This article contains mentions of suicide, for immediate help please call the Samaritans on 116 123. A charity that provides mental health advice to UK healthcare workers is launching an online bereavement group for anyone who has lost a nurse colleague or family member to suicide. Doctors in Distress, which runs a range of online...
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Understaffing at a care home in Huddersfield has seen housekeeping staff ‘regularly’ asked to break from their cleaning responsibilities to assist residents with their meals. Aden House – which removed its nursing provision in October 2022 due to recruitment issues – has been kept in ‘special measures’ and rated ‘inadequate’ again following an inspection by...
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One in four people in England cite cost as the main reason for giving up smoking, a new study funded by Cancer Research UK has revealed. Researchers at University College London (UCL) found that health concerns were still a primary motive for over half of the people who want to stop smoking in England, but...
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People with a lower socioeconomic background were twice as likely to develop chronic pain following injury, a new study has found. In a systematic review of evidence, researchers from the University of Birmingham found that chronic pain was strongly associated with socioeconomic background. Other factors, such as a fear of movement, smoking and poorer support...
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