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...et al, 2015). Those people that do get professional help still value other forms of support with informal sources being widely used. In a survey about support for mental health problems in the UK (Open University 2011) 71% of respondents reported receiving informal support from family and friends. Get professional help, but confide in people closest to you also. It’s...

...et al. (2012) have also explored what they describe as ‘latent failures’ that underpin medication errors. Their approach recognises that mistakes are usually made at the front line, and in the case of medicine errors it is likely to be nurses who are at the front line. They also acknowledge that organisations have inherent weaknesses which can be attributed to:...

...et al, 2019). Support from family and friends Family and friends may struggle to support grieving families because they don’t know what to say or do in response to parents’ distress. But talking about the baby and being able to say their baby’s name can be important for grieving parents. Of course, family members such as siblings and grandparents are grieving too,...

...et al., 2020) and, in 2021, there were 214,256 abortions in England and Wales (Office of Health Improvement and Disparities, 2023). Except for the work done by Fiona Bloomer and colleagues (2017, 2023), in the Northern Irish context, little is known about abortion in UK workplace contexts. Abortion is also highly stigmatised and is often seen as an ethical rather than a...