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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?

...care we all expect to receive. The difference between success and failure in healthcare depends largely on having educated and trained professionals and their co-workers. Modern healthcare also relies on tools, machines and medicines. And of course, healthcare professionals and their co-workers’ scope of practice, their technical gadgetry and medicinal substances are...
Do animals really raise human babies as their own?
Nature & Environment

Do animals really raise human babies as their own?

...cared for by a non-human surrogate. [A female wolf in the snow] Shall I be mother? In Kipling’s original The Jungle Book, published in 1894, the “man-cub” Mowgli is taken in by a wolf pack after he is separated from his human parents by Shere Kahn, the tiger. The choice of wolves as parental stand-ins for the lost human toddler is arguably more plausible than him...
The benefits of a longer product life
Science, Maths & Technology

The benefits of a longer product life

...caring and repairing for clothing items, now deemed disposable. Our then neighbour, a retired engineer in his 80s, carefully maintained his work tools, accompanied by boxes of nails and screws of all shapes and sizes just in case they were ever needed. These memories are remnants of a recent time when, in everyday life, we had the capability to re-jig, alter, mend,...
The taste of love on different tongues: What language tells us about love
Languages

The taste of love on different tongues: What language tells us about love

...care and respect I have for my wife. But I will also call upon it to describe the unshakeable bonds of kinship and history I share with my family, and the connections and allegiances I have with close friends. I’ll even use it in relation to our cheeky dog Daisy, the music of Tom Waits, Sunday morning lie ins and many other things. Clearly, whatever love is, it spans a...
Hidden soil allies – fungi that help plants face drought
Nature & Environment

Hidden soil allies – fungi that help plants face drought

...care? Think of mycorrhizal fungi as “extra roots” for plants. When they attach to roots, they spread thin filaments into the soil, reaching far beyond where roots can go. This partnership is a true exchange: the plant provides the fungus with sugars and lipids coming from photosynthesis, and the fungus facilitates the absorption of water and nutrients like phosphorus...
The 2015 Autumn Statement: First responses
Society, Politics & Law

The 2015 Autumn Statement: First responses

...care and “front-loading” a promised £8 billion might just keep the NHS on the rails. Or maybe not. Hospitals anticipate £2.2 billion in deficits this year. And a seven-day NHS will cost hospitals £1 billion-£1.5 billion a year, plus the same again for primary care. Together, these costs could soak up the new funds. Public health and social care budgets are not...
Identifying Values – Finding the Things that Matter the Most to You for the Way You Live and Work
Health, Sports & Psychology

Identifying Values – Finding the Things that Matter the Most to You for the Way You Live and Work

...Caring be caring towards myself, others, the environment etc. Challenge keep challenging myself to grow, learn, improve Compassion act with kindness towards those who are suffering Connection engage fully in whatever I do, and be fully present with others Contribution contribute and help, or make a positive difference to myself or others Conformity be respectful and...
Formulating research questions
Education & Development

Formulating research questions

...care. However, the issues considered have relevance to research in other public policy and service arenas...‘Community collaboration is the cornerstone of EDI in research’ (Texas Centre for Equity Promotion). When setting out to formulate a research question, researchers are working to at least two immediate agendas. Firstly, the priorities of the funders of research,...