Ashish Prabhu
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Transgender People More Likely To Be Self Employed
Research from Trinity Business School has revealed that people who are classed as transgender are more likely to opt to go in to self-employment, rather than face any forms of discrimination during the application process for different jobs. The study which was conducted by Klavs Ciprikis from the Economic and Social Research Institute, Damien Cassells from NUI Maynooth and Jenny Berrill from Trinity Business School, looked at a wide sample of transgender people who were based in the United States and discovered that cisgender men were more likely to want to work for themselves and perhaps start their own businesses than cisgender women.
By Ashish Prabhu3 days ago in Journal
UK Announces Plans To Reform Benefit System
The Conservative government is set to lay out plans in which it intends to reform the benefit system in the UK. Personal Independence Payments were introduced in as a replacement for the existing Disability Living Allowance system. The aim was to provide people of working age with a regular payment which would help to support people with the extra costs they may incur from having a long term disability or health conditions. The amount people received depended on how difficult they found it to complete everyday task or move around from place to place. The maximum amount someone could get per week was £184.30.
By Ashish Prabhu4 days ago in Journal
NHS Waiting Lists Continue To Fall As Staff Tackle Covid Backlog
Recently released statistics have illustrated that the number of patients waiting for NHS treatment has fallen for the fourth month in a row. This comes as part of a package of data which was released to find out how the Health System was coping after the pandemic and after all Covid restrictions were eased. The new monthly data from January prove that the number of patients waiting for appointments or procedures of any kind fell by just under 28, 000 compared with the previous month where the number of patients on waiting lists was 7.6 million. This ties in with the fact that there has been a total fall of just under 200, 000 since September last year. The number of patients waiting also fell by 43,053 in January (6.32m vs 6.37m in Dec) and is now 174,056 lower than in September (6.5m).
By Ashish Prabhuabout a month ago in Lifehack
NHS Execs More Diverse Than Ever Before
There are now more NHS staff from a black or minority ethnic background than at any point in it's history. That's according to an annual report which looked at race equality across the health service. The study which looked at data from 2023 analysed the different members of staff in senior positions across the health service and looked at how accurately they portrayed the representation of different cultures through out society. This helps to ensure that no one community or group of citizens is discriminated against because of where in the world they come from.
By Ashish Prabhu2 months ago in Lifehack
Women Less Likely Than Men To Believe They Can Get In To University
New research from the University Of Cologne has revealed that women are less likely to believe that they can get in to a good university. The study which was lead by Professor Marita Jacob in conjunction with Melinda Erdmann and Marcel Helbig, looked in to why secondary school girls were more likely to refrain from enrolment in to college or university.
By Ashish Prabhu2 months ago in Education
Study Reveals The Cost Of Poor Sleep
A report recently published by the globally renowned University College London has received the huge impact a lack of sleep has on both ourselves and the economy. We are all recommended to get at least seven hours sleep per night but there can be many reasons why we might not all be able to achieve this. Some of these include our work patterns, having too many worries in life or just having a stressful lifestyle and having certain medical conditions which cause us to develop Insomnia.
By Ashish Prabhu2 months ago in Journal
Quiz Developed To Help People In To The Health Service
Training to be a doctor or nurse is among the top five career preferences on offer to young people at the moment. That's according to a survey of around four thousand young people with one in ten of them saying that being a doctor was their top pick. The findings come as part of National Careers Week where the NHS has been the talk of the town. Thousands of secondary school children have been attending talks and watching videos in order to learn about the potential availability of a career in the NHS for them.
By Ashish Prabhu2 months ago in Journal
NHS Urges Young People To Catch Up On Missed MMR Vaccines
NHS England is urging young adults around the age of 19-25 to take up the opportunity of catching up on their missed MMR vaccine. Around 900, 000 people are being requested to book an appointment to have the Measles, Mumps and Rubella vaccine which they may have missed as part of an NHS catch up campaign.
By Ashish Prabhu2 months ago in Lifehack
Families Will Be Worse Off Despite Tax Cuts
In what is surely the last budget before an upcoming General Election, British Chancellor Of The Exchequer delivered a list of key measures in front of a packed House Of Commons which the current Conservative Government hopes to put in place in order to strengthen the economy and improve the lives of all citizens. There had been a lot of hype in the build up to his speech as to whether there would be many tax cuts or give aways which would help to sway the vote in favour of the Government. Although there were some attempts to make things easier for the lives of British citizens, a leading think tank deemed it too little to make up for the impact of previous tax increases and price rises.
By Ashish Prabhu2 months ago in Journal
World's Leading Social Media Site Suffers Global Outage
Users of the world's leading social media platform, Facebook were left locked out of their accounts on Tuesday 5th March. People were mysteriously logged out of their accounts and were unable to log back in after receiving messages such as ones stating they had input the wrong password when they clearly had typed in the right one or that there were technical issues with the site. The problem effected both the web site and the app so people were left feeling isolated as they were unable to stay in contact with their friends and family, some of whom may be in different parts of the world.
By Ashish Prabhu2 months ago in The Swamp
New Therapy Developed For Rare Graft Vs Host Disease
A new medicine has been developed to help cancer patients living with a rare disease which attacks the body's own organs following a life saving stem cell transplant. Belumosudil is a pioneering new treatment for chronic graft versus host disease. This develops in around a third of patients who have undergone stem cell treatment to try and cure them of any cancerous infection they may be suffering from. It has also been found useful for people who undergo bone marrow transplants or who suffer from such blood cancers like leukaemia and lymphoma.
By Ashish Prabhu2 months ago in Lifehack
NHS England Responds To Culture Review Of Ambulance Trusts
As a result of a report conducted by the National Guardians Office which looked at how the way listening to workers can help the way different ambulance trusts in England operate, a set of findings and corrective measures have been published in order to improve the situation. The report which was published in February 2023, called for an independent review of the culture which is used in the way the ambulance sector operates. The main findings of the report were that a negative impact on the ability workers have to speak up is drastically impacting worker well-being and patient safety. The NHS in England remains strongly committed to maintaining their ambition to protecting the various ambulance trusts all over the NHS.
By Ashish Prabhu3 months ago in Lifehack