“All Our Stories” a major new exhibition at the Migration Museum in Lewisham spotlights how migration has shaped who we are in Britain and the NHS – as individuals, as communities and as a nation. Over the decades, the National Health Service has faced huge pressures, rarely more so than today. From the very beginning, […]
Children with a migration background often misdiagnosed as having an “impairment of language acquisition” : Around 45% of children in Austrian day nurseries have a first language other than German. Those who are experiencing difficulty in learning the second language are often diagnosed as having a suspected “impairment of language acquisition”. In fact, this often […]
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Amid a severe and ongoing winter crisis, it was revealed last week that the NHS has been “hemorrhaging” nurses, and the consequences may be dire. An ageing population will inevitably lead to greater demand strains on the NHS, but evidence has shown that an increasing patient-to-nurse ratio can increase the risk of inpatient deaths[1]. Furthermore, […]