Tag Archives: elderly
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Social care and COVID-19: crisis or opportunity?

May 6, 2020 Written by Christianity , Society

If a week is a long time in politics in normal times, then at the moment two years can feel like a geological epoch! In January 2018, we welcomed the explicit inclusion of social care into the name of the former Department of Health, making […]

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Happy Birthday NHS: Let’s not let a national good become a national god

July 5, 2018 Written by Events , Medical Practice , Society

Today (5 July 2018) marks seventy years since the world’s first, free-at-the-point of delivery, universal access, national healthcare system was launched. Britain’s National Health Service (NHS) has become so much a part of the fabric of British life and culture in those seven decades that […]

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How to live longer, healthier and happier

June 18, 2018 Written by Humanity , Personal Health

It would be hard to have missed some of the recent glut of news articles on the importance of physical activity for health and wellbeing.  The latest official government press release this week, from Public Health England in partnership with the Royal College of General […]

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Brilliant Resources to help Christians engage with the General Election on 8 June

May 18, 2017 Written by Christianity , Society

On 8 June the UK goes to the polls for the general election. Whoever assumes power will have a profound influence in shaping public policy in matters which affect us, our families, churches, patients and colleagues. Some claim that politics and religion should not mix […]

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Britain’s growing elderly population – a massive challenge

March 16, 2013 Written by End of Life

The UK is ‘woefully under-prepared for the social and economic challenges presented by an ageing society, a House of Lords committee has warned this week. The committee predicts ‘a series of crises’ in public service provision and says that big changes in pensions, health care […]