Expert Insights

Public policy in the UK has struggled to consistently promote evidence based ‘harm reduction’ approaches to managing drug use and its effects. As a result, the criminalising drug users often…

Communicating with sick employees is crucial in managing their absence and any return to work, but it is an area fraught with difficulties, as demonstrated by the recent case of…

They say that a camel is a horse designed by a committee. The term ‘designed by a committee’ has been frequently used to define processes produced as a result of…

The RCP Audit of Practice The Royal College of Physicians has carried out an audit of care for people who are at the end of their life in hospital trusts…

Quality, Esteem and Respect = Dignity The other week I blogged about dignity and meeting everyone’s basic human rights. As I looked further into this topic I realised there is…

As we age our eyesight deteriorates. Of people aged 75 and over, one in five are living with sight loss, and this is a problem that will continue to increase…

Hospitals and other health providers have launched a series of videos and pamphlets to help people with learning disability that need to attend appointments, undergo screening or who are affected…

With such a strong media focus on sugars recently, we may forget there are other nutrients that need to be reduced, because consuming too much has adverse health effects. What…