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Thinking Allowed: Post Traumatic Stress; Managing Beds in the NHS

29/04/2015

Post Traumatic Stress; Managing Beds in the NHS

BBC Radio 4 - Thinking Allowed, Post Traumatic Stress; Managing Beds in the NHS

Post traumatic stress in combat veterans and managing beds in the NHS.

Laurie Taylor explores the relationship between masculinity, militarism and health, with a look at post traumatic stress in combat veterans. Plus managing beds in the NHS.

Post traumatic stress in male combat veterans: Laurie Taylor talks to Nick Caddick, Research Assistant at Loughborough University, and co-author of a study exploring the relationship between masculinity, militarism and mental health. Do conventional notions of male bravery and resilience impede soldiers' ability to access to support? They're joined by Anthony King, Professor in Sociology at the University of Exeter.


Also, managing beds in the NHS. Pressure on beds is an acute challenge to the health service.
Davina Allen, Professor of Healthcare Organisation at Cardiff University, discusses her study into bed utilisation from the point of view of UK hospital nurses. How is access to beds granted or denied and who decides?

Producer: Natalia Fernandez.

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