Chronic illness can cripple our sense of psychological safety, yet there are ways to cope when life's storms return.

When healthcare answers are delayed, the psychological impact can be profound. Why prolonged waiting can feel threatening, and how compassionate communication can help patients.

A wealth of guidance is available on supporting clients with lived experience of disability - yet there is little available that focuses on understanding the first-hand experience of psychologists who...

Living with a chronic health condition (CHC) can involve sustained exposure to uncertainty, bodily threat and disruption to identity, relationships and anticipated life trajectories. Although a subst....

Living with a chronic health condition (CHC) can involve sustained exposure to uncertainty, bodily threat and disruption to identity, relationships and anticipated life trajectories. Although a subst....

Thousands of anti-racism protesters gathered in Glasgow on Saturday in response to violent anti-immigration disorder that broke out in the city on…

Protests across the city turned violent on Tuesday night – with some police officers acting as if it wasn’t safe to intervene

We call children “brave” when they are in the hospital, but do we silence their fear? It’s time to rethink hero narratives and support children’s emotional reality in care.

We call children “brave” when they are in the hospital, but do we silence their fear? It’s time to rethink hero narratives and support children’s emotional reality in care.

A few days of joviality will hardly change American foreign policy or guarantee Trump’s ever-erratic affections for long, says Guardian columnist Frances Ryan

Beyond the Medical Gaze: Practicing Psychologically Informed Healthcare, is the new book by Dr Liza Morton.

Healthcare policy and practice poorly address psychological well-being for patients or practitioners. We must move beyond the medical gaze towards a psychologically informed approach.

Healthcare policy and practice poorly address psychological well-being for patients or practitioners. We must move beyond the medical gaze towards a psychologically informed approach.

Healthcare policy and practice poorly address psychological well-being for patients or practitioners. We must move beyond the medical gaze towards a psychologically informed approach.

Exclusive: MPs say profit-making levels in England are ‘scandalous’ and call for cap on amount private companies can make from NHS Private firms providing services to the NHS including healthcare and consultancy have made £1.6bn in profits over the last two years, research reveals. The findings – on the basis of contracts worth £12bn – have prompted claims of “scandalous” profiteering, concern that the health service is being “taken for a ride” and calls for ministers to impose a cap on maximum profit levels. £2bn of the £12bn of contracts went to firms with owners based outside the UK. £533m of that £2bn went to companies owned by people living in tax havens such as Jersey and the Cayman Islands. Firms, especially those owned by private equity outfits, used £353m of their £12bn NHS income to pay interest on debts. Continue reading...

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Critics say brash, bombastic Fox News host out of his depth to guide US military through murky new Middle East conflict Brash and bellicose, he sounded more like a cartoon bully than a sombre statesman. “Death and destruction from the sky all day long,” Pete Hegseth, wearing a red, white and and blue tie and pocket square, bragged to reporters at the Pentagon near Washington. “This was never meant to be a fair fight, and it is not a fair fight. We are punching them while they’re down, which is exactly how it should be.” Hegseth, 45, a former Fox News TV host who now commands the world’s most powerful military, has this week become the face of Donald Trump’s war in Iran. That has set off for alarm bells for critics who warn that the Secretary of Defense – pointedly rebranded “Secretary of War” – has rapidly transformed the Pentagon into the staging ground for an ideological and religious crusade. Continue reading...

TBI pushed bloc on US plan for Palestine but internal disquiet on “taboo topic” Gaza grows

Liza Morton was the youngest child in the world to have a pacemaker. Now a psychologist, her book will resonate with anyone who feels challenged by the NHS

Beyond the Medical Gaze: Practicing Psychologically Informed Healthcare, is the new book by Dr Liza Morton.

The only question now is how it took this long for Labour’s greedy, reckless Prince of Darkness to meet his reckoning

A doctor from Nigeria tells what Martin Luther King Jr. taught him about health, Justice and inequality.

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