Covid-19 and health and social care
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Blog: Supporting young adults with cancer through Covid-19
While cancer is a physical illness, its impact on mental health can’t be underestimated - and this has never been truer than during the Covid-19 pandemic.
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Blog: PPE for healthcare staff during the pandemic
The advent of the pandemic created a significant increase in the requirement for personal protective equipment (PPE), in particular masks or respiratory protective...
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Blog: Covid-19 dementia education for care home workers
The Covid-19 crisis has had a disproportionate and devastating impact on care homes, including staff, residents and their families in the UK. Changes in care demands and...
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Blog: Researching treatments for Covid-19
It has been just over a year since the first cases of Covid-19 were confirmed in the UK, with over 2.5 million deaths worldwide at the time of writing. The turmoil,...
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Blog: Critical illness survivorship – challenges ahead
For many patients, the experience of being admitted to intensive care units is unexpected and traumatic. Patients and relatives are usually unable to prepare for the...
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Blog: Assessing potential Covid-19 vaccines
The need for an effective and safe vaccine has become a national - and indeed a global - priority, as the pandemic is affecting nearly all communities worldwide. The...
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News: Churchill Fellow takes on climb to raise funds for NHS
Churchill Fellow Robin Hanbury-Tenison (CF 1971) has climbed Cornwall’s highest summit in a bid to raise funds for the NHS - just five months after recovering from...
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Long read: Recommendations for tackling childhood obesity
The UK is the third fattest nation in Europe, according to a World Health Organization study of 53 nations published in 2018. Almost two-thirds of adults in the UK are...
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Covid-19 and health and social care: Fellows’ case studies
PageZafar Ahmad (above) is using 3D printing to create face shields for healthcare workers Churchill Fellows are taking action against Covid-19 in a multitude of crucial ar...
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Blog: Top tips for good hygiene during Covid-19
As an independent Chartered Environmental Health Practitioner (EHP), no day is ever the same for me. Chartered EHPs are trained as holistic practitioners in public...
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News: Life under lockdown uncovered through new website
First-person accounts of living through the current pandemic are being collected on a new online platform set up by Churchill Fellow Chloe Reeves (CF 2018).
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Blog: Supporting high-risk Covid-19 patients with diabetes
People with diabetes have an increased risk of both Covid-19 infection and poor outcomes following Covid-19 infection. This has resulted in a large proportion of the...
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Blog: Communicating with patients while wearing a face mask
One of the most effective ways of engaging with people from minority groups is by face-to-face contact – which can be difficult when wearing a face mask during the...
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Blog: Helping health workers and patients to communicate better
During the pandemic we have all learned how Covid-19 can leave people struggling to breathe, leading to panic, stress and anxiety. As the symptoms intensify, a patient...
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Blog: Using mobile learning technology to support carers during the pandemic
Our society relies on people who are willing to care. Never before have we all been made so aware of this. Covid-19 has transformed social care workers from ‘unskilled’...
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Covid-19 Action Fund winners: health and social care
PageThe Covid-19 Action Fund provides grants for Churchill Fellows to run projects combatting the effects of Covid-19 in all areas of society. Hundreds of pandemic projects...
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Blog: Healthcare lessons from previous crises
I cannot count the number of times I have heard a newsreader use the word ‘unprecedented’ recently. It is true, we have not been in times like these before, but health...
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Blog: Protecting nurses’ mental health during Covid-19
In the current context of the Covid-19 outbreak, there is an urgent need to recognise the unprecedented situations in which nurses are working on a daily basis, and to...
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Blog: Challenges facing care homes during lockdown
Churchill Fellow Kay Jodrell works in a care home in Torquay and shares the challenges facing residents with dementia during lockdown.
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News: Celebrating International Nurses Day 2020
News | 12 May 2020 |Today marks International Nurses Day and this year is the World Health Organization’s Year of the Nurse and Midwife, marking the 200th anniversary of the birth of...
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Blog: Supporting care homes during Covid-19
The Covid-19 pandemic raises a new set of challenges for care home residents, their families and the staff that look after them. Care homes will need to rapidly adapt to...