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Clinicians mental health and wellbeing during COVID-19

Posted on May 20, 2021 by The Royal Society of Medicine

Episode 1: Improving clinicians mental health and wellbeing during COVID-19, what can we do? The first episode of the Mental health, wellbeing and primary care; current concerns and contemporary responses three-part webinar series will see Professor Neil Greenberg, Professor of Defence Mental Health, King’s College London, UK, and Dr Paquita de Zulueta, Honorary Senior Clinical Lecturer, Imperial College London, UK, discuss cutting edge […]

Future of lung disease care ‘at risk’

Posted on May 17, 2021 by Hippocratic Post

Future of lung disease care ‘at risk’ due to workforce shortages and backlog from COVID-19: Staffing shortages are impacting diagnosis, treatment, and care of people with lung disease, according to the Taskforce for Lung Health The Taskforce for Lung Health, a collaboration of over 30 charities, organisations and patients looking to improve lung health in England, […]

Every vaccination gives us hope

Posted on May 12, 2021 by Hippocratic Post

Every vaccination gives us hope – NHS https://youtu.be/gTqh8K2Ux4c […]

BAME BMI values outdated and dangerous

Posted on May 12, 2021 by Hippocratic Post

BAME BMI values outdated and dangerous: New research published in The Lancet today explores the urgent need to recalibrate current (and ‘outdated’) BMI guidance, reflecting the serious impact this can have on people from different ethnic groups in terms of receiving personal risk assessments for chronic conditions such as Type 2 diabetes. · Extensive study […]

Female health and care staff report deteriorating health because of COVID-19

Posted on May 5, 2021 by Hippocratic Post

Female health and care staff report deteriorating health because of COVID-19: The physical and mental wellbeing of female health and care staff in England significantly worsened as a result of working through the COVID-19 pandemic with a marked deterioration since last summer, the results of a new survey show. The poll, carried out by the NHS Confederation’s […]

How Covid-19 impacted UK healthcare

Posted on April 26, 2021 by Hippocratic Post

How Covid-19 impacted UK healthcare (Peer reviewed – survey – people): Just one third of people in the UK managed to access the hospital care they needed at the peak of the first wave of the Covid-19 pandemic – according to new research from the University of East Anglia. A new study published today looks […]

Master’s course in Molecular Precision Medicine

Posted on April 22, 2021 by Hippocratic Post

The new Master’s course in “Molecular Precision Medicine” is concerned with how diseases develop and how to treat them on a molecular and mechanistic level. The course, jointly organised by the Medical University of Vienna and University of Vienna, combines scientists from the fields of basic research as well as translational and clinical research and […]

NHS: Nursing student sisters step up to help

Posted on April 16, 2021 by Hippocratic Post

Sisters Alice and Emily Martin are helping the people of their home town by answering the NHS call for support in the fight against COVID-19. Alice and Emily are two of 22 CU Scarborough final-year nursing students that have taken on paid clinical placements to work at Scarborough Hospital and in Humber Teaching NHS Foundation […]

Flexible route into nursing

Posted on April 6, 2021 by Hippocratic Post

CU Scarborough is offering people who would like to become nurses a flexible way to study that makes it easier to balance with family life and part-time work. The new BSc (Hons) Adult Nursing Blended Learning degree (3 years) and Adult Nursing (pre-registration) Blended Learning MSc (2 years) combine flexible, fully interactive digital learning with […]

Studying Shakespeare for empathy

Posted on April 5, 2021 by The Royal Society of Medicine

Studying Shakespeare could help medical students connect with patients: A palliative care doctor has suggested that studying Shakespeare’s plays could help medical students connect more closely with their patients. Writing in the Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine Dr David Jeffrey, of the Department of Palliative Medicine at the University of Edinburgh, investigates how the playwright’s empathic approach – the […]