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Don’t panic! Keep calm and help young people to benefit from social media

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In our final blog for Children’s Mental Health Week, Professor Neil Humphrey and Dr Margarita Panayiotou discuss mental health and social media. A causal link between young people’s use of digital technologies and their subsequent experience of mental health difficulties has not been proven. Social media can have both positive and negative effects on mental […]

Breaking the silence: The importance of student involvement in school mental health

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Hardly a day passes when adolescent mental health is not in the news. Dr Cathy Atkinson, Senior Lecturer in Education and Child Psychology at the Manchester Institute of Education, and Lucy Wilkinson, sixth-form student at Altrincham Grammar School for Girls, discuss their research into student-led mental health initiatives at AGGS, and suggest that this approach […]

Action on youth loneliness

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In this year’s Children’s Mental Health Week, Pamela Qualter, Professor of Education at the Manchester Institute of Education and principle investigator on the BBC Loneliness Experiment, would like people to take a moment to think about loneliness: how does it affect children’s wellbeing and how might we help them manage those lonely experiences successfully? Often, […]

A lonely new year: how can we prevent loneliness in older age?

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The post-Christmas lull is deemed to be a particularly lonely time for many individuals. As ‘Blue Monday’ fast approaches, Natalie Cotterell, PhD student in Social Statistics, discusses the challenges to successfully tackling loneliness. Approximately 14% of the UK population has reported that they often feel lonely, and this number has been found to rise to […]

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When is a plan not a plan? Reflections on the NHS Long Term Plan.

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Professor Kath Checkland and Dr Jon Hammond of the University’s Health Organisation, Policy and Economics unit (HOPE) share their thoughts on the Government’s new ‘Long-Term Plan’ for the NHS.  The new NHS Long Term Plan, and the investment associated with it, are welcome announcements but still fall short of most accepted definitions of ‘plan’ A full […]

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Understanding antibiotic resistance: A national antibiotic prescribing dashboard for policymakers

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Antibiotic resistance has been a major concern of policymakers for decades, with wide-ranging impacts upon the world’s food production, sanitation, hospital treatment, and population health systems. Here, Katie McCall of Greater Manchester Connected Health City (GM CHC) discusses how their newly launched antibiotic prescribing dashboard can help healthcare stakeholders and policymakers to understand the extent […]

Transforming the response to drug and alcohol dependent perpetrators of domestic abuse

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As the 16 Days of Activism against Gender-Based Violence Campaign has just started, David Gadd, Professor of Criminology (The University of Manchester), Juliet Henderson (King’s College London), Polly Radcliffe (King’s College London), Danielle Stephens-Lewis (University of Worcester), Amy Johnson(University of Worcester) and Gail Gilchrist (King’s College London) discuss the research they have been undertaking as […]

Openness and contact in egg and sperm donation: Can we think beyond the current policy model?

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Dr Leah Gilman, Research Associate, and Dr Petra Nordqvist, Senior Lecturer, work in Sociology at The University of Manchester and are members of the Morgan Centre for Research into Everyday Lives. In this blog, they explore the oversights of current donor conception policy. Within the current policy, donors give their consent for any children born […]

Commissioning for quality in community pharmacy: towards a better understanding of private sector providers of healthcare

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As a scheme has recently been implemented to incentivise quality in community pharmacy, Sally Jacobs and Ellen Schafheutle discuss the need for further research to inform the development of quality indicators. The role of the private sector in the NHS has expanded over the last 30 years to increase services and reduce costs. This has […]

Improving Sexual Health Awareness in Education

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As Sexual Health Awareness Week 2018 draws to a close, Dr Debbie Fallon blogs for us on the current state of sexual health issues, education, and services in the UK.  Sexual health awareness and education campaigns are of great importance, especially for young people who are navigating their independence for the first time. Rates of […]

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