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I’ll lose my mental health care when I turn 18. Why?0
- BUSINESS
- August 8, 2019
Thomas says he was close to ending his life a few months ago. He has been receiving mental health care for five years, but he’s been told his treatment will stop on his 18th birthday. This is a common problem for young people in the UK. According to a leading expert, thousands of young people
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What is ‘healthy’ when you’re chronically ill?0
- HEALTH
- March 13, 2019
It has been almost eight years since I first started feeling unwell.This was a something that niggled me at first but would go on to engulf my life at the ripe age of 22.I’ve written about my diagnosis with Crohn’s Disease – a form of Inflammatory Bowel Disease; characterised as the long-term inflammation of the
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‘I told you I was ill’ – the importance of patient communication 0
- HEALTH
- February 17, 2019
When analyzing reviews of hospitals on Yelp, researchers from Penn Medicine found that the word most associated with negative reviews, including those rated at one-star, was ‘told’, which appeared almost 20 per cent of posts. Published in the Journal of General Internal Medicine, the study points to the value patients place on communication in health
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