Disparities: in the dark (1)
Clinical Trial imbalances block healthcare for all
Disparities: in the dark (2)
Systemic discrimination of minority communities in Healthcare addressed
‘The NHS is the closest thing the English have to a religion’
A reality-check on the complexities of maintaining the NHS
Waiting
Issues around supporting our elderly community highlighted by the Pandemic
Inside the Obesity Crisis
Re-framing weight-management
My Body – My Decision?
Women’s rights and life-changing medical interventions
Accessibility Issues: turning the tables
Barriers to basic, everyday-life
Homelessness – an inside view
Healthcare perspectives around Homelessness
Tackling Menstruation Stigma
‘Natural’ bodily functions and Taboos
The complex mind
A myriad of challenges to individualised, holistic care surface once mental stability is compromised
A Bitter Pill
Young male suicide statistics triggered this joint exploration into the need for adequate support-systems to be in place – before crisis-points are reached
Love is Blinding: saving newborns’ sight
Global attitudes to sexual health under the microscope
Lost Identity
The cumulative impact being the prime-carer for others
An Appointment in Samarra
End of life care from literary and cultural perspectives
Can curing do more harm than good? – The danger in creating ‘normality’.
Thoughts on the definition of gender – normality as a spectrum
The corridors of death
Clinical encounters during a child’s journey with a life-limiting disability raises questions around the dissonance of the hospital environment
Life Sentences
A mother gives birth and returns to jail without her baby – what is gained from this arrangement?
The Arms of Isolation
Loneliness and anxiety around media coverage of NHS
Give me a Hand
Diverse quotes around the current healthcare profession in the public domain
Donation
Complexity and apathy around organ and whole-body donation
The Wait
The role of patient’s decisions around life-choices within palliative care
Loose Threads
This artwork represents the imagined life of a street worker – a composite character inspired by the work of the Bristol charity One25
The Reach
Questions around how certain cancers dominate the attention of the media, health services and government spending.
So you say I can’t do GCSE PE? Well now I’m a Paralympian.
A home visit brings insight into the role of family and societal attitudes around visual impairment
Trading One Vice For The Other
A gritty encounter with the viscous circle of addiction and sensitive reflection around prevention and shared responsibility
The Shadow of War
A call for increased clinical sensitivity to the impact of PTSD drawing on biographical material
Isolation
The necessity of patient-centred care within dementia
Flight
Humorous account of a daughter/carer leaving this role after much provocation
Postcodes: are they a prescribing destiny?
Exploring the notion of post-code lottery regarding oncology treatment drawing on patient responses
How Am I?
Prose inspired by meeting a distraught, terminally-ill mother who had just given birth
Diagnosis: Loneliness
The impact of loneliness on individual well-being – a student’s social experiment
A Real Person Too
A young addict unexpectedly finds understanding from the medical profession
Daytime Television
A stark domestic insight into the realities of supporting a loved one with acquired disability
Valerie
Narrative inspired by a profoundly disabled patient – insights around being a passive recipient of multiple interventions
Dealing with Death
Are doctors prepared and resilient when treatment is no longer relevant, in the case of a dying patient and what is the patient’s agenda?
Eat Less
The notion that obesity is a self-inflicted is scrutinized after a home visit.
Pencil Drawing of an Old Man
Institutionalization and de-personalization in hospital healthcare
Mark
A wheel-chair user’s lived experience is ignored by her GP while a man-to-man chat ensues with her companion
The Renal Transplant Ordeal
The complexities of a kidney transplant, a student’s concern regarding the objectification of the patient in the name of cutting-edge research
The monster under the bed
Undetected socio-emotional issues which may surface following discharge
Climate Transformation and Health Deterioration
Global health and socio-emotional impact on already burdened communities.
Helping Hands
Institutionalization and learned helplessness in hospital