BAME BMI values outdated and dangerous
BAME BMI values outdated and dangerous: New research published in The Lancet today explores the urgent need to recalibrate current (and ‘outdated’) BMI guidance, reflecting...
NHS
The NHS category focuses on the people, policies and challenges shaping the UK’s publicly funded health service. It offers thoughtful analysis of organisational change, workforce issues, funding and performance, along with debate on how to improve care delivery and health outcomes. From insights into frontline practice to discussion of strategic priorities and reforms, this category brings clarity to the complex forces influencing the future of health and care in the NHS.
Female health and care staff report deteriorating health because of COVID-19
Female health and care staff report deteriorating health because of COVID-19: The physical and mental wellbeing of female health and care staff in England significantly worsened...
How Covid-19 impacted UK healthcare
How Covid-19 impacted UK healthcare (Peer reviewed – survey - people): Just one third of people in the UK managed to access the hospital care...
Master’s course in Molecular Precision Medicine
The new Master's course in "Molecular Precision Medicine" is concerned with how diseases develop and how to treat them on a molecular and mechanistic level....
NHS: Nursing student sisters step up to help
Sisters Alice and Emily Martin are helping the people of their home town by answering the NHS call for support in the fight against COVID-19....
Flexible route into nursing
CU Scarborough is offering people who would like to become nurses a flexible way to study that makes it easier to balance with family life...
Studying Shakespeare for empathy
Studying Shakespeare could help medical students connect with patients: A palliative care doctor has suggested that studying Shakespeare’s plays could help medical students connect more...
‘Substantial differences’ in who’s asked to shield from Covid-19
Researchers have found that there are substantial differences in who was asked to shield from coronavirus depending on where they live in the UK. Differences...
Andrew Lloyd Webber programme launched in NHS hospital school
Music charity provides Andrew Lloyd Webber programme to NHS hospital school in 12-month mental health and wellness pilot: Classical music education charity, Music in Secondary Schools...
Doctors: New ways to improve wellbeing
An interactive app, rest and relaxation spaces, and informal, in-person psychological support are among new ways that have been suggested to ease the stress associated...
