Interviews

  • Tackling football’s inconvenient truth

    Football’s alleged culture of bungs and backhanders was thrown under the floodlights in September – culminating in the sacking
 of England manager Sam Allardyce. In the same month as the Telegraph’s exposé of under the table deals, came another revelation to unsettle the custodians of the game. The University of Stirling delivered the first piece [...]

  • Making the case for cannabis in rehab

    NRT: What are the headline findings from the report for people working with brain and spinal injury clients? MB: There is now good evidence to show 
that cannabis, including the non-psychoactive component CBD, can help to treat chronic pain – such as that experienced post spinal
or brain injury – spasticity, nausea and vomiting and anxiety.
We also [...]

  • Where next for rehabilitation?

    In April 2013, in the midst of widespread changes in the NHS, NHS England announced a large number of national clinical director (NCD) posts, including the appointment of
Dr Etherington as NCD for rehabilitation and recovering in the community. Etherington,
who currently serves as director of defence rehabilitation and a consultant in rheumatology and rehabilitation medicine at [...]

  • Tragedy exposes mental health cover-up

    A knock on the door one sunny afternoon in 2008 changed Joanna Lane’s
 life forever.