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14/06/2021
Time to care - 14 June 2021
Last week was Carers Week, an annual campaign to highlight the challenges facing the UK’s 6.5 million unpaid carers and recognise the extraordinary contribution they make. This year’s theme was to make caring visible and valued.
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17/05/2021
Mental health awareness at work – 17 May 2021
We’ve all had to make a lot of adjustments throughout the pandemic. Today, as restrictions are further relaxed, a whole new raft of uncertainty begins. This understandably causes a lot of stress.
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26/04/2021
Sustaining life on Earth – 26 April 2021
Thursday 22 April was Earth Day, a global initiative to raise awareness about the environment and inspire people to save and protect it. We took the opportunity to look at the UN’s 17 sustainable development goals through a governance lens and ask what it will take to achieve them.
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15/03/2021
Relentless time – 22 March 2021
Tomorrow marks the anniversary of the first national lockdown in the UK. It brings the curtain down on the most extraordinary year in most of our lifetimes – a year in which it felt as though time stood still.
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18/01/2021
Unity and hope - 18 January 2021
On Wednesday this week the world watched as Joe Biden was sworn in as the 46th President of the United States. We listened with relief as he promised to ‘press forward with speed and urgency for we have much to do in this winter of peril and significant possibility. Much to do, much to heal, much to restore, much to build and much to gain.’
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22/05/2020
GGI Newsletter - 22 May 2020
Welcome to GGI’s latest weekly summary of briefings, knowledge-sharing and commentary. This is Mental Health Awareness Week. In our daily bulletins, we marked the occasion by exploring the concept of kindness. With estimates suggesting that up to 500,000 more people will experience mental health issues due to COVID-19, on Thursday we looked at the current state of severe mental illness in the UK and asked how it would be affected by the pandemic.
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27/03/2020
GGI Newsletter - 27 March 2020
At the end of an extraordinary first week of lockdown in the UK, we join the nation in thanking front-line health workers for their service. The work of NHS boards has never been more important and our efforts to support them continue. This week we began a series of daily bulletins offering practical advice drawn from the deep experience gained by the GGI team over many years – and informed by the conversations we are having with NHS leaders throughout the COVID-19 crisis.
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