"No society can legitimately call itself civilised if a sick person is denied medical aid because of a lack of means." "The NHS will last as long as there are folk left with faith to fight for it." Nye Bevan, 1948
INTRODUCTION
This week's CST activities page focuses on 'World Health Day', which falls on 7th April each year. It is also the 74th anniversary of the NHS on 5th July 2022.
The NHS is the biggest employer in the UK, with 1.5m staff members. Ask members if they have any family or friends who work or worked in the NHS. Or perhaps they did?
Discuss how the NHS had changed over recent years. Answers might include: - Increased life expectancy through new treatments. - Population growth and more demands on the NHS. - Increased specialisation within the service. - Changes in uniform (remember the starched hats that nurses were expected to wear, for no particular reason!). - Societal changes and different disease and injury profiles - reduced smoking, working down the pits is no more and safer occupations generally, including more blue and white collar roles.
- A, generally speaking, less fit population, with obesity on the increase. - Advances in treatment and care, including new technologies for earlier diagnosis and treatment. - Increased used of alcohol and drugs, leading to more pressure on A&E departments. - Increased knife and gun crime, rarely seen previously. - Sadly, abuse of NHS staff (a fairly new phenomenon). - Different status of NHS staff, improvements in pay, less vocational and more professional. (Matrons were expected not to marry!) - Some disappearing roles, e.g. Matron.
And of course, these last couple of years we have had the COVID-19 pandemic to contend with.
Discuss the ups and downsides of lockdown, wearing masks and the vaccination programme.
IDIOMS
Complete these well known phrases with members ...
- As fit as a FIDDLE
- Alive and KICKING
- Prevention is better than CURE
- Go under the KNIFE
- Under the WEATHER / DOCTOR
- A bitter pill to SWALLOW
- A frog in your THROAT
- Black and BLUE
- Break out in a cold SWEAT
- Catch your death of a COLD
- Feed a cold, starve a FEVER
- As sick as a DOG
- As white as a SHEET
- Green around the GILLS
- A taste of your own MEDICINE
- Rub salt in your WOUNDS
- As deaf as a POST
- As blind as a BAT
- Sick and TIRED
- Be on the MEND
- Back on your FEET
- An apple a day keeps the DOCTOR AWAY
- Just what the doctor ORDERED
- A clean bill of HEALTH
- Full of BEANS
- A new lease of LIFE
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hYeQUXXYvK0
FIRST SONG. 'Dry Bones', Delta Rhythm Boys
Ask members to sing and clap along.
QUIZ
Round 1. Human Body
1. What are the different blood types? (Has anyone given blood recently?) (Sweden has successfully implemented a scheme whereby blood donors are informed by text message if their blood has been used and for what purpose, which is a great motivation for people to become donors.)
2. When was the UKās first successful heart transplant operation?
3. What is the largest bone in your body?
4. Where is ... ? (A point for each)
Point to your thyroid gland Point to your patella
Point to your retina Point to your 'funny bone' Point to your diaphragm Point to your tympanic membrane
5. What is the organ that produces insulin?
6. What is it impossible to keep open when sneezing?
7. What are the five basic tastes?
8. What are the five senses?
9. What are you if you are Hirsute?
10. SONG. 'Stayin' Alive', The Bee Gees - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fa9n7GirhsI
Who is pictured here and what film is this song from?
ROUND 2. TV & Film
11. Name the fictional hospital in which the drama 'Casualty' is set?
12. Who played Matron in the 1972 'Carry On' movie?
13. Who starred in the 1965 film 'Doctor Zhivago'?
14. Which 1982 film was about a cross dressing male actor played by Dustin Hoffman starring in a daytime soap as Hospital Administrator Beverley Kimberley?
15. What was the sister in charge's name in the 1975 movie 'One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest'?
16. Who starred in the 1955 film 'Doctor At Sea'?
17. Who played the part of Dr. Kildare in the 1960s TV series?
18. Name this 'Star Trek' character and the actor who played him?
(Can anyone make the 'Vulcan Salute'?)
