On World Health Day, 7th April 2022, Beth Cooper discusses the Importance of health literacy for the Hippocratic Post. According to the Centres for Disease Control and Prevention, personal health literacy is ‘the degree to which individuals have the ability to find, understand, and use information and services to inform health-related decisions and actions for […]
Record number of patients delayed by 12 hours or more as Urgent and Emergency Care faces deepening crisis: The latest Emergency Department performance figures published by NHS England for January 2022 show: There were 1,246,817 attendances at major Emergency Departments 16,558 patients were delayed for 12 hours or more from decision to admit to admission This is the […]
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A new FMG course to help health and social care workers understand the many impacts of female genital mutilation (FGM) has been launched by FutureLearn in collaboration with the University of Aberdeen. The course was developed following a University of Aberdeen survey of UK medical schools that suggested graduating medical students felt under-prepared to deal […]
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Are you a senior who lives alone? If so, you’re probably well aware of just how difficult it can be to get by on your own. This is especially true if you don’t have any close family members nearby to help out when needed. But don’t worry – living on your own doesn’t have to […]
Coventry University academics have helped the World Health Organisation (WHO) create an education roadmap to tackle the shortage of nurses in North Macedonia. The WHO and North Macedonia’s Health and Education authorities commissioned a team of seven academic experts from Coventry University to conduct a two-month study to find out what should be done to […]
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Research reveals ‘ugly truth’ faced by doctors responding to Covid-19 on the frontline: A new study from The University of Bath‘s Jo Daniels and Sophie Harris captures the scale of the challenge faced by healthcare professionals responding to the pandemic. Frontline healthcare workers say they are angry at being treated as ‘Covid cannon fodder, not Covid […]
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Kindness is the best medicine when someone is grieving”, Ken Sazuze says one year after the launch of HWF’s Families Programme: It’s been one year since the Healthcare Workers’ Foundation (HWF), the charity started by and for healthcare workers, launched their Families Programme to support the families of healthcare workers who sadly lost their lives fighting […]
Coventry University academic launches Remote4All project to investigate the impact of remote e-working on people with neurodiversity and disabilities A Coventry University academic has launched a project to investigate how the shift to working from home impacts people with disabilities and neurodiversity. The COVID-19 pandemic forced millions of people across the UK to work from […]
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Stressed out Midwives turning to substance abuse: A Coventry University academic wants more support for midwives after a survey revealed more than a quarter of participants were engaging in problematic substance use. Dr Sally Pezaro, Fellow of the Royal College of Midwives and researcher in the Centre for Arts Memory and Communities (CAMC) at the […]
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How to tackle the nursing crisis: For many people the social restrictions experienced during lockdowns will have had long-lasting consequences, increasing feelings of loneliness, stress and depression. But throughout the pandemic those employed in hospitals and care settings have faced the same issues, alongside having to deal with the pressures of working on the front-line. […]