Emma Taylor

1 month ago | zupyak.com | David Craig |Emma Taylor |Trust Phama |Saumya Das

Mental health challenges, especially anxiety and depression, are becoming increasingly common in today’s fast-paced world. The World Health Organization (WHO) estimates that over 280 million people worldwide suffer from depression, and anxiety disorders affect even more. These aren’t just statistics — they represent real people, with real struggles, trying to navigate life while carrying an invisible weight.

Oct 23, 2024 | alzheimersresearchuk.org | Emma Taylor

Today 23rd October 2024, the UK’s Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA) has licensed a second drug that can slow down Alzheimer’s disease, called donanemab. This means that the MHRA have decided that donanemab is safe and effective to offer to people with Alzheimer’s in Great Britain. However donanemab has been provisionally rejected by the NHS’s decision-makers NICE. NICE’s decision compares the costs of offering the drug against benefits to the NHS.

Aug 13, 2024 | digitaltrade.blog.gov.uk | James McBride |Emma Taylor

Back in March we wrote about the challenge of creating a process to ensure the safe and responsible use of AI within DBT. This looked at establishing the groundwork for the AI governance process. In July we provided an update on our work. We detailed our support for the delivery of 2 tools underpinned by Large Language Models (LLMs). We also shared the new impact assessment that we’re using to help understand whether to make tools like this available outside of a trial.

Jul 25, 2024 | journals.sagepub.com | Emma Taylor

IntroductionMultiple studies show the continuing dominance of the privately educated in positions of influence in the UK (Green and Kynaston, 2019; The Sutton Trust and the Social Mobility Commission, 2019). Furthermore, striking research by Reeves et al. (2017) has clearly highlighted the stubbornly propulsive power of a group of nine elite schools1 where attendance is 94 times more likely to get you an entry in Who’s Who than if you were to have attended any other type of school.

Jun 20, 2024 | cps.scot | Emma Taylor

Please ensure you use a bag that has the label for P&CFS Scanning Team, Gyle Square, 1 South Gyle Crescent, Edinburgh, EH12 9EB. Please do not use a bag that references Bain Square and if you do find one with the old Bain Square address on it, please dispose of it accordingly. NSS have provided further information on the new scanning location and the submission and retrieval of prescriptions.