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Data visualisation of today’s most intriguing health and health care trends
Data visualisation of today’s most intriguing health and health care trends
It is widely recognised that people who feel in control, empowered and confident to take a lead role in their health care have better outcomes. Supporting patients in this way is a fundamental compone...
It started like an Agatha Christie novel: a group of people from around the world, huddled together in an English country house, waiting for the ash from an Icelandic volcano to clear from the skies a...
On Wednesday the government announced that, from 2017, students starting their training in nursing, midwifery and the allied health professions (AHPs) will need to take out student loans when the curr...
In the midst of delivering my second child, I got fleeting moments of respite. I caught glimpses of the future, and could envisage life with less pain, despite being up against what felt like impossib...
Researchers who observed a child day care centre found that on average eight parents per week were late picking up their children. One day a sign was placed outside stating that a late parent would in...
Through this decade of austerity, health will have been protected relative to other government departments. But huge challenges remain for the NHS. The widely welcomed announcement that NHS England...
The dust now starts to settle on the spending review. While additional funding is welcomed (with important caveats), there will always be those who question whether funding health care solely through ...
'What we know is that our current models for delivering long-term care aren’t sustainable. We can’t keep being paternalistic and wanting to fix everybody and expecting everybody to just comply with ou...