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My 98 year old grandmother has severe macular degeneration and, due to her appointments being cancelled during lockdown (necessary and unavoidable) speeding up her sight loss, now has about 2% vision. She raised five children by herself, one of whom lost their sight in one eye due to hereditary retinoblastoma. She has always been fiercely independent so losing her sight has been confining, debilitating and terrifying for her. Sight impairment and loss is a widespread issue with someone in the UK being told they are losing their sight every 6 minutes. This doesn’t just impact the individual but their family and friends too. My own grandmother does as much as she is able to but no longer lives alone since she is unable to live a normal life without assistance. Over 2 million people live with sight loss in the UK and around 340,000 of these are registered blind or partially sighted. Current figures suggest that 1 in 25 people living in the UK will be sight impaired by 2030. Making sure simple things like wheelie bins are not left in the middle of pavements can make a big difference to people who aren’t able to see them and wouldn’t expect to walk into an obstacle in the middle of a path. It allows them to feel a little safer when out and about, helps them feel more independent, and empowers them to feel like they are able to go out, all of which can reduce loneliness and social isolation. Well done RNIB for addressing such a ridiculous, ignorant post. #sightloss #accessibility #RNIB #disability #inclusion #edi

💪"KNOWLEDGE IS POWER" Happy to return to an in-person #IRSTaxForums, since 2019 we have been attending "virtual" It was great to see some colleagues from our Tax-Industry and meet new ones from Nationwide. #IRSTaxForums #IRSTaxPros #Taxupdates #Education #PrismaProfesionalServices

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 A new #ARCCNetwork article proposes flexibility in course formats as a key strategy to encourage enrollment and persistence post-pandemic and explores challenges associated with enrollment recovery. Find it here: https://lnkd.in/dvGC-iGR

🎤 'Nurse-shortage is more complex than just a mere figure'. When talking about #nurseshortage, it need to be understood in the context, such as the turning down of European student applicant due to low number of Nurse teachers in Europe. This because of problems at education facilities, insufficient placements at clinics, lower payscale compared with nurses in the clinic. For each 4 full time working nurse, there is 1 student nurse needed for keeping op the sucession ballance. For 10 students you need 1 teacher and for European context, this means that an absolute minimum of 100.000 #NurseTeachers need to be secured in positions. See example in the USA: https://shorturl.at/glAQ8 The institutional response to nurseshortage, to reqruite nurses from (far)abroad is not the substantial response to the problem. There is a need to of a intergrated European master plan, with all stakeholders in finding way out, to mee the short term crisis and a long term constructive response. 📢 It's heartening to witness the #EU2024be recognizing this issue as a priority in their program. https://lnkd.in/gYNCHCrw European Federation of Public Service Unions (EPSU) Adam Rogalewski European Commission Milka Sokolović Health First Europe World Health Summit Alessandro Stievano Decock Nico Cécile Dury Adriano Friganović #EU2024HU

ICYMI: Watch the replay of our WA Cares Basics: What Workers Need to Know webinar. Learn more about what long-term care includes, how caregiving responsibilities impact families and the workplace, who contributes to the fund, how exemptions work, how workers will meet contribution requirements (including a pathway for near-retirees) and more. Watch today: https://lnkd.in/gA9YCTXN

Today is St George's Day and to celebrate, here's a decision on some highly questionable request-handing in an enquiry sent to St George’s University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust in London. Nope, no other connection but you try doing this every day. Anyway, the applicant made a detailed request as part of a larger research project into NHS recruitment of people of various ethnicities. St George's initial response was that they would publish it in six months and refused using S22. Six months later (Nov 2022), the applicant returned asking where the data was. Ten months after that, in September 2023 they asked again, and it seems both times they received no answer. They then complained to the Commissioner. It's worth noting that the ICO says the initial follow-up should have been interpreted as an internal review request. The Commissioner took on the complaint and asked the Trust what the situation was now: because of complex reasons connected to the specific information systems being used, they say that it would be impossible to extract the data accurately without hundreds of hours of work. I don't think the decision explains the actual problem particularly well but the Trust and the applicant don't see eye to eye on whether the data is accessible. However, some issues are straightforward. The initial S22 refusal was flawed; it's not clear that what was intended for publication was what the applicant requested. Because of the long delay, the data has now been deleted and so the Commissioner cannot actually order the Trust to disclose it any longer. But bizarrely, the regulator nevertheless agrees that the ultimate S12 cost / time refusal was appropriate, albeit hopelessly out of time. This is a mess but while the Trust gets a bit of an earful from the Commissioner, some hint about why they're not more critical comes late in the decision: "There seems to have been a reluctance on both sides to accommodate the other’s position." It's a mess, and I can't help feeling that someone should have come in a lot earlier to lance this particular dragon. Oh come on, I'm trying here. https://lnkd.in/eP-5mCWC

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