of being seen and heard. ...
“Finding the right supervisor is very important. Having a supervisor is a compulsory and well-organized scheme for PhD students at the University of Manchester. Your supervisor can advise on how, where, what, and when to publish. A good supervisor can shape your career choices, help regarding...
Yet, the employment of this still broad view in the current discussion requires further clarification. Who is the responsible I am talking about here? What is the source of her responsibility, and what are the actual embodiments of this responsibility-sensitive approach regarding healthcare provision...
A recent review of the literature by the James Lind Alliance (http://www.lindalliance.org/), found only one published example in eye health.1 In contrast, consumer participation is well established in other areas of health research, most notably in HIV/AIDS. Patient and public involvement ...
As a nurse on the ground it can be easy to feel powerless in the face of huge, systemic issues in healthcare. Perhaps nowhere is this more acute than the field of learning disability nursing, which has been rocked by a series of scandals and high profile cases of ...
When will government recognise that eating high sugar/high salt ultra-processed food is wrecking the health of millions and costing the NHS a fortune? We've become far too aligned with the US where the profits of the food (and pharma) companies are all that matters. ...