5 things every woman should know about menopause
If there is a word that most women would rather not hear being mentioned, it's the word "menopause". It is a word that refers to a body change in which the female reproductive system is permanently shut down. Interestingly, this condition does not only occur in humans...
Treat your body like you treat your business: Women & hormones
Over the past two decades, women have not only changed the landscape of the business community but have literally changed the way business is conducted. Yet even today, the one thing we still cant get a handle of is our hormones and our bodies in general. The modern...
Shocked Into Balance! (Sharon’s Story)
Let's face it, life happens! With so many twists and turns in life, maintaining a healthy work-life balance might seem nearly impossible. Many of us would want to believe that by being deliberate, we can change the course of our lives right away. The basic fact is...
Demystifying “high care” vs “high cost”
Women who try to prioritise renewal have their own set of challenges, including using money worries to procrastinate, or not following through with planned acts. So, why is self-nurturing so challenging for us? The truth is, taking time for self-care is one of the...
Self-Care Minus the Guilt!
It's no secret that far too many women - especially women in business - feel too exhausted and overwhelmed to take time for acts of self-care. Even though chronic stress can harm relationships, health, and bottom lines, it doesn't get prioritised. If acts of renewal...
Self-Love And Owning Your Story
SELF-LOVE, SELF-CARE, SELF-AWARENESS So given that introduction, I am sure you’ve guessed that this month at Women In Healthcare, it is all about loving yourself. On my journey to discovering self, I realised that self-respect, self-worth and self-love, all start...
A passion for diversity
You want to have an impact. You want to make a difference. To do that, you have to open your heart and mind beyond what is familiar, and be curious about what is different. This goes beyond just networking. It's about what you do within your business too. So why...
Diversity in the workplace – advice for new managers in healthcare
Inclusion is not about changing people's values, nor confronting religious beliefs. Fundamentally inclusion is about valuing and celebrating difference. At its heart, inclusion aims to create a safe workplace that is built on trust and is free from discrimination. So,...
Your Mind Matters – The Power of Mental Health
Mental health is something all of us want for ourselves, whether we know it by name or not. There are no easy answers here - mental fitness is the awkward stepchild you sent away to the state hospital in the country and visited once a year. What many people don't...
“App” your way to good mental health – the power of technology
To date worldwide, over 163 million COVID-19 cases have been reported, and countless other people have been negatively impacted both financially, and emotionally. On the other end of the spectrum, healthcare frontline workers have had an uphill task in providing for...
Leadership lessons from the frontline: a healthworkers pandemic story
One day I was walking out of my shift, and the next the world had completely tilted. We were going into national lockdown and I was required to be on standby. But very soon I found myself an almost permanent part of the hospital. At one time, for 3 full weeks, I...
Effective leadership through crisis and change
The demand for healthcare services continues to skyrocket as the ravages of the covid-19 continue to be felt across the healthcare sector. The effects of which have not spared the healthcare employees, i.e post-pandemic trauma, stress, and rising mental health issues....
Managing Your Stress During This Time of COVID-19
Do you feel tense and anxious at work? Is your personal life less than blissful? Has the challenge of keeping your head above water during lockdown kept you from managing your inevitable stress? With this sudden global pandemic that no-one saw coming, it has become...
Mental Health and Supporting Children and Adolescents Since the Coronavirus Pandemic
Mental Health and Supporting Children and Adolescents Since the Coronavirus Pandemic The sudden impact of the Coronavirus pandemic has changed all of our lives in various ways. The challenge of lockdown has resulted in social...
Women’s Depression: Symptoms And Causes
The word "depression" has been replicated, but everyone understands something of their own under this concept most often depression is simply called a bad mood or a blue that prevails in autumn or winter. Find out in this article the symptoms and causes of...
MediWeek Announce New Partnership With Women in Healthcare UK
The Medical Pathway at MediWeek 2020 is pleased to announce Women in Healthcare UK (WiH-UK) as a show partner. Running on the 17th & 18th March 2020 at the NEC, Birmingham the medical pathway is made up of the Medical Imaging Convention,...
9 Types Of People Who Never Succeed At Work
Experience and knowledge are rapidly losing their relevance to success in the workplace. Harvard economist David Deming studied workplace tasks from 1980 to the present day and found that those that emphasize social skills grew by a whopping 24%, while tasks requiring...
How To Break A Bad Habit—For Good
Have you ever tried to break a bad habit, only to give up in frustration? The problem isn’t that you’re weak or that the bad habit is too ingrained; in all likelihood, you just gave up too soon. Researchers at University College, London, found that it takes 66 days...
