Breastfeeding call to action

This week is #WorldBreastfeedingWeek.  This Unicef Video highlights the issues behind the UK’s low breastfeeding rates, and calls on the UK and devolved governments to take urgent steps to tackle this. […]

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Diaries of a First World War Nurse

Dorothea Crewdson, a Red Cross nurse, was given instructions to leave for northern France in 1915. She spent the next four years as a witness to some of the worst horror of the Great War, yet her diaries, with their beautiful hand-drawn illustrations, sparkle with warmth and humour.  #Passchendaele100   […]

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Alzheimer’s disease facts and figures

The Hippocratic Post - the liver

https://youtu.be/aLsVS0lrRD0 The Alzheimer’s Association International Conference in currently taking place in London. Learn more about the facts and figures relating to this disease here in this video.   […]

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Black women and mental health

GMC

  One in four people living in the UK will be diagnosed with a mental health illness in their lifetime, according to figures by leading mental health charity MIND. In the black community mental health is a taboo subject. It’s not widely spoken about within the community or in mainstream media. When mental health in […]

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#MentalHealthSoPoor

Our documentary aimed to address the chronic lack of government funding in the UK’s Children and Adolescent Mental Health Service (CAMHS). The concept first came on our radar when ITV Evening News Presenter, Mark Austin, spoke about his daughter’s struggle with anorexia, and the government’s subsequent failure to provide adequate support.   There is chronic […]

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It is impossible to avoid the junk food industry

How do we reeducate ourselves regarding our eating habits?  Poor diet today contributes to more death today than physical inactivity, drinking and smoking. Learn more about The Pioppi Diet by Dr Aseem Malhotra. […]

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What does drowning look like?

Watch this US video on the signs that someone is in trouble in the water. Despite the fact that this has been done in an animated format and is very simplistic, the message is hard hitting and you can almost feel the distress of the mannequin-like subject who is struggling to stay afloat. […]

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