Objectives Our aim was to measure ambulance sickness absence rates over time, comparing ambulance services and investigate the predictability of rates for future forecasting. Setting All English ambulance services, UK. Design We used a time series design analysing published monthly National Health Service staff sickness rates by gender, age, job role and region, comparing the 10 regional ambulance…Continue Reading Trends, variations and prediction of staff sickness absence rates among NHS ambulance services in England: a time series study
Month: October 2021
Having options alters the attractiveness of familiar versus novel faces: Sex differences and similarities
Although online dating allows us to access a wider pool of romantic partners, choice could induce an ‘assessment mindset’, orienting us toward ‘optimal’ or alternative partners and undermining our willingness to commit or remain committed to someone. Contextual changes in judgements of facial attractiveness can shed light on this issue. We directly test this proposal by activating…Continue Reading Having options alters the attractiveness of familiar versus novel faces: Sex differences and similarities
Culture Wars in the Post-Soviet Space
In the last decade the term culture war has become hard to avoid. If it is not yet the buzzword of the first part of the twenty-first century, it soon will be. Culture wars seem to be around us everywhere. Each passing week brings some new mention of an outbreak in a public institution, civic space or political arena in some part of the globe….Continue Reading Culture Wars in the Post-Soviet Space
Want: Still the easiest giant to attack?
Beveridge claimed that ‘want’ was ‘in some ways the easiest [giant] to attack’ and yet 80 years after his report was published, poverty persists and indeed, has been increasing in recent years. In this article, we review both the key features of the Beveridge Report in relation to poverty and its implementation by the Labour government 1945–51, before…Continue Reading Want: Still the easiest giant to attack?