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Success and failure in healthcare: should regulation be simple or integrated?
Health, Sports & Psychology

Success and failure in healthcare: should regulation be simple or integrated?

...Health Service) logo at the Springfields Medical Centre in the centre of Warrington, Cheshire.] In a recent radio broadcast Kevin Fong explored how helicopter emergency medical services became the most dangerous occupation in American. Cost, training and safety were implicated in a surge in the number of incidents, but an additional potential cause was regulation: or...
A hug for the brain: what does it mean to have a happy, healthy brain?
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A hug for the brain: what does it mean to have a happy, healthy brain?

...publications/mental-health-work-business-costs-ten-years/ (Accessed: 08 Jan 2024) Dattani, S. Rodés-Guirao, Ritchie, H. and Roser, M. (2018) Mental Health. Available at: https://ourworldindata.org/mental-health (Accessed: 4 January 2024). Department for Work and Pensions and Department of Health and Social Care (2017) Thriving at work: a review of mental ......
Charles Dickens: Celebrity Author
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Charles Dickens: Celebrity Author

...public figure known through his readings and speeches. He cultivated, and relished, a close relationship with the vast audiences who came to hear him, in towns and cities throughout Britain, and in the USA. His readings appealed to his own deep instinct in support of the development of the imagination of the people, and also acknowledged the common Victorian pastime of...
Understanding Fitness to Practise
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Understanding Fitness to Practise

...public, regulators, professionals, employers, lawyers and the public. Its aim was to find out about public experiences of the Fitness to Practise process and what regulators can do to improve it. As part of the project, the OpenLearn course Improving patient, family and colleague witnesses' experiences of Fitness to Practise proceedings was produced. And as part of this...
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How OpenLearn uses third-party content

...publication, the content will be reviewed by the original academic to ensure there are no problems from an academic perspective - e.g. citing discredited research Before publication, the content will be reviewed by a member of the editorial team to ensure there are no compliance problems with the piece - e.g. copyright infringement Sometimes the material has been selected...
Reflections on the Free to Bleed event at the Vagina Museum
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Reflections on the Free to Bleed event at the Vagina Museum

...Health Day, 28th May 2026...Find out more about The Open University's Law courses and qualifications. This article is part of the Free to Bleed: Data Driven Advocacy and Art for Menstrual Justice project, an Open University and Vagina Museum collaboration funded by the Open Societal Challenges initiative. It relates to Open University law modules including W340: Law,...
Addressing ethical issues in your research proposal
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Addressing ethical issues in your research proposal

...health and social care authorities, academic publications, Research Ethics Committees and research organisations provide a range of ethical guidance and resources. International codes such as the Universal Declaration of Human Rights underpin ethical frameworks (United Nations, 1948). You may be aware of key legislation in your own country or the country where you plan to...
"I was so depressed yesterday..." - or were you?
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"I was so depressed yesterday..." - or were you?

...health to add drama to your conversation can have unintended consequences, warns Zsofia Demjen...I was recently chatting to a Vice.com editor who asked why it feels wrong when people use mental health terms in a casual, perhaps exaggerated way: ‘I totally had a panic attack yesterday!’ ‘He’s gone schizo on us’ ‘She’s so bi-polar!’ Is this offensive to...