Directions for future policy development to help mitigate the impact the COVID-19 pandemic had on the 1.5 million people with learning disabilities in the UK.
Idoia Postigo, General Director of Bilbao Metropoli-30, writes for IPPO Cities on the emotional life of the city and calls for a more holistic urban planning. Idoia Postigo Living in an urban environment is one of the defining characteristics which unites many of the planet’s inhabitants at the present time. The city represents the daily environment in which an increasing proportion of people live each year. However, of the estimated 107 billion people who have existed in the history of mankind, only a few have lived in the city, with the urban...
Anna Torrens-Burton (Cardiff University School of Medicine), Silvia Goss, Eileen Sutton and colleagues examine the difficulties faced by people bereaved during the pandemic (April 2022) Background The COVID-19 pandemic has been a devastating, mass bereavement event characterised by high levels of disruption to end-of-life, grieving and coping processes. Quantitative evidence is emerging on the effects of the pandemic on grief outcomes, but rich qualitative evidence on the lived experiences of people bereaved during these times is lacking. Methods We analysed qualitative data from two independent UK-wide online surveys to describe the experiences...
Burnout, rigid scheduling and ever-growing pressures are pushing talented staff out, writes scrub nurse Sarah Ashford
