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Three solutions for the nursing staffing crisis in the NHS
Health, Sports & Psychology

Three solutions for the nursing staffing crisis in the NHS

...social care sector. Julie Messenger, Senior Lecturer and Nursing Lead at The Open University, is a nurse with more than forty years NHS and educational experiences linked to the education of nurses, looks at the staffing challenges facing the NHS, and some of the solutions...It's no secret that our hospitals are short of staff and do not have enough equipment or...
Talking about weight in therapy – Top tips for size affirmative practice
Health, Sports & Psychology

Talking about weight in therapy – Top tips for size affirmative practice

...social status among other things all contribute to how the client is viewed and treated. 2: Does being a higher weight impact on wellbeing? [Two plus size women doing yoga] The short answer to this is yes! But not in the way you might expect. A number of critical studies dispute commonly held assumptions such as the fact that our weight is in our control, and that there...
Detecting fake images
Society, Politics & Law

Detecting fake images

...social media message with a beautiful image from a friend. The image shows a cute little girl happily hugging a large lion, as shown below. It is a touching image but isn’t it too dangerous to hug a wild animal? Would you let your daughter take part in a photo like this? I normally wouldn’t, but I would this time as I know the girl was not really hugging the lion. It...
Euro 24: Innovation and Trends in Modern Football
Health, Sports & Psychology

Euro 24: Innovation and Trends in Modern Football

...social media will play a pivotal role in engagement. UEFA and participating teams will utilise platforms like X, Instagram and TikTok to offer behind-the-scenes content, live updates and interactive features. Advertisers will vie for fan attention with live sports data, personalisation, and dynamic real-time content. With 77% of fans engaging in at least one other...
Advance Care Planning (ACP ) - Discuss, Decide, Document and Share
Health, Sports & Psychology

Advance Care Planning (ACP ) - Discuss, Decide, Document and Share

...social care professionals (and anyone else who might have to make decisions about our care). It empowers the family and the team of professionals to make decisions in a timely manner. Research in England indicates that when someone has had an advance care plan in place at the time of death, the bereaved were more likely to rate their end-of-life care as excellent or...
Should we educate prisoners?
Society, Politics & Law

Should we educate prisoners?

...social rights denied to prisoners, the right to education is inequitable to what is available to their peers in the community. Education as a public good According to the Ministry of Justice, "research evidence strongly suggests that education in prison can help people desist (move away) from offending". The UK has one of the highest rates of re-offending in the Western...
The ageing brain: 'use it or lose it'
Health, Sports & Psychology

The ageing brain: 'use it or lose it'

...social – meet with people you already know and also with those who you may not know. Engage with anything you like and you are likely to engage with again in the future. As with any exercise, if we wish for the exercise to have effect on us we need to engage with the exercise repeatedly and we are more likely to repeat something we enjoy doing. Research also indicates...
Pineapples and Pashto: building intercultural competence through Peace Education
Education & Development

Pineapples and Pashto: building intercultural competence through Peace Education

...social development rooted in a commitment to ‘peace’: not only the absence of violence but also the presence of relationships that work well. All school communities are diverse in a myriad of different ways. They are made up of people from different social classes, ethnicities, linguistic and cultural backgrounds, income brackets and genders. This means that a...