19. Name this TV doctor and the actor who played him?
20. SONG. 'M.A.S.H. Theme Song' - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WmLq87RU97w
What does 'M.A.S.H.' stand for?
ROUND 3. People
21. Who was the nurse who went to the Crimean War to nurse wounded soldiers? (She was born in 1820 - ten years before Britain had its first steam passenger railway.)
22. Name this Polish and naturalized-French physicist and chemist who conducted pioneering research on radioactivity and x-rays in the 1890s?
What is the UK charity named after her concerned with? And which flower is their symbol?
23. Name this French biologist, microbiologist, and chemist renowned for his discoveries of the principles of vaccination, microbial fermentation, and pasteurization (in 1881 he helped invent a vaccine for Anthrax)?
24. Name this Scottish physician and microbiologist, who discovered Penicillin in 1928?
25. Name this Austrian Neurologist who pioneered psychoanalysis in the treatment of mental illness in the 1920s?
26. Name this Welsh politician who founded the NHS in 1948?
27. Name this English doctor who pioneered IVF treatments in the 1980s?
28. Name this TV doctor?
29. What was the name of the Health Secretary who led us through the COVID-19 pandemic?
30. SONG. 'Bad Case Of Loving You (Doctor Doctor)', Robert Palmer - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DlPHmYtqSdA
What is a doctor who specialises in mental health called?
... heart care and treatment? ... cancer care and treatment? ... stomach and bowel care and treatment? ... skin care and treatment?
ROUND 4. Music
31. SONG 'Spoon Full Of Sugar', Mary Poppins - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ftxnr28LDXc
Complete the name of another song from this movie?
"SUPER.........................."
32. SONG. 'Fever', Peggy Lee - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=REryc1TpeY8
Above which temperature (degrees centigrade) do you have a fever?
33. SONG. 'When You're In Love With A Beautiful Woman', Dr Hook - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uVXVO_vF2Io What are the seven known health benefits of being in love? Have a guess.
34. 'Ain't Got No - I Got Life', Nina Simone - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L5jI9I03q8E Listen carefully. What is the only body organ that features in this song's lyrics?
35. 'The Clapping Song ', Shirley Ellis - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RyIOX3fsEIQ
Can anyone click their fingers? Go around the room.
(Clap along with the song. Do some of the moves....)
36. SONG. 'Every Breath You Take', The Police - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OMOGaugKpzs
What is the telephone number to call if you need an ambulance, or the police for that matter?
PRACTICAL ACTIVITIES
Just for fun ask members to do the following difficult or nearly impossible things with their various body parts. - Raise one eyebrow (like Mr. Spock in 'Star Trek') - Make a 'V' between your first two fingers and second two fingers (again like Mr. Spock) - Lick your elbow - Twitch your nose (like Samantha in 'Bewitched') - Wiggle your ears - Touch the tip of your nose with your tongue - Make a tube shape with your tongue - Tickle yourself (doesn't work unless somebody else does it for you!) - Try bending your middle finger and putting your hand on the table, with your middle finger touching your palm. Now try lifting your ring finger off the table. It's impossible! - Try putting your fist in your mouth (not too hard for some!) - Try 'writing' the number 6 with your right forefinger whilst making clockwise circles with your leg. It's impossible!
- Try rubbing your tummy in circles and patting your head at the same time
- Try humming a tune while holding your nose
Anyone got any tattoos, that they can show us?
Is anyone double-jointed?
Is anyone ambidextrous?
Does anyone go to a health related class or session?
Yoga, Aqua-aerobics, Zumba, Pilates etc
Discuss the health benefits of walking, jogging, cycling, swimming etc.
