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What if lived experience was viewed and utilised as a valuable asset?

August 30, 2021
Lucy Watts MBE
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What if we viewed lived experience as an asset? As an asset of professional, economic, political, financial and social value? “Lived experience” is a term often used in health and social care to denote the personal experience of people living…

Presenteeism, disabled people and people with long-term health conditions

July 28, 2021
Lucy Watts MBE
access, assistance dog, BLOG, Blog, chronic illness, depression, deterioration, disability, disability rights, disabled, employment, equality act, health, illness, life limiting, life threatening, pain, palliative care, rights, self-employment
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Today I read this article in the New Statesman, talking about presenteeism — when people work whilst sick, even when they shouldn’t be. The New Statesman article author (Harry Clarke-Ezzidio) takes this into consideration for the general population, but I wanted…