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Jargon breeds jargon – if someone uses a term we don’t understand, the safer option is to repeat and reuse the term, to give the impression we know what we’re talking about.

It appears that regardless of policymakers’ support for a public health approach to youth violence and a focus on prevention, we are struggling to make it a reality.

There is much attention on the mental health issues affecting students. But how often do mental health services hear from university students themselves about their experiences?

The first step to reducing our environmental impact as individuals, members of institutions like the NHS, and as a country, is often understanding how large that impact is (and how much smaller it could be).

Clarity of purpose, knowledge sharing and providing psychological safety can improve trust and relationships for collaboration in primary care.

Kaleidoscope has given me the opportunity to act on a problem within health and care that has directly affected me. Stereotypes and assumptions about who has the right to be sick have a significant impact on the wellbeing of people who do not fit into neat boxes.

It’s pretty obvious these days that food is vital to health. What we eat affects our physical and mental health, our risk of disease, our weight, and, for millions of children around the world, whether they live to see their fifth birthday.

Anna Howells introduces 2100: A Health Odyssey, the science-fiction writing competition breathing life into the discussion about healthcare, past, present and future.

In 2018 the GMC commissioned me to carry out qualitative research aimed at understanding how doctors in senior leadership roles approached the goal of sustaining and building positive workplace cultures.

Two and a half years ago I joined Kaleidoscope. An unheard-of venture to most at that point (and to me). I was busy scootering around Myanmar finishing off an NHS Global Health Fellowship when I received an email from Rich Taunt saying he’d set up this organisation, and would I like to be a part of it?