DO SOME EXERCISE TOGETHER
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q2Crgnrrojk
BEST DOCTOR DOCTOR JOKES
https://sites.google.com/site/funnyenglishjokes/Doctor-jokes/doctor-doctor-jokes
Nurse - Doctor, doctor! There's a man here who says he's turning invisible! Doctor - Tell him I can't see him. ------------------------------------------------------------- Patient - Doctor, doctor! I keep thinking I'm a pair of curtains. Doctor - Pull yourself together man! ------------------------------------------------------------- Patient - Doctor, doctor! I keep thinking I'm a dog. Doctor - Take a seat. Patient - I can't, I'm not allowed on the furniture. ------------------------------------------------------------- Patient - Doctor, doctor! I think I need glasses. Man - You certainly do, this is a pet shop. ------------------------------------------------------------- Patient - Doctor, doctor! My son has swallowed my pen, what should I do? Doctor - Use a pencil till I get there. ------------------------------------------------------------- Patient - Doctor doctor! I think I am a worm! Doctor - Well just wriggle onto the chair. ------------------------------------------------------------- Patient - Doctor, doctor Iām addicted to brake fluid. Doctor - Nonsense man, you can stop any time. ------------------------------------------------------------- Patient - Doctor doctor! I feel like a dog. Doctor - How long have you felt like this? Patient - Since I was a puppy. ------------------------------------------------------------- Patient - Doctor, doctor, I feel like a pack of cards. Doctor - I'll deal with you later. ------------------------------------------------------------- Patient - Doctor, doctor, I feel like a spoon. Doctor - Sit still and don't stir. ------------------------------------------------------------- Patient - Doctor, doctor, everyone keeps ignoring me. Doctor - Next please! ------------------------------------------------------------- Patient - Doctor, doctor, I feel like a bell. Doctor - Take these pills, and if they don't help, give me a ring. ------------------------------------------------------------- Patient - Doctor, doctor. Every time I drink a cup of tea, I get a pain in my eye. Doctor - Take the spoon out of the cup. ------------------------------------------------------------- Patient - Doctor, doctor, I can't get to sleep. Doctor - Sit on the edge of the bed and you'll soon drop off. -------------------------------------------------------------
ANSWERS
1. O-positive: 38 percent O-negative: 7 percent A-positive: 34 percent A-negative: 6 percent B-positive: 9 percent B-negative: 2 percent AB-positive: 3 percent AB-negative: 1 percent
2. 1979 (Papworth Hospital)
3. Femur
4. Thyroid gland - near Adam's apple Patella - Kneecap Retina - Eye 'Funny bone' - Elbow Diaphragm - (muscle wall between thorax and abdomen) Tympanic membrane - Eardrum
5. Pancreas
6. Eyes
7. Sweet, sour, bitter, salty and umami - pleasant savoury taste
8. Taste, sight, touch, smell and sound
9. Hairy
10. John Travolta / 'Saturday Night Fever'
11. Holby City
12. Hattie Jaques
13. Omar Sharif
14. 'Tootsie'
15. Nurse Ratched
16. Dirk Bogarde
17. Richard Chamberlain
18. Doctor Spock / Leonard Nimoy
19. Doc Martin / Martin Clunes
20. 'Mobile Army Surgical Hospital'
21. Florence Nightingale
22. Marie Curie / Cancer / Daffodil
23. Louis Pastuer
24. Alexander Fleming
25. Sigmund Freud
26. Nye Bevan
27. Robert Winston
28. Dr Hilary Jones
29. Matt Hancock
30. A Psychiatrist Cardiologist Oncologist Gastroenterologist Dermatologist 31. "Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious"
32. Normal temperature is 36.1C - 37.2C
33. (Happily) Married couples have a lower risk of cardiovascular disease. LOWERS BLOOD PRESSURE
Hugging and kissing MAKES YOU FEEL CALMER AND MORE SECURE
When in love, dopamine is released, activating the brain's pleasure centre. MAKES YOU FEEL HAPPIER
Neurochemicals in the brain give you a rush similar to addictive drugs. LOVE MAKING GIVES YOU A RUSH
Love alters your mood and impacts your experience of pain. IMPROVES MOOD & NUMBS PAIN
Your brain activates the vagus nerve, which is connected from the brain to your gut. HENCE GIVES YOU 'BUTTERFLIES'
Forming a bond with your partner can bring about physiological changes that