Nene Obibi-Mordi, Project Lead for NHS England and Improvement’s EyesWise 100 Voices campaign, shares her thoughts on the importance of collecting and using patient experiences when developing hospital eye services. EyesWise is an NHS project that aims to save sight and improve lives. Since April 2018, work has been underway with hospital eye services across […]

Senior GP Neel Basudev explains how all healthcare professionals can play a role in preventing Type 2 Diabetes. I have always believed the old adage that prevention is better than cure. My initial forays into the world of diabetes were based around type 2 diabetes prevention and I am still struck by how many people […]

With diabetes being a focus of the NHS Long Term Plan, diabetes care in the NHS continues to evolve at pace. The team has painstakingly been conscious of the need to ensure the correct type of diabetes is referred to in the appropriate policy area. For example, when it has come to the area of […]

For every 17 people reading this article, statistically one of us will be affected by a rare disease at some point in our lives. Put another way some seven per cent of the population in the UK, or roughly 3.5 million people, are living with one of the 6,000 rare diseases we currently know about […]

In 2019, WHO launched the first ever World Patient safety day, a global campaign seeking to raise awareness and bring people together in the pursuit of safer systems, safer culture and safer care for patients. It was great to have a day globally dedicated, where healthcare professionals, patients, service users, families and relatives came together […]

I began working in mental health nursing purely by chance. I was a young mum with a young baby, and first and foremost I needed to work to take care of us both. As luck – or destiny – had it, mental health was my first placement and I have never looked back. The first […]