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Endometriosis
Endometriosis Awareness Month is upon us, Endometriosis UK aims to drive awareness, open conversations and encourage suffers to talk about this silent disease. Endometriosis affects 1 in 10 women and those assigned females at birth, yet society all too often considers it a taboo. What is Endometriosis? Endometriosis is a condition where tissue similar…
Read More5 Ways to Improve Your Patient Advocacy Skills
Five tips on how to be a good patient advocate. Advocacy is not always the easiest thing to do; sometimes, it is hard to understand why a patient may refuse a particular medication, management of their condition or procedure. You are aware of how much medical evidence is out there, you know the best…
Read MoreA year without hugging- Does it affect us and how?
Key Reasons We Need Physical Contact Regularly If there’s one thing a global pandemic can highlight, it’s the importance of physical touch and contact with others. The vast majority of you reading this article today will likely have spent the best part of the last year in and out of lockdowns, social distancing, in…
Read MoreMental Health Symptoms in health workers during the first peak if COVID-19
A study 1 published late in 2020, by Cambridge University Press explored the Mental health symptoms in a group of hospital workers after the first peak of the Covid-19 pandemic in the UK. The key findings are illustrated in this article. Background By September 2020, the coronavirus infection had claimed the lives of over 850…
Read MoreCatch those Zs to improve your health
As many of us must stay home to stay safe, it can be challenging to get a good night’s sleep during lockdown. Our natural routine might involve outside activities and exercise that tires us out, but now, those days are ‘on hold’, so if we are not tired, we cannot sleep. No problem, right? Well,…
Read MoreRetention Tips
The NHS contains around 2 million people in its workforce. This fraction of the population works together to take care of the healthcare needs of the other 65 million people who live and work in the UK. Considering the population’s ratio to healthcare workers, it can easily be imagined that a lot could go wrong.…
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