Get back on track

Article Abstract:

The UK National Health Service loses around 50 million pounds sterling each year due to nurses' back injuries caused by lifting patients. Most health service employers have drawn up manual handling policies in line with Health and Safety Executive regulations, but experts estimate that 80,000 nurses still injure their backs each year. The continuing high rate of back injury is due to NHS trusts failure to invest time and money in implementing their policies, to lack of equipment for nurses in the community, and to self-sacrificial attitudes in nurses.

Injuries, Laws, regulations and rules, Occupational health and safety, Occupational safety and health, Causes of, Nurses, Backache, Back pain, Spine

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Unspeakable acts

Article Abstract:

There is increasing awareness that disabled people are more vulnerable to physical and sexual abuse than able-bodied people, and that such abuse often remains unreported. Physical disabilities or learning difficulties are often accompanied by communication difficulties, making it hard for the disabled to let other people know that they are being abused. When disabled people do report abuse, there is a tendency for them not to be believed. There is also a severe lack of services to help disabled people who have been abused.

Social aspects, Crimes against, Crimes against the person, Offenses against the person

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Darkness visible

Article Abstract:

The very nature of closed communities allows situations to arise which would not normally be tolerated in the outside world. People with learning difficulties can become easy targets for unnecessary violence in medical institutions because isolation prevents those in authority from discovering the extent of abuse. Psychiatric institutions should be encouraged to operate an open and positive strategy of involvement with local communities, preventing them from developing cultures of violence.

Care and treatment, Practice, Mental health

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