Blog and updates
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18 Oct 2023
Watch Again: UCAS Personal Statement Clinic
In case you missed it, here is the link to the replay of our livestream offering information and advice to students applying through UCAS for Health & Social Care Professional degrees
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17 Oct 2023
Job Profile: Palliative Care Assistant
Palliative care assistants are healthcare assistants that provide specialist and end of life care and support to patients and their families.
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13 Oct 2023
The GoodSAM app
The GoodSAM app is a smartphone app that is contributing to saving the lives of individuals experiencing cardiac arrest across the world. It is in use in the UK and Australia.
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12 Oct 2023
Is vaping harmful to your health and to the environment?
There is so much in the news about vapes right now, this is a useful podcast episode to listen to. Sliced Bread: Vapes This episode explores the environmental and health impacts of vaping.Nearly...
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11 Oct 2023
Knife Crime: What Can We Do To Combat This Crisis?
Knife crime surged between 2013 and 2023, prompting various interventions to address the issue.
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10 Oct 2023
If You Don’t Know: Losing Your Wife and Son Ft. Global Boga
If You Don't Know is a Radio 1xtra podcast hosted by De-Graft Mensah. Updated weekly, De-Graft explores black voices and stories.
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9 Oct 2023
Job Profile: Operating Department Practitioner
If you have ever had surgery in an NHS hospital, the team that looked after you before, during and after surgery probably included an operating department practitioner (ODP).
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6 Oct 2023
At Home with the Furys
If you are lucky enough to have Netflix, you might want to watch the latest documentary series At Home with the Furys.
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5 Oct 2023
Radiotherapy for Prostate Cancer
As of August 2023, Prostate Cancer UK reported that over 52,000 men are diagnosed with prostate cancer every year in the UK. Some 30% of these patients will receive radiotherapy as their main...
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4 Oct 2023
Kinship Care Week
The theme for this year's Kinship Care Week is to #DoOneThing to raise awareness and keep kinship care in the spotlight.
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3 Oct 2023
Stoptober
Stoptober is a month long, national campaign to encourage smokers to quit. It has taken place every October since 2012. The principal aim of the campaign is to encourage smokers to try quitting...
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2 Oct 2023
Job Profile: Family Support Worker
Family Support Worker is an important social care role. Also known as family liaison workers, or parent support workers, or family support practitioners, they offer practical and emotional support...
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29 Sept 2023
Feel Good in the Forest!
Feel Good in the Forest is a joint initiative between Forestry England, Sport England and the National Lottery, aimed to promote physical activity, wellbeing and resilience by connecting with nature.
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28 Sept 2023
Best Thing Since Sliced Bread?
One of my favourite radio shows is Sliced Bread on BBC Radio 4. Greg Foot investigates products making bold claims, from vitamin supplements and hay fever remedies, natural deodorants and bottled...
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27 Sept 2023
Bias in Health and Care Research
Research is vitally important. It broadens our understanding and helps us to make important decisions.
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26 Sept 2023
Reducing donor organ rejection with stem cells
You may have seen in the news that an 8 year old girl has become the first kidney transplant recipient in the UK not to require ongoing anti-rejection drugs. Girl receives UK's first...
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25 Sept 2023
RCN launches a new definition of nursing!
Last week the Royal College of Nursing (RCN) officially launched its 'new definition' of nursing. Given that the last time they published a definition of nursing was 20 years ago, the definition...
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22 Sept 2023
Organ Donation Week: Hayley's Story
This week is Organ Donation Week, a week-long campaign that takes place every year, with the aim of raising awareness about the ongoing need for organ donors. The more people that understand the...
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21 Sept 2023
Organ Donation Week: Natasha's Story
This week is Organ Donation Week, a week-long campaign that takes place every year, with the aim of raising awareness about the ongoing need for organ donors. The more people that understand the...
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20 Sept 2023
The Cost of Disability Benefits
This week the BBC reported that the annual bill for Personal Independence Payments (PIP) - a form of disability benefit - could soar over the next decade to £10.5 billion, an increase of 75% from...
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