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...system. Around my mid-forties, I was a successful senior manager in mental health social work and then in charities across adult services. I also taught for The Open University and delighted in the variety of my work, which included teaching, practice tutor roles and delivering residential schools, which were large, a real thrill and great fun. Gradually, despite enjoying...

...systems with drugs leaves cancer cells with no way of repairing DNA damage, so they die. Transcript As we’ve written about on the Cancer Research UK blog, this idea forms the basis of an entirely new class of drugs for treating cancer, known as PARP inhibitors. PARP – or poly-ADP ribose polymerase, to give it its full name – is a protein found in all our cells, and...

...system in its widest sense – from care provided in your own home, to general practice, nursing home care and care in acute hospitals. The term has recently been coined in recognition that increasingly complex procedures are undertaken outside hospitals. Previously, when most complex healthcare was hospital based, the term hospital acquired infection was used. Welsh...