Share The Pressure – helping individuals reduce their risk of heart disease, stroke & dementia
04 Jun 2020
Share The Pressure will create a pilot training programme to facilitate shared decision making in the management of high blood pressure between nurses, pharmacists, and patients with hypertension. If you're a nurse or pharmacist who manages and advises patients with hypertension in primary care in England and Ireland, we'd love to hear from you.
Winning hearts and minds: smoking and mental health
28 Feb 2023
What is Winning Hearts and Minds: Winning Hearts and Minds is a partnership between C3 and The Burdett Trust to address smoking in mental health units in England. People with mental health conditions are much more likely than others to be smokers. Over 40% of people with a mental health condition smoke, compared to 14%. This puts them at higher risk of heart disease. Winning Hearts and Minds worked with mental health nurses to help them support their patients to stop smoking. Watch this 2-minute video to learn more about Winning Hearts and Minds. Access the toolkit and on-demand learning... Read More
COVID-19: Supporting nurses’ resilience
20 Dec 2021
With funding from The Burdett Trust for Nursing, the aim of Supporting nurses’ resilience has been to acknowledge and explore the challenges faced by many ethnic minorities nurses and healthcare assistants (HCAs) living and working in the London boroughs of Brent, Ealing, and Harrow especially during COVID-19. Read our report of findings and workplace recommendations.
Mental fitness
30 Sep 2020
How can we boost ourselves mentally as a way to prevent illness or build back up mental wellbeing? How can we add in these activities into our already stressful, overbooked lives?
Are three-letter acronyms (TLAs) harming health?
18 Jul 2019
As the debate continues about renaming non-communicable diseases (NCDs), C3's director asks: are three-letter acronyms (TLAs) harming health?
Guest post: Nurses health in the spotlight – new film encourages nurses towards healthier lifestyles
03 Jul 2019
C3's long-standing supporter and Empactis Director Employee Health, Dr Steve Boorman, shares his thoughts after attending the launch of our film about supporting nurses' health in collaboration with Human Story Theatre and Nice Tree Films.
Nursing diaspora: Addressing chronic diseases in Mubende, Uganda
21 May 2019
We’ve worked closely with the Uganda Diaspora Health Foundation on initiatives in both Uganda and the United Kingdom.
Should a health intervention fit routines or disrupt them?
24 May 2017
24 May marks the start of the Virgin Pulse Global Challenge, a 100 day journey to 'get the world moving'. Virgin Pulse's Andrea Maltman answers the question of whether a health intervention should fit routines or disrupt them using evidence from the GC. And, don't forget to wish C3 luck as we compete in the Global Challenge again this year!
Overcoming the challenges facing “healthy lives” interventions
02 May 2017
Chronic, non-communicable diseases pose a huge challenge for England’s National Health Service. But the NHS itself is overwhelmingly concerned with sickness rather than health. Instead, the levers of change in our everyday lives – the environment, organisations and individuals that shape our decisions on health – lie largely outside the medical world.
Salt: the forgotten killer
24 Mar 2017
When thinking of making healthy dietary changes, cutting out sugar, carbohydrates and red meat promptly springs to mind – but what about salt?