9 Things That Will Kill Your Career
There are so many things that can kill the careers of good, hard-working people. Honest mistakes often carry hard-hitting consequences. We usually only hear about the more egregious examples, such as when Yelp employee Talia Jane became an Internet sensation last...
5 Signs You’re Much Smarter Than Average
Intelligence, or IQ, isn’t what you know, but rather the pace at which you acquire new information. Longitudinal studies have shown that IQ is fixed at an early age, so you’re stuck with what you’ve got. While IQ is far from being the only thing that...
7 Core Beliefs Of Great Bosses
Great bosses change us for the better. They see more in us than we see in ourselves, and they help us learn to see it too. They dream big and show us all the great things we can accomplish. Great leadership can be a difficult thing to pin down and understand. You know...
7 Ways Managers Motivate and Demotivate Employees
Few things are as costly and disruptive as managers who kill morale. Demotivated employees underperform and then walk out the door at the first opportunity. The scariest thing is how prevalent this lack of motivation is. Gallup research shows that 70% of employees...
How Emotionally Intelligent People Handle Toxic People
Toxic people defy logic. Some are blissfully unaware of the negative impact that they have on those around them, and others seem to derive satisfaction from creating chaos and pushing other people’s buttons. Either way, they create unnecessary complexity, strife, and...
Why Women Are Smarter Than Men
Trying to compare intelligence and gender doesn't typically yield much in the way of productive discussion, but sometimes research comes along that's worth opening this particular can of worms. Decades of research show unequivocally that men and women are equal in...
Training the Brain
Consider the project manager who takes obsessive precautions to ensure her team doesn’t make any mistakes. At a meeting, she details tasks for each team member to accomplish the following week, and then decides to take care of half of them herself without telling a...
Why You Should Spend Your Money on Experiences, Not Things
When you work hard every single day and there’s only so much money left after your regular expenses, you have to make certain it’s well spent. Spend your limited funds on what science says will make you happy. The Paradox of Possessions A 20-year study conducted by...
4 Ways Sleeping Naked Makes You Healthier and Wealthier
What if I told you in just 10 seconds a day, you can sleep better, make more money, reduce stress, and lose weight? Sleeping naked can do all these things and more. All you have to do is take off your clothes. While there are countless strategies floating around out...
10 Ways To Beat Stress
Stress has a funny way of sneaking up on you when you least expect it, but how you respond is only half the battle. The secret to winning the war against stress lies in what you do when you aren’t working (and presumably aren’t stressed). While I have a hobby that I...
10 Signs You’re Burning Out (And How To Stop It)
Even the best jobs can lead to burnout. The harder you work and the more motivated you are to succeed, the easier it is to get in over your head. The prevalence of burnout is increasing as technology further blurs the line between work and home. New research from the...
Thanksiving
If we were to ask you what preparations you have made for thanksgiving, (November 22nd), many of you would reply puzzled, or somewhat lost. We all know of thanksgiving, whether it be through films or pop culture, we all know of it. But for those who don’t,...
Winter colds
Its mid-November. Sainsbury’s have released their annual Christmas ad, the light switching’s have begun and Christmas carols are already being played in Topshop. Everyone is in the festive spirit. Aside from all the festivities and fun, unfortunately with winter,...
Music and mental health
Music is more than just a pass time for a trip to school, or background shower music. The effects of music on our body are much stronger than many of us think. Whether you’re an ABBA lover, a Belieber. Whether you love EDM, or Whitney Houston Ballads, music can have a...
Are you surrering from seasonal depression?
As we step into the rawest part of the season, coughs, sneezes, sniffing and blocked noses are well amongst us. But asides from the physically illnesses, we must also remember to take extra care of our mental health. Seasonal depression is most common in winter, hence...
This winter, have a think about others…
As the festive season gets into swing, temperatures drop, hats and scarves come out and hot chocolates are thriving more than any other time of the year. But whilst we take full advantage of the winter festivities, we must also take a step back to think abut those who...
I-i-international s-s-stammering day
Unless you have one, a stammer can be very difficult to describe. I have been a stammerer for most of my young adult life, more recently however, has my speech began to worsen significantly. Whilst to some, I may sound fluent and articulate, it is only when I begin to...
WiH UK Weekly Live: Investment
As you may have seen, we launched another incredible aspect of our network a few weeks ago and unveiled our weekly live stream on Facebook! Each week, we promise to focus on different interesting, informative and relevant topics that are important to all women in...
#NHS70: Nurses and the early years.
As part of the #NHS70 campaign, Women in Healthcare UK are going to be publishing blogs on a regular basis that not only celebrate the organisation that changed the healthcare system in the UK in a massive way, but the hardworking, dedicated and inspiring people who...
