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The last few months have seen a series of reports from the Care Quality Commission (CQC) (1) and the Equalities and Human Rights Commission (2) showing that care for the elderly in our hospitals, care homes and even in people's own homes is falling far short of even the most...
In many developed nations, pregnancy and childbirth are no longer widely considered hazardous for mother or infant in the way they were just a few generations ago. However, for the majority of the world's population this is not the case. Poverty, social attitudes and family structures, and a lack of...
Based on Kazuo Ishiguro's Booker nominated 2005 novel, this film features Keira Knightly, Carey Mulligan and Andrew Garfield as Ruth, Kathy and Tommy, three young people who spend their childhood at a seemingly idyllic English boarding school. However as they grow into young adults, they find that they have to...
These two books aim to challenge, encourage and enable readers to repond practically to the challenge of HIV and AIDS in their own communities and globally. The books take similar overall themes - what is HIV? How can churches and individual Christians respond to the needs for prevention, care and...
As Southern Cross, the country's biggest independent provider of care homes for the elderly collapsed, the 31,000 residents of its homes, their families and carers face a hugely uncertain future. All this because of a mixture of bad management and market speculation. But unlike the banks, which received billions in...
According to a recent report, (1) there is a global shortage of midwives that is having a significant negative impact on maternal and child health, setting back progress towards Millennium Development Goals 4 and 5. (2) In most parts of hte developing world, as few as 6% of women have...
Any willing provider? As we settle into a new decade, a new government, and a new and austere economic climate we face potentially radical change to society in general and to national healthcare provision in particular. The NHS reform bill (1) (2) is creating much heat (and maybe limited light at...
After noting recently the appalling level of maternal mortality in the developing world (1) some good news was welcome. This August came a long term meta-analysis of global maternal mortality statistics that showed a nearly 30% drop over the past two decades. (2) The UN annual report likewise found the...
New nurses' student staff worker Annie Leggett starts in October, and shares about herself: Annie, what is your professional background? I trained as a nurse in the late 70s at the Middlesex, staffed in three London hospitals, did oncology at the Royal Marsden, staffed in palliative care,...
This book was written from the author's experience of having a critically ill newborn and the years of isolation, hospital admissions and operations that followed. The spiritual wilderness and lack of spiritual support Philo experienced spurred her to write these simple meditations on caring for a critically or chronically ill...
