In this blog, shared ahead of Angela Rippon’s Let’s Dance Movement on March 8, Dr Hussain Al-Zubaidi, GP with extended role in lifestyle medicine (GPwERLM) considers how NHS staff can integrate physical activity in their day-to-day lives. In the demanding environment of the NHS, asking staff to find extra time for exercise can feel like […]
In this blog shared for World Cancer Day, Zoe Merchant, AHP Clinical Lead for the Prehab4Cancer Programme and Jack Murphy, Prehab4Cancer Programme Manager for GM Active consider physical activity as a tool for supporting people to prepare for and recover from surgery and cancer treatment. Empowering healthcare professionals to promote physical activity to their patients […]
We are all aware the NHS is under significant pressure and faces many challenges. The Darzi Report outlined that a shift in focus was needed to meet the needs of the population in the 21st century. Embracing new technologies, using the wealth of data available to us to develop and target services to meet patient […]
The effective use of electronic patient records (EPR), in secondary care, to deliver clinical workflows represents a transformative step for our healthcare system. Hear from heart failure specialists about the national ambitions for heart disease and testing the standardisation of the heart failure workflow through EPR configuration. National context: Professor Simon Ray, National clinical director […]
Dr Layan Allawi – NHS England Sickle Cell and Thalassaemia Clinical Fellow – describes her experience of carrying the sickle cell trait and its relation to sickle cell disease. When I was young, I was told that I carried a gene of a blood condition called sickle cell disease. At the time, I didn’t really […]
For National Cholesterol Month, Helen Williams, National Clinical Director for Cardiovascular Disease Prevention, and Rani Khatib, National Speciality Advisor for Cardiovascular Disease Prevention, outline how managing cholesterol and improving lipid management is key to preventing cardiovascular disease. Cardiovascular disease (CVD) remains the leading cause of premature death in the UK. The government and NHS have set […]
This October, as we mark Black History Month and 77 years of the NHS, we take time to honour the contributions made by black and racially diverse communities to our mental health services, and to face, with honesty, the inequalities that persist within them. The fight against racial inequality and inequity in mental health services […]
