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How might COVID-19 affect cancer patients at different stages of their disease?
Science, Maths & Technology

How might COVID-19 affect cancer patients at different stages of their disease?

...health care resources in these unprecedented times. In general terms, clinicians will balance the benefits of the cancer treatment over the risk of SARS-CoV-2 infection to decide whether a cancer treatment should go ahead or be postponed. Treatment risks regarding COVID-19 include: How the cancer treatments affect a patient´s immune system – patients are more at risk...
Can the NHS solve its bullying problem?
Health, Sports & Psychology

Can the NHS solve its bullying problem?

...health and social care, where bullying exists we generally don’t challenge it. Common survival strategies include withdrawing from colleagues or striking up alliances with people who offer us protection. This can include establishing gang-like ways of working, such as blaming and excluding people with different views or ways of working. Gangs, unlike functioning teams,...
Influential women scientists in chemistry
Science, Maths & Technology

Influential women scientists in chemistry

...health. Here are just six key players...The contribution of women as scientists in the areas of chemistry, the environment and health are hugely significant and far-reaching. Here are just a few examples which illustrate the breadth of their previous and continuing contributions. 1: Marie Curie [portrait of Marie Curie] Marie Curie was the first woman to win a Nobel Prize...
Veganuary: can it make a positive difference?
Health, Sports & Psychology

Veganuary: can it make a positive difference?

...health’ (Veganuary 2024 campaign report). Veganuary’s mission also appears to align with the motivations of participants: in 2022, 44% of Veganuary participants cited ‘animals’, 21% ‘personal health’ and 19% ‘the environment’ as their main motivation. For Bryant, the biggest Veganuary motivation being ‘animals’ is significant, as evidence suggests that...
Youth justice in the UK: children, young people and crime Badge icon
Education & Development

Youth justice in the UK: children, young people and crime

...mental health difficulties make prison life particularly difficult and damaging for girls and young women. Compared to boys, they are three times more likely to have been victims of sexual abuse and twice as likely to have spent time in local authority care prior to incarceration. Girls and young women need an interpersonal focus to make their resettlement after custody...
Introduction to making political and social change
Society, Politics & Law

Introduction to making political and social change

...mental health issues (education and early intervention) in primary and secondary schools in Northern Ireland. They have designed mental health toolkits for teachers to use with students, they lobby politicians to try and improve mental health provision in schools, and they undertake research. Impact: They have already had some key wins on improving ......
Understanding systems thinking in practice (STiP)
Science, Maths & Technology

Understanding systems thinking in practice (STiP)

...Health Service], say). But if concentrating on parts of the problem initially seems easier, it always ends in tears, adversely affecting the system as a whole, raising costs and making it harder and harder for managers to see the link between causes and effects (Caulkin, 2006). Clear systems thinking is one of the basic literacies of the modern world, not least because it...
Will players be fit to perform or ready to burnout at Euro 2020?
Health, Sports & Psychology

Will players be fit to perform or ready to burnout at Euro 2020?

...wellbeing and performance. Will burnout be a significant factor? Since March 2020, we have all lived through a global crisis that has created new sources of stress and challenges to be faced. Sport went through a period where every event was cancelled which resulted in a longer competition period characterised by fixture congestion as we tried to catch up. For example,...