We Are Our Brother’s…And Our Neighbour’s Keeper Too
By Molah Media Just over a week ago, news broke of the rescue of 13 siblings who had been held captive in a California home by their parents over a yet undisclosed number of years. The children ranged in age from 2 to 29 years old. It seems that on the day the news...
One Million Pads Campaign
At Women in Healthcare UK, we think it's so important to support initiatives that tackle issues outside of mainstream media. In line with this belief, we are incredibly proud and honoured to be supporting the 'Million Pads Campaign' , and incredibly campaign that is...
International Women’s Day
Over the past couple of months, our news outlets have been inundated with incredible stories of the bravery of women facing sexual assault, inequality and gender pay gap issues. Now, more than ever, women need to stand together, stand up and fight for gender parity....
WiH UK Weekly Live: Wellbeing
Last week, we launched another incredible aspect of our network and unveiled our weekly live stream on Facebook! Each week we will be focusing on different interesting and informative topics, and this week it was time to talk about wellbeing! The talk involved three...
January 2018 Newsletter
Women In Healthcare UK Newsletter: January 2018 by Molah Media The 4 Ps to a Happy 2018 Picture source – www.ebay.co.uk Welcome to the first newsletter of 2018! You’ve probably taken down the decorations already, but we must ask: did you all have a warm and...
2018: The Year the NHS turns 70.
2018 marks the 70th Birthday of one of Britain's greatest medical innovations, the NHS. After a frankly difficult decade since it's 60th Birthday in 2008, the NHS has helped us through the financial crisis, recent terror attacks, the Grenfell Tower tragedy and...
Kids and YouTube Culture.
We are living in a very different world to the one we lived in 10 years ago, and that's mainly as a direct result of technology. The emergence of a plethora of social media outlets that allow anyone with a smart phone or tablet to engage with the lives of those...
Let WiH UK make your 2018 AMAZING.
2018 is fast approaching, and we have a feeling that 2018 is going to be the year of Women in Healthcare! As we enter the New Year, we look forward to brand new experiences and adventures; it brings a lot of new possibilities with every new day, and we want to help...
The Dark Side of Social Media: Eating Disorders and Body Shaming.
Social media has become a day-to-day part of our lives. In the mornings, we scroll through Facebook, in the evenings we find ourselves scrawling through Twitter and Instagram to see what people have been doing with their days. Although social media gives people...
Women in Healthcare UK presents…
THE EDUCATING AFRICA INITIATIVE Women in Healthcare UK are proud to announce that in 2018, we will be launching the 'Educating Africa Initiative'. The Educating Africa Initiative will involve collecting second hand books from around the UK and setting up...
Africa Dementia Service: A Conversation with Morejoy Saineti.
At Women in Healthcare UK, we celebrate strong, inspiring and unsung heroic women all over the world. One of these women in Morejoy Saineti, the founder of 'Africa Dementia Service'. Morejoy is a dementia consultant specialist nurse with 34 years of experience as an...
World AIDS Day: A Conversation with Derek Polley.
December may mark the beginning of the Christmas period, but it also marks the start of an incredibly important awareness campaign. The 1st December is officially World AIDS Day, and it provides an opportunity for the world to demand that society sits up and...
November was… Lung Cancer Awareness Month
by Molah Media In the UK and around the world, every November is Lung Cancer Awareness Month. Lung cancer often gets overlooked so it’s probably true to say that most of us hadn’t heard this. Movember - where male health is recognised, we hear of. Breast Cancer...
Free Healthcare Start-Up Event: What happened.
On the 24th November 2017, we held another fantastic FREE Healthcare Start-Up Event in Leeds which was packed with incredible help, support, knowledge and inspiration for all attendees! We had an incredible turn out once again, and it was truly inspiring to see...
With Winter comes Cold Season!
At Women in Healthcare UK, we understand how easy it is to neglect your own health when you are focusing on the health of others. With the cold weather drawing in, with it comes the sniffles, the blocked noses, chesty coughs and shivers... Yes, Cold Season is upon us!...
November News from WiH UK
By Molah Media
How to start a Healthcare Business!
By Hannah Fieldhouse
‘Movember’… it’s more than just moustaches.
By Hannah Fieldhouse
The run up to Christmas: How to ensure it’s still the most wonderful time of the year.
By Hannah Fieldhouse
Sexual Assault, Social Media and Celebrities
By Hannah Fieldhouse
November: A New Month of Awareness
As the clocks turned back and the cold nights drew in, we all knew it was coming. The penultimate month of the year brings the beginning of festivities, but also a plethora of important awareness days and weeks that we should all be conscious of! October marked...
A Conversation with Dr Kathleen Thompson
By Molah Media
Multi-Tasking: It’s not as efficient as you might think!
By Hannah Fieldhouse