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Strengthening citizenship: A healthcare improvement priority

WEBWe propose that strengthening citizenship could help realise some of the substantial changes that are being called for in mainstream health policies. We highlight …

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Implicit bias in healthcare: clinical practice, research and decision

WEBBias is the evaluation of something or someone that can be positive or negative, and implicit or unconscious bias is when the person is unaware of their …

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‘Food for thought’: The importance of nutrition to patient care and …

WEBIn recent years, also termed by the World Health Organization as the ‘United Nations decade of action on nutrition’ (2016–2025), collective acknowledgement of the …

Category: Nutrition Go Health

The ethics and politics of addressing health inequalities

WEBSocial determinants of health are responsible for a large proportion of disease which disproportionately affects deprived population groups, resulting in striking …

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Virtues and values in medicine revisited: individual and global …

WEBIn response to the call from an international panel for ‘much needed rethinking’ about the goals and purposes of the education of healthcare professionals, …

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Lifestyle medicine: a cultural shift in medicine that can drive

WEBOur traditional medical mindset and healthcare culture are being severely challenged. In the face of novel infectious diseases, such as Coronavirus 2019 (COVID-19), along with …

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Artificial intelligence in healthcare: transforming the practice of

WEBArtificial intelligence (AI) is a powerful and disruptive area of computer science, with the potential to fundamentally transform the practice of medicine and the delivery of …

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A systems approach to healthcare: from thinking to practice

WEBIntroduction. Healthcare is the product of a complex adaptive system of people, equipment, processes, and institutions working together. Problems can arise with either deficiencies …

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The value of healthcare worker support strategies to enhance …

WEBIntroduction and aim The World Health Organization has recognised the impact of the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic on healthcare worker (HCW) mental health and wellbeing. …

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Health inequalities in practice – I'm a GP, what can I do

WEBKamila Hawthorne, chair of the Royal College of General Practioners Council, and Bola Owolabi, director of the National Healthcare Inequalities Improvement Programme, offer …

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Promoting innovation in healthcare RCP Journals

WEBThe challenge of innovating in healthcare. The NHS faces a number of key issues that need to be addressed if we are to successfully innovate: budgets are limited – the NHS has to …

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Physical activity and health in adolescence RCP Journals

WEBThe burden of physical inactivity and obesity. In England, only 21% of boys and 16% of girls meet minimum PA recommendations for their health 4 (Table 1), a trend that remains in …

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The process of clinical consultation is crucial to patient outcomes …

WEBThe study of clinical consultations. In modern healthcare, the clinical consultation is almost completely overlooked and ignored. We are under pressure to see more and more …

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Transforming health systems to reduce health inequalities

WEBA broad framing of inequalities highlighting how multiple different aspects of disadvantage lead to substantial differences in healthcare and health outcomes is …

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Infrastructure – the key to healthcare improvement

WEBInfrastructure is a key pillar supporting the fundamental aim of promoting improved standards of care and wellbeing for all patients, together with a good experience of the …

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Health inequalities, multimorbidity and primary care in Scotland

WEBScotland has an ageing population and the widest health inequalities in Western Europe. Multiple health conditions develop ∼10–15 years earlier in deprived areas than in …

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Why health anxiety needs to be recognised in hospital practice

WEBHealth anxiety, formerly part of hypochondriasis, but now reformulated as excessive concern about health and, by extension, illness, comprises a large proportion of …

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Malnutrition: causes and consequences RCP Journals

WEBMalnutrition is a common, under-recognised and undertreated condition in hospital patients. Disease-related malnutrition arises due to reduced dietary intake, malabsorption, …

Category: Nutrition Go Health

Social media: medical education's double-edged sword

WEBSocial media (SoMe) are platforms that enable users to create and share content, or participate in social networking. Medical education is rapidly moving into a post-COVID …

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