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Free Course: An Introduction to Public Leadership
Money & Business

Free Course: An Introduction to Public Leadership

...public service? OpenLearn has a range of courses, articles and more to give you a real flavour for the subject...[Diverse Multiethnic People with Different Jobs] Leadership has been studied for centuries, although its examination in modern times has largely focused on the work of senior executives in private sector, profit-making organizations. If you're interested in...
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The Bottom Line Expert Opinion: Going Public
Money & Business

The Bottom Line Expert Opinion: Going Public

...public...[Businessmen running on money] To go public or not to go public – that is the question. For modern businesses, whether or not to go public is one of the biggest decisions they can face. To do so brings with it potential lucrative economic gains but substantial risks as well. It also significantly shapes how citizens interact with businesses and the economy...
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From Zero Day to Doomsday – Public Lecture
Digital & Computing

From Zero Day to Doomsday – Public Lecture

...Public Lecture – From Zero Day to Doomsday. Transcript We are delighted to invite you to From Zero Day to Doomsday, a lecture by Mike Richards on the WannaCry ransomware cyber-attack, which had serious implications last year for the NHS and businesses around the world. Date: Tuesday 27 March 2018 Time: 6:00pm – 7:30pm Venue: The Open University, Berrill Lecture...
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Leadership in Health and Social Care
Health, Sports & Psychology

Leadership in Health and Social Care

...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...
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Brexit and health care professionals
Health, Sports & Psychology

Brexit and health care professionals

...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...
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Challenging ideas in mental health
Health, Sports & Psychology

Challenging ideas in mental health

...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...
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Level 2: Intermediate 8 hrs
Accessibility and inclusion in digital health
Health, Sports & Psychology

Accessibility and inclusion in digital health

...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...
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Level 1: Introductory 4 hrs
Exploring issues in women's health
Health, Sports & Psychology

Exploring issues in women's health

...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...
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Level 2: Intermediate 3 hrs