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Archive for December 2022
The Autumn Statement and social care – relief or more worry?
Dr Ruth Owen OBE is Chief Executive of disability charity Leonard Cheshire. Here she reflects on the Autumn Statement and asks whether it brought much-needed relief for the social care sector and for disabled people. Have disabled people faced a more anxious wait for a budget announcement in recent memory? It depends who you ask,…
Read MoreStriking for the wellbeing of all: Why the nurses strikes are about more than just pay
Holly Johnston is an NHS nurse and a member of grassroots organisation NHS Workers Say NO. In February they joined with over 50 other organisations to form the alliance SOS NHS to defend the NHS from further cuts. Here she outlines why nurses have taken the last resort and voted to strike. The RCN ballot…
Read MoreWaiting on the waiting list, but what for?
Saoirse Mallorie, Senior Analyst at The King’s Fund, reflects on the current NHS elective waiting list and deduces who is really waiting for what. The current waiting list in England makes for grim reading – in September 2022 it was more than 7 million1, up by 1.2 million since September last year, and 2.6 million…
Read MoreTechnology and the human touch
Our reliance on technology in everyday life is an accepted fact and the last two years have firmly underlined this. Thanks to digital technology, we were able to access the goods and services we rely on, without having to leave home during a pandemic. However, with this reliance comes a responsibility for organisations to keep…
Read MoreLiverpool’s arts scene: a COVID-19 life support network
The arts and culture sector can play a major role in improving mental health outcomes if properly integrated into public health strategy, argue Josie Billington, Ekaterina Balabanova and Joanne Worsley from the University of Liverpool. The COVID-19 pandemic has brought into sharp focus the role and value of arts and culture in enhancing wellbeing. In…
Read MoreWe’ve built Florence to be the backbone of support, with the goal of fixing the broken NHS and Social Care staffing model for good
Dr. Charles Armitage, Co-Founder and CEO at Florence, a platform connecting care providers in need of staff with nurses, care assistants and support workers, on the role that Florence plays in supporting the workforce. For too long, the UK’s under-funded, over-stretched system has pushed more NHS and social care professionals to leave than to stay,…
Read MoreDocument scanners helping the public sector in difficult times
Delivering high standards of public services, during times of unprecedented budgetary cuts is not an easy task and recent economic forecasts further compound this challenge. Jarek Solinski, Product Marketing Manager for Canon imageFORMULA document scanners, shares his views on how investment in scanners can help tackling both – spend control without compromising the level of…
Read MoreWhy degree apprenticeships should be a major consideration for any business during this time of major uncertainty
Polly Pick, Director of Business Engagement at University of Gloucestershire, looks at the importance of degree apprenticeships for businesses during this time of turbulence, what they mean for employees, and the value they bring to businesses. With the cost-of-living crisis dominating our headlines, it is becoming more and more prudent for businesses to find cost-effective…
Read MoreWhy risk it? How the public sector can level up
With signs of a recession on the horizon, and Jeremy Hunt announcing £28bn in public sector spending cuts in his Autumn Statement, Thomas Osborne IRMCert, risk management specialist at Norfolk County Council, with experience working in central and local government, explains why the risks facing the public sector are real. I began my risk management…
Read MoreHow COVID-19 introduced new ways of working
John Glover, Kahootz Sales & Marketing Director, highlights how cloud collaboration software helped the National Health Service and UK government departments to work together better, with their key stakeholders, during the pandemic. The one defining characteristic of COVID-19 was the incredible speed and resultant global reach of the virus. From the first alerts in December…
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