50 at 50: The Dean’s Symposium: Transformative inclusion: The future of healthcare
April 30, 2021
Celebrations of 50 years of Medicine and 30 years of Nursing at Nottingham are in full swing. The Dean’s Symposium on Transformative Inclusion was held on the 28 April and it was a fitting part of these events. The programme included three speakers talking about three very different but thought–provoking subjects. The virtual event began with a warm welcome from Professor Brigitte Scammell, Dean of Medicine and Head of School to …
50 at 50: Women in Medicine – Pain Inequality: A Healthcare Bias
March 12, 2021
Although we are fortunate in the UK to be protected by the NHS, we unfortunately still are plagued with implicit biases which can be detrimental to the beneficence of patients. Healthcare inequality is a broad term used to call attention to the way medicine is unjustly researched, practised, taught and highlighted to the public. The term ‘bias’ is used to refer implicit stereotypes, prejudices and raises …
