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Disability and work: breaking the barriers

In the UK there are around 16 million people with a disability (Kirk-Wade, 2023). In England, in the first year of the COVID-19 pandemic, 60% of COVID-19-related deaths occurred among disabled...

The Man Hug: a men's mental health podcast

Podcasts offer an additional means of enhancing mental health literacy in regions with limited access to services (Caoilte et al, 2023). Podcasts are being increasingly used in mental health contexts...

Principles and collaborative practices: a roundup of summer publications

The Patient Safety Commissioner (PSC) recently published a consultation paper on draft principles of better patient safety (PSC, 2024a). The principles will act as a guide, the PSC states, for senior...

Statutory reform of the death certification process in England and Wales

There has been little change to the death registration process for over 50 years. Registrars relied on the MCCD issued by a single attending doctor to proceed with certification. Only cases referred...

Recognising the benefits and challenges of simulated practice learning

Following the changes to the Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC) education programme standards in 2023, a programme of work commenced to explore further how practice learning can be supported

That common condition: the human race

In our polarised world, divisions seem to deepen as each day passes. There is an urgent need for all of us to revisit and reaffirm the notion of our shared humanity. The concept of the human race as a...

Learning disability advanced practitioners in primary care

At the start of my career, there were ongoing discussions about the need for learning disability nurses, and these conversations have persisted over the years. Despite these debates, in the evolving...

Techniques for effective study at undergraduate level

The first key area to understand is the difference between learning and ‘performing’. At university, you want to ensure that you are learning information. However, you will often find that you are...

Optimising health and social care through community wellbeing hubs

One of the significant projects under BHSCA is the establishment of the Buckinghamshire Community Wellbeing Hubs, in partnership with Buckinghamshire New University (BNU) and initially funded by NHS...

Inspiring nurses to lead on quality improvement projects to deliver excellent patient care

An earlier audit (Kidney Transplantation: Pitfalls and Ways to Improve) (Fernandez, and Banerjee, 2016) was presented at UK Kidney Week 2016. This showed that waiting for two referrals – a clinic...

The urgent need for review, rationalisation and consolidation of NHS patient safety organisations

No doubt the final Dash report on the CQC will also find that the NHS health regulatory, governance framework, patient safety system is too complex, overlapping, fragmented and ripe for reform. This...

Empowering the next generation: how nurses can champion student success

Students frequently reach out before starting their clinical placements with various concerns. Nurses should be receptive and engaging with these inquiries, responding to alleviate anxieties and...

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