by Ian McMillan | Feb 11, 2025 | News, Rehabilitation, Service design, Technology
NHS staff have no option but to treat patients in ‘crumbling buildings and with out-of-date equipment’, according to NHS Confederation chief executive Matthew Taylor (pictured). Speaking today (11 February) as the NHS Confederation launched a report calling for...
by Ian McMillan | Feb 5, 2025 | Chronic Illnesses, On The Move, Paediatric
Physiotherapist and childhood obesity expert Grace O’Malley (pictured, courtesy of RCSI) took a prominent role when World Health Organisation (WHO) delegates on a fact-finding mission visited the Dublin-based Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland (RCSI) earlier this...
by Ian McMillan | Feb 5, 2025 | Careers, News, Service design, Women's Health
Women hold just one leadership post in four in the healthcare field, according to a team of US-based researchers whose paper was published today (5 February) in the open access journal BMJ Global Health. The paper’s lead author is Anna Kalbarczyk, who works at...
by Ian McMillan | Jan 31, 2025 | News, Paediatric, Rehabilitation, Service design
Paediatric physiotherapist Stephanie Wheen (pictured right) says she ‘lives and breathes’ Gympanzees – the charity she set up in south west England to provide ‘fun, fitness and friendship’ for children and young people with disabilities. In a recent announcement on...
by Ian McMillan | Jan 30, 2025 | News, Rehabilitation, Service design, Trauma & Orthopaedic
A Canada-based research team has found that patients who follow prehabilitation programmes before having major surgery fare better than their counterparts who do not. After conducting an analysis of clinical trials, the team published the results in paper appearing in...
