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AXA Health Tech and You, Thought Leadership #4: Personal Health Technology – What’s stopping You?
BY KATHY MASON, 2020HEALTH “Morning! And how are you today?” asked Katie the ever-cheerful Occupational Therapist as she bustled into Mum and Dad’s small living room, weighed down by her large computer bag. Like many people with chronic conditions both … Continue reading
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Health Tech and You Awards: Personal Health Technology: Looking Back and Moving Forward Part 3
The AXA PPP HT&Y Awards are built on the premise that success and progress rely on continuous innovation and this is reflected in the development of the award ethos and the categories. The importance of developing personal health tech in … Continue reading
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Health Tech and You Awards: Personal Health Technology: Looking Back and Moving Forward Part 2
As we look back over the past 10 years or so, we can also see that there are some things have not progressed as anticipated, and consider why that is. Back in the 1990’s the government and the NHS were … Continue reading
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Health Tech and You Awards: Personal Health Technology: Looking Back and Moving Forward
Since the early nineties the increase in digital capability has grown exponentially in our society, we now expect to interact with all manner of services digitally, indeed the government instructs public services to be ‘digital by default’[1]. We are without … Continue reading
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Childline – the past, the present and the future
This week Childline celebrated its 30th birthday with a blaze of publicity fronted by their founder and most prominent supporter and champion, Dame Esther Rantzen. Magazine and national and regional newspaper features about the tireless work of Dame Rantzen over … Continue reading
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Stress and Your Lifestyle
BY Carole Spiers, Founder of National Stress Awareness Day. Life should be exciting and pleasurable. How many times have you said that to yourself? Perhaps as you have waited in a traffic jam or opened all those bills and invoices … Continue reading
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Arthritis Research UK campaign asks you to ‘Share your Everyday’
BY ARTHRITIS UK This week, Arthritis Research UK has launched their ‘Share your Everyday’ campaign. Running for six weeks across October and November, the charity are encouraging people to get involved by sharing their experiences of living with arthritis. They … Continue reading
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NATIONAL CHOLESTEROL MONTH KICKS OFF THIS OCTOBER TO RAISE AWARENESS OF THE DANGERS OF HIGH CHOLESTEROL
BY HEART UK – THE CHOLESTEROL CHARITY October is HEART UK’s National Cholesterol Month and we have made it our mission to raise awareness of the dangers of high cholesterol and to raise money so that we can continue to … Continue reading
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Obesity – a big problem but a shared responsibility
Guest Blog by Robin Millar, Acting Chief Executive, 2020health Obesity is a complex issue – like health itself, it affects how we live our daily lives, the environment in which we live and work and how we feel about ourselves. In … Continue reading
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Tagged Department of Health, government, Obesity, Public Health, sugar tax
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The challenge remains: healthcare needs reform
Comment by Robin Millar, Acting Chief Executive, 2020health On a day of changing faces around the Cabinet table, the Prime Minister has retained Jeremy Hunt as Secretary of State for Health – and he has retained the challenge of reforming the NHS. The pressures … Continue reading
Posted in EU, Health and Wellbeing, Health reform, Jeremy Hunt, NHS, NHS England, NHS reforms, Public Health
Tagged Brexit, Health care, Jeremy Hunt, NHS, Obesity
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