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Health and care services
Digital health wearables in active and healthy lifestyles of older people and carers
Shailey Minocha, a professor at The Open University discusses her recent research programme which investigated whether and how wearable activity…
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Health and care services
Family carers: Northern Ireland is lagging
agendaNi looks at the current push to support informal carers in Northern Ireland, a valuable resource to health and care…
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Health and care services
Improving health outcomes for older people via technology
Dr Joan Condell is lead investigator on a three-year transnational Interreg project ‘SENDoc’ (Smart sENsor Devices fOr rehabilitation and Connected…
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Health and care services
Governance questioned on care findings
The recent findings of a “horrific catalogue of inhuman and degrading treatment” at a Belfast care home also served to…
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Europe and Brexit
Brexit: Deal or No Deal?
Given the lack of progress in negotiations since March, the possibility of a ‘no deal’ Brexit is real, writes QUB’s…
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Europe and Brexit
Fall in EU workers threatens skills availability
A skills shortage in the Northern Ireland labour market is being exacerbated by the uncertainty around Brexit following a 26…
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Europe and Brexit
Trump, Brexit and Europe
Phil Hogan, European Commissioner for Agriculture and Rural Development reflects on the post-Brexit era of “populism, polarisation and political poison”…
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Europe and Brexit
Northern Ireland after Brexit: ready or not?
As the battle to avoid a chaotic exit intensifies, how ready is Northern Ireland for a future outside the EU?…
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Europe and Brexit
The implications of Brexit
The challenges of Brexit threaten to disrupt a whole suite of arrangements and presuppositions that have existed on the island…
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Issues
Digital transformation: The UK model
Kevin Cunnington took up the role of the UK’s Director General of the Government Digital Service (GDS) in 2016. On…
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