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Can engineering help improve patient safety?
Science, Maths & Technology

Can engineering help improve patient safety?

...Health Service and in healthcare worldwide. She has recently taken up the role as RAND Professor of Health Services Research, having moved here from the University of Leicester. It is, she admits, going to be a challenge. Many different policies and approaches have been tried to date, but few with widespread success, and often with unintended consequences. Financial...
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The jury: Why we need to learn more about their collective decision-making processes.
Society, Politics & Law

The jury: Why we need to learn more about their collective decision-making processes.

...Mental Health Act 1983 (The Juries Act, 1974). Additionally, a jury is not used in every criminal case but they are used in the most serious of cases when a defendant enters a plea of not guilty, e.g. murder (Gordon, 2015). The idea behind using juries is that an accused person is tried by a representative sample of their peers and therefore they receive a fair trial...
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Scottish lecturers take strike action in campaign for fair pay
Society, Politics & Law

Scottish lecturers take strike action in campaign for fair pay

...mental health issues while developing new teaching materials and methods. At the same time, they juggled family and other commitments (often simultaneously). The one-off payment was therefore seen by many lecturers as a slap in the face, an insult. [A group of lecturers picketing outside Edinburgh college]EIS FELA strikers on picket line duty, Edinburgh College, May 2022...
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57 genders (and none for me?) - Part One
Society, Politics & Law

57 genders (and none for me?) - Part One

...mental health problems and suicide in these groups. As somebody who identifies outside the gender binary myself, I can feel this shift. Of course I shouldn’t need a big social networking service to tell me that I’m legitimate, but it does make a palpable difference to how I feel right now writing this post. Increasing numbers of people find that the gender dichotomy...
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Beth fedra i wneud am fy iechyd meddwl pan nad oes gennyf y cymorth sydd ei angen arnaf?
Health, Sports & Psychology

Beth fedra i wneud am fy iechyd meddwl pan nad oes gennyf y cymorth sydd ei angen arnaf?

...Mental Health through Social Support: Building Positive and Empowering Relationships, London: Jessica Kingsley. Mae’r adnodd hwn yn rhan o ‘Gasgliad Llesiant ac Iechyd Meddwl’ wedi ei greu gan y Brifysgol Agored yng Nghymru. Gallwch ddysgu mwy a dod o hyd i gyrsiau, erthyglau a gweithgareddau eraill ar dudalen hafan y casgliad. Rhowch gynnig ar gwrs AM DDIM Cymorth...
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Perspectives on social work: individual stories
Health, Sports & Psychology

Perspectives on social work: individual stories

...mental health social worker. Our code of practice for mental health is different to the one they have in England. They're small but important differences,and you have to know them. The way you apply the Mental Capacity Act is different in England. It's important to recognize that there are differences. We're not the same as England and Scotland. They have small...
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Level 1: Introductory 2 hrs
Hospital: Dementia patients
Health, Sports & Psychology

Hospital: Dementia patients

...health care needs - which might not be best suited to time spent at A&E...Carl & Patricia 75-year-old Carl's dementia has dramatically worsened and his family take him to A&E after he becomes aggressive at home. Patricia, his wife of 25 years, looks after him without the help of carers, but is reaching breaking point. Carl is admitted to the hospital's specially designed...
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Open Mathematics
Science, Maths & Technology

Open Mathematics

...health and safety requirements. The five video tracks in this album follow the work of railway employees as they monitor and develop the service to suit passenger demand and ensure safety systems are in place. The material forms part of the course MU120 Open Mathematics... Open Mathematics A short introduction to this album. Running Trains Safely Steam trains in the...
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Audio 25 mins