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...health advocates and other health promoting organisations recommend that items with artificial sweeteners should not be part of children’s ‘advertised diet’. This includes the World Health Organization’s Regional Office for Europe that has developed a set of guidelines for assessing foods that should or should not be advertised to children. Why is this – isn’t...

...Health and Social Care courses. There are currently around 7,000 people on the UK transplant waiting lists and over 420 people died waiting for a transplant last year (2021). The Organ donation law in parts of the UK has recently changed to an ‘opt out’ system. This should increase the numbers of potential organs available for transplant and help save the lives of...

...health and social care sector. Julie Messenger, Senior Lecturer and Nursing Lead at The Open University, is a nurse with more than forty years NHS and educational experiences linked to the education of nurses, looks at the staffing challenges facing the NHS, and some of the solutions...It's no secret that our hospitals are short of staff and do not have enough equipment...

...health service avoids a greater flow of people through the health service later. From a systems perspective, this demonstration is a simple system process that has two stages: The population (Bucket 1, which is a population of 65 million) and the health system (which has limited capacity). This system is shown below. [Systems model depicting spread of coronavirus] Systems...