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Alison While

Emeritus Professor of Community Nursing, King's College London, Florence Nightingale Faculty of Nursing and Midwifery and Fellow of the QNI

The expectations of informal carers

‘The 2021 Census…found that there were 4.7 million unpaid carers in England and another 310 000 carers in Wales as of 21 March 2021. This equates to 8.9%, and 10.5% respectively of the usual...

District nursing workforce issues

‘To maintain the 2020 healthcare workforce density, the WHO (2023) has asserted that an additional 13.7 million healthcare workers will be needed through to 2030 within Organisation for Economic...

Spinning plates or perfect jigsaw?

‘…the success of integrated care will depend on workforce development so that practitioners, many of whom have worked and trained in silos, are able to contribute effectively to complex patient...

The changing face of ill health

‘COVID-19 pandemic… likely created a change in attitudes away from ‘the show must go on’ and fewer feelings of guilt.’ .

Taking sustainability seriously

‘The NHS, like other sectors, is a source of GHG emissions with the NHS emissions representing 4% of England's total carbon footprint and 40% of public sector emissions.’ .

Reflecting carefully upon what we read

‘Our evolutionary development has encouraged our brains to come to swift conclusions without much thinking to avoid immediate dangers, as, in the past, only hearsay and dramatic stories were the...

The challenge of longevity

‘Achieving healthy ageing in later life requires sufficient physical activity, a good diet, mental engagement and emotional wellbeing incorporated into daily life. This is easier for some people, as...

What is working and what isn't in healthcare?

Every year since I can remember there have been apocalyptic headlines declaring that the NHS is at breaking point or close to it. The current dispute with hospital doctors has added pressure to the...

Eat, drink and be merry…

‘According to the 2021 Health Survey for England (House of Commons, 2023) 63.8% of adults aged 18 years and over were estimated to be overweight or obese (up from the previous year at 63.3%) with...

The influenza and COVID-19 season approaches…

‘…the BA.2.86 variant is now more globally dispersed than other variants such as Eris and Fornax, which are of a similar age. This suggests that it is seeding through mass travel as well as an...

Maverick practitioners who do harm

‘The Shipman trial and inquiry challenged the deferential culture surrounding doctors and other authority figures; however, healthcare delivery is predicated upon trust between patients and their...

Antimicrobial resistance post-COVID-19 pandemic

‘…the Antimicrobial Resistance Collaborators (2022) estimated that 4.95 million deaths were associated with bacterial antimicrobial resistance in 2019, with 1.27 million deaths attributable to...

Breathing Good Air Matters for Everyone

‘Air quality impacts health throughout our lifespan, with age contributing to physiological susceptibility and those with pre-existing conditions being particularly at risk to its deleterious...

The pandemic has ended…

‘It has been found that social isolation was associated with mortality from all causes and an increased risk of dementia, that loneliness was associated with heart failure, and poor social...

Sleep and insomnia

‘Circadian rhythms reflect molecular oscillators in the brain, which interact with behavioural and environmental cycles promoting sleep during night time. However, environmental changes such as...

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