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Waitrose, John Lewis and Vitality team up with Olympic heroes to help improve customers’ health and wellbeing as lockdown eases

Stuart Mitchell

Waitrose, John Lewis and health and life insurer Vitality has launched a series of free virtual workshops focused on health and wellbeing, exclusively for myWaitrose and myJohn Lewis members. The programme has been created to help address some of the undesirable “side effects” of lockdown including poor posture from lengthy spells of home working, disturbed sleep or unhealthy eating habits. From this week, the retailers’ members are being invited to book onto a range of free live classes, including: Talks from in-house Waitrose nutritionists on making healthier food choices and…

Summer Will Come Creates A Movement Of Hope To Raise Funds For The Covid-19 Solidarity Response Fund For The World Health Organisation

Stuart Mitchell

Newly formed charitable initiative, Summer Will Come launches campaign to spread positivity whilst raising money for the global COVID-19 response through a range of uniquely designed T-shirts. 100% of profits from every purchase will be donated to the COVID-19 Solidarity Response Fund for the World Health Organisation, powered by the United Nations Foundation.  As the pandemic has set in, we have seen the world divided; globalism giving way to nationalism, and cooperation to competition. But diseases don’t respect borders and the pandemic is affecting communities all over the world. We…

The National LGBT Bar Is Proud to Present GLMA: Health Professionals Advancing LGBTQ Equality With the Prestigious Frank Kameny Award

Stuart Mitchell

The National LGBT Bar Association presents GLMA: Health Professionals Advancing LGBTQ Equality with the Bar’s prestigious Frank Kameny Award. This honor is presented in recognition of GLMA’s nearly four decades of extraordinary contributions to the struggle for equality under the law, its pivotal work in providing a voice for LGBTQ people during the COVID-19 crisis, and the service of the organization’s membership of LGBTQ health professionals providing essential care to the nation.  GLMA is a national organization of LGBTQ health professionals committed to ensuring health equity for LGBTQ and all…

‘NEXT Coalition’ of Leading U.S. Engineering and Construction Firms Challenges Industry to Enhance Health, Safety Amid COVID-19 Pandemic

Stuart Mitchell

While the COVID-19 pandemic has forced shutdowns of many global businesses, a coalition of leading critical infrastructure and construction companies has banded together to launch the “NEXT Coalition” to promote and share industry safety best practices. Black & Veatch, DPR Construction, Haskell and McCarthy Building Companies are leveraging their deep safety expertise and best practices in a campaign to ensure the well-being of crews and office team members facing complex challenges posed by the coronavirus outbreak. The coalition seeks to identify and advance processes and technologies most likely to bolster…

Walgreens Completes First Phase of Mental Health First Aid Training for Pharmacists Focused on Health Outcomes

Stuart Mitchell

With a sharply rising need for mental health resources since the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, Walgreens has announced it has completed its first phase of training in Mental Health First Aid, administered by the National Council for Behavioral Health, for all of the company’s health outcomes pharmacists. The training initiative was first announced last May in conjunction with Mental Health Month in the U.S. Mental Health First Aid trains participants in mental health literacy, understanding risk factors and warning signs for mental health and addiction concerns and strategies for…