Expert Insights

The concept is fairly simple. Mother and father share caring (or the trials) in the early months of a child’s life. It should foster bonding and stronger families. Ultimately, perhaps,…

OK, hands up. How many of us have taken part in practice meetings and had the time dominated by finding more problems than we started with, or the meeting deteriorating…

Enhanced Service Scheme We’ve just received notification of this year’s Minor Surgery Enhanced Service Scheme to sign up to by the end of April. Part of the specification requires us…

NHS England has implemented one of the first components of its five year improvement plan, published in October 2014. This first step is the establishing of ‘vanguard sites’ which will…

For many people with intellectual disability, pica is a part of life that can challenge and threaten wellbeing. Why is it a feature? I met Charlie-Jo in the eighties when…

Employers have a duty of care to protect the health, safety and welfare at work of all their employees, including those undertaking lone work. They must take into account those…

Employers in our sector often enquire about giving references. Some are nervous about offering any confidential information, and are concerned that the information they provide to the prospective employer could…

For those who haven’t seen the 1953 film of the above title – and even I wasn’t old enough to see it on release – it is a horror film…