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...health and social care in the UK, are real people in real roles. By sharing their experiences through short videos, they help to bring alive the ideas studied in the course and help you to explore how they might play out in real-life situations. This material forms part of The Open University course K313 Leadership and management in health and social care... Meet the...

...public through the setting of standards and by maintaining registers of health care professionals who are deemed competent to practise in their respective area. [doctors and nurses in a corridor with a patient in a wheelchair] The ‘professional register’ held by each of the health care professional regulators is a control to provide public safety. It creates the...

...Health, the Royal College of Psychiatrists and others have attempted to tackle these public perceptions and pejorative press reporting through campaigns that aim to give the facts about the risks presented by the mentally ill. Key findings in this report should be used in this way. For example, the killing of strangers by people with mental illness is rare; most stranger...

...public in improving their health and wellbeing. Technology is being used to integrate services, provide joined-up care and reduce duplication. Digital innovation is also about trying to provide choice and control for the individual and to empower them to take responsibility for their own health and wellbeing. That said, it is necessary use evidence to justify its benefits...

...public forum. And there is this idea that women's health is unspeakable and kind of hidden and shameful still. There's still aspects, Although we're much more open in many ways, there are still particular aspects of women's bodies that we don't talk about. And I think the problem that I have is then that doctors have so much power over us, that they have the specialist...

...health? This album examines the ways in which social, environmental, economic and political factors shape and constrain our understandings and experiences of mental health and distress. It explores the wide range of diverse and frequently competing perspectives that characterise the world of mental health and looks at the impact of these perspectives on mental health...