This week is International Men’s Health Week, and as a General Practice Nurse (GPN) I have found that the young male population can sometimes be a hard to reach group. I certainly found this to be the case in my practice, Castleton Health Centre in Rochdale, where a recent small audit I undertook showed that […]
On this 2021 ‘What matters to you day’, I ask all clinicians, system leaders and healthcare workers to consider how they can introduce one simple question into healthcare practice – “what matters to you?” People’s circumstances, values, and preferences really matter in the decision-making, design and delivery of their individual health and care. Despite over […]
Health inequalities is everybody’s business so it is crucial that everyone in society plays their part. The NHS is taking action by giving extra funding to local teams so that they can tackle issues that most impact the health of their communities. The Health Equalities Partnership (HEP) Programme funding will encourage systems to think creatively […]
Our volunteer service is exceptionally busy with hardly a minute to think and we’re always on the go. We like to think we’re innovative and have volunteers active in every corner of our hospitals, meeting and greeting, collecting patient feedback, engaging with older people and patients with dementia, providing holistic end of life care, helping […]
I’ve nearly finished my first year of a degree in Adult Nursing at Portsmouth University and am so glad I made this choice, though I could have gone down a very different route. When I first started my A levels I was thinking of a career in engineering, but as time went on I became […]
Volunteers’ Week is an opportunity to mark and celebrate the incredible gifts of time, care and skill that so many people have willingly made to support vulnerable people and NHS services across our country in our time of need. The last twelve months have been a year like no other and the achievements of volunteers […]
In 2017 NHS England published our first strategy “Allied Health Professions (AHPs) Into Action”, which identified the transformative potential of Allied Health Professions (AHPs) and provided a framework demonstrating how our workforce could support the NHS. As AHPs it set out our collective commitments and priorities to deliver significant impacts for patients, their carers, and […]
