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The drive to improve patient safety in the NHS in England
Health, Sports & Psychology

The drive to improve patient safety in the NHS in England

...leadership that is similarly committed to open-minded investigation and which places the interests of patients above those of meeting financial or efficiency targets. If staff are afraid of the results of not meeting targets, they are not likely to be open about problems they are aware of, which could lead to errors. This leads to a further precondition – that patients...
COP28: inside the United Arab Emirates, the oil giant who hosted the 2023 climate change summit
Nature & Environment

COP28: inside the United Arab Emirates, the oil giant who hosted the 2023 climate change summit

...leadership ambitions is not out of the question. At some point, one of the major oil-exporting countries must announce plans to leave some of its commercially recoverable oil permanently untapped. COP28 provided an ideal platform. A participating country may make such a commitment with the caveat that it first needs to build infrastructure powered by renewable energy and...
Developing resilience in sport
Health, Sports & Psychology

Developing resilience in sport

...leadership and communication but also things around kind of forming a really good social identity within the team. So I think relationships are really, really important. And then secondly, one of the key messages, really, that we’ve kind of come across is that just because you’ve got a set of resilient individuals, that doesn’t necessarily guarantee a resilient...
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The caring manager in health and social care
Health, Sports & Psychology

The caring manager in health and social care

...leadership in reducing stress when implementing change in health and social care...The caring manager in health and social care: 1 Understanding stress and anxiety - The primary focus of this first section is to explore an important question in the area of leading, managing and caring, specifically: What causes stress and anxiety?...The caring manager in health and social...
Compassion and care: staff experiences of death, the role of bereavement policies in higher education
Health, Sports & Psychology

Compassion and care: staff experiences of death, the role of bereavement policies in higher education

...leadership is important in ensuring staff receive equitable and compassionate responses. References: Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) (2006) Is Work Good for Your Health and Well-being? [Online]. Available at: https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/health-work-and-wellbeing-evidence-and-research (Accessed: 10 April 2018). Taylor, M., Greg, M., Nicol, D., and...
Is Obama's Iran legacy under threat?
Society, Politics & Law

Is Obama's Iran legacy under threat?

...leadership role while simultaneously scaling back on the interventionist excesses of George W. Bush. And few issues pulled those priorities together as neatly as did the dispute over Iran’s nuclear programme. Iranian-Western relations had nosedived during the younger Bush’s presidency, during which the possibility of military action against the Islamic Republic was a...
Despite sanctions, North Korea's nuclear programme is enjoying success. How?
Society, Politics & Law

Despite sanctions, North Korea's nuclear programme is enjoying success. How?

...leadership’s frequent factory visits has shown that North Korea has acquired advanced computer numerically controlled (CNC) machine tools which are of use in missile and nuclear programs. Photographs from the recent parade in April 2017 suggest that North Korea’s new SLBM was constructed with wound filament. This material is lighter and stronger than aluminum, and a...
Brexit: an economic strategy from the left?
Society, Politics & Law

Brexit: an economic strategy from the left?

...leadership just needs to listen to leading law experts on the matter. Indeed, former adviser to Labour’s shadow Europe ministers, Andy Tarrant co-wrote a report dispelling such claims. They conducted a legal assessment of 26 of Labour’s economic proposals and found that the effect of EU or Single Market membership to be negligible. In addition, Brexit would not...