Severnside Integrated Urgent Care: Patient Representative Group

“Severnside Integrated Urgent care provides the people in Bristol, North Somerset and South Gloucestershire to access urgent primary care when their GP Practice is closed. The service is accessed through NHS111 and ensures that people needing medical care are seen by the right clinician in the right place at the right time. We have started … Continued

What is Transgender Awareness?

Transgender was the word seeing the second biggest rise in usage in the media during 2015. Transgender rights have become an urgent political issue. But the transgender community is very diverse and poorly understood after years of misgendering and stereotyping. What is Trans? – trans people from a social, biological, medical and historical viewpoint Legal … Continued

What is an Accessibility Audit?

The purpose of an Accessibility Audit is to establish how well a particular environment performs in terms of access and ease of use by a wide range of potential users, including people with disabilities and the visually impaired, and also to recommend improvements, where necessary. Organisations have a legal duty not to discriminate against anyone who … Continued

Mind You: Young Person Survey

Mind You is South Gloucestershire’s mental health and emotional wellbeing hub for young people. There to help you to look after your mental health, find out about mental health problems and where you can go in South Gloucestershire if you are struggling. Public Health team are keen to understand how well informed local young people … Continued

When actions speak louder than words, race in UK higher education.

Race and higher education hit a pivotal moment in 2018 as Black British student’s experiences made headlines across the UK. Mainstream and social media campaigns such as #MyRacistCampus reported Black and Minority Ethnic (BME) students’ everyday experiences of racism(s) on university campuses as users submitted their stories via Facebook and Twitter. The campaign supported prior … Continued

“Hair Apparent – A Voyage Around My Roots”

I grew up a mixed-race foster child in an all-White rural community in Yorkshire back in the 60s and 70s and being ‘high-visibility’ was something I had to learn how to handle alone. Not just my colour but my mass of tightly-curled hair also became a distinguishing feature; my White foster-mother struggled with it and … Continued