An excerpt from Patients First: How to Save the NHS by Lord Turnberg. Click on the cover to learn more The whole edifice of the NHS heavily depends on how we care for people in the community. Social care – provided in care homes and at home – overlaps with…
Train Your Brain to Beat Chronic Pain
An excerpt from the acclaimed book - Master Your Chronic Pain: A Practical Guide - by Dr Nicola Sherlock Click on the cover to learn more Train Your Brain to Beat Chronic Pain: Learn how to Work with your Thoughts and Manage the Stories in your Mind We have talked…
Building Information Modelling (BIM)
Taken from: Click on the cover to learn more Building Information Modelling, or BIM for short, has been heralded as the future of the building industry. One day, it is hoped all construction schemes will be run on its platform. It is the bright new dawn of our bricks-and-mortar industry.…
CHAPTER 1: THE ENVY OF THE WORLD?
An excerpt from: Click on the cover to learn more One of the reasons the population is proud to be British is possession of the NHS. The way in which it was set up to provide health care without any restrictions on the ability to pay remains a concept that…
A Value-Based Pricing Example
By Shaun Jardine Clients like choice and don’t always choose the cheapest option I worked with an employment lawyer for a large Midlands firm that had a commercial client who wanted some employment contracts. The options which the employment lawyer gave the client were: I can send you some template…
How do I know if a friend or family member has an alcohol problem?
* You may be reading this not for yourself, but because you have concerns about a member of the family, a friend, or another loved one. It may well be alcohol is not just one of the problems in any given life, it could well be that the problem in…
Chronic Ankle Pain and The Brain’s Pain Volume
* A physiotherapy colleague of mine was doing some cross-country running in a local forest. He was running alone but had his new dog with him. He tripped on a branch and fell badly. Immediately, he felt pain in his ankle and knew he had injured himself, but fortunately, the…
Cancerous Moles and Melanoma
July 13th 2020 I had an appointment at the LRI today to get feedback on the biopsy of the removed mole. I was taken to the LRI by Catherine, and I remember wondering what might come my way and what the consequences could be. I had no real idea what…
Who was Marcus Sedgwick?
Marcus Sedgwick was an award-winning British writer who passed away in November 2022 in France. Writing in YA, Science Fiction, and Non-Fiction genres (amongst others), he burst onto the scene with Floodland (which won the 2001 Branford Boase Award) and also achieved acclaim with The Foreshadowing, She Is Not Invisible,…
Athletes’ Mental Health
From Chapter 5 of... Managing stress, fear, and anxiety Stress, fear, and anxiety are terms that are often used interchangeably, and which can have similar impacts on your body, but there are differences that are worth understanding. Figuring out which ones you are experiencing will help you deal with them…