Nurses and Midwives for Inclusion Health: Partnership in Practice is a new professional interest group of nurse and midwife practitioners working in contexts where access to/uptake of health services is limited as a result of marginalisation, discrimination or lack of
“I’m really keen to focus not just on getting students through the door; it’s what happens when they’re at university that’s so crucial.”
Chris Skidmore, Member of Parliament for the marginal seat of Kingswood since 2010, was Minister of State for
There continues to be discussion, programmes and training about equality, diversity and inclusion. Without appropriate awareness of these matters and how to deliver solutions to issues some organisations will be at a disadvantage. In 2018 the CIPD said that People
The UK government seems to have put closing the gender pay gap firmly on the backburner, less than 3 years after the former Prime Minister Theresa May made gender pay gap reporting mandatory and despite the median pay gap only
“Even when you account for ethnicity, substance misuse, smoking – an out-of-home [situation] or housing instability leads to a low birth-weight baby.”
Being pregnant whilst homeless throws up a unique set of challenges. Pregnant women who become homeless have priority need
A new law will allow students in Oregon to take ‘mental health days’ – sick days for mental health reasons. It’s the first of its kind in the US. Not so long ago, the University of Bristol asked students to
Ryalla Duffy is a Romany Gypsy and has been all her life. She, her husband and their children struggled to settle in various locations in the South of England before settling in Lincolnshire. She’s now part of the Lincolnshire Gypsy
Barely a week goes by without Ofsted making headlines in the UK; such is the power and influence of the schools’ inspectorate. From September, Ofsted inspections will follow a new education inspection framework that focuses more on the curriculum, course
In June 2019, then Prime Minister Theresa May announced measures to urgently overhaul mental health laws in a bid to end mental health inequalities. This followed a review of the Mental Health Act and a meeting with mental health and
After the actor and activist Jameela Jamil mentioned her Ehlers-Danlos Syndrome in an Instagram comment in February and was later presented with an award by the Ehlers-Danlos Society for being a patient advocate, a lot of fans were left scratching