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Writer Sarah Rodrigues children slumping on the sofa at home
Credit: Andrew Crowley
Lockdown 1” started well, exercise-wise. Everyone in my household set lofty goals. My 20-year-old daughter – home from university – downloaded the Couch to 5K app and started running in the spring sun. My 19-year-old, furloughed from her gap-year job, spent mornings practising keepy-uppies in the garden. (She intended to trial for her university football team in autumn and was determined to keep fit.) My 14-year-old daughter’s motivation was more dubious – images of washboard stomachs on social media. She found some “six-pack abs” routines and, once a day, took my exercise mat to her room to wriggle about on the floor. I also did a couple of online routines a day and my husband, missing his cycle commute, set off on early-morning bike rides along the Thames.
Donna Kinnair
The chief executive and general secretary of the Royal College of Nursing has been appointed as a non-executive director for the newly created NHS Race and Health Observatory.
Dame Donna Kinnair (pictured above) will sit on the board alongside 14 other members who together were described as being some of the world’s leading experts on the subject of health inequalities.
“This work is vitally important and I am honoured to contribute in any way I can
Donna Kinnair
Other members include Professor Sir Michael Marmot, who authored the landmark Marmot Review into health inequalities in 2010, which was updated in 2020, and Lord Victor Adebowale, former chief executive of the social care enterprise Turning Point and now chair of NHS Confederation.
Landmark reform of mental health laws
Major reform of Mental Health Act will empower individuals to have more control over their treatment and deliver on a key manifesto commitment.
From:
13 January 2021
Major reform of Mental Health Act will empower individuals to have more control over their treatment and deliver on a key manifesto commitment.
Reforms will deliver parity between mental and physical health services and put patients’ views at the centre of their care.
Plan will tackle mental health inequalities including disproportionate detention of people from black, Asian and minority ethnic (
BAME) communities, the use of the act to detain people with learning disabilities and autism, and improve care for patients within the criminal justice system.