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Please consider signing this open letter to Victoria Atkins & Amanda Pritchard at NHS England expressing your dismay at their extraordinary decision to cut NHS Practitioner Health funding for hospital staff.

Please share widely 🙏

Letter here:

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Three weeks after removing our fees, our membership has increased by 20%.
Can you help us find more WRAC veterans?
We are thrilled to be welcoming back women who served.
New members can join via this link below:
wracassociation.org.uk/join/

We recently published a News Feature article on UK ex-Servicewomen, highlighting evidence from recent reports on female Veterans’ unique needs and experiences, and how they access support services.
If you haven't read it yet, head here - fimt-rc.org/news/20240306-…

📣New blog alert! Researchers at King's Centre for Military Health Research discuss their research study exploring ways to support women veterans with alcohol use using digital platforms.

♀ Recruitment is currently open to women veterans.
Contact [email protected].

Full blog here: centreformilitarywomensresearch.com/supporting-wom…

Still looking for participants to join us for our in person focus group in Exeter - refreshments will be privided and you will be reimbursed for your travel - get in touch with any questions or queries #research #ChronicPain #Devon

Please share widely! A great opportunity to work with us to shape the future of equalities research in the uniformed services.

#Veterans with #chronicpain based in and around Belfast, Northern Ireland we are looking for participants to join an in-person focus group on the 17th April from 12.00-14.00 for more information please email, DM or comment on this post

Navy veteran Joe Ousalice was sacked by the Royal Navy in 1993 for being bisexual due to a ban on LGBT officers serving in the armed forces.

The Prime Minister has since promised any victims of the ban compensation but Joe fears that because of his prostate cancer diagnosis he…

📢CALLING CARERS IN HE 📢

Marie-Pierre Moreau is looking for carers employed in UK higher education to take part in this survey👇
angliaruskin.onlinesurveys.ac.uk/national-carer… to get a better understanding of carers' experiences, and to suggest ways to better support them.

Please consider taking part!

Happy International Women's Day from all of us at the Centre for Military Women's Research! Please check out our IWD blog here:
centreformilitarywomensresearch.com/happy-internat…

#IWD2024 #InternationalWomensDay #CMWR Anglia Ruskin VFi Dr Lauren Godier-McBard Prof Matt Fossey Charlotte Herriott Claire Hooks Patricia Price + Caroline!

🔦 Author Spotlight: Dr Lauren Godier-McBard Co-Director of Centre for Military Women’s Research

📰Her #MentalHealth work has been picked up by the Guardian: theguardian.com/uk-news/2024/m…

📝 Read her article exploring Gender-related barriers to UK veteran MH Support: militaryhealth.bmj.com/content/168/1/…

Privileged to have contributed to this important piece:

Abused, raped, ignored: how ‘invisible’ female British military veterans are fighting back theguardian.com/uk-news/2024/m…

'I am tired of fighting for systematic change and being given table scraps'

Labour MP Jess Phillips reads the names of the women killed as a result of violence over the past year

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Non-UK Service personnel require specific improvements to support, according to new research funded by Forces in Mind Trust.

Full report - fim-trust.org/news-policy-it…

ARU

Pleased to be supporting this important piece of research for ex-servicewomen of the UK Armed Forces ARU #CMWR

The Centre for Military Women’s Research are looking for participants in their latest research. If you are an ex-service woman with physical health conditions/injuries you are eligible.

To be involved, please email [email protected]

#supportingthefrontline

Researchers from King's Centre for Military Health Research are looking for women who have served in the UK Armed Forces and consume alcohol to test a new digital platform that tracks alcohol use.

Please see below for information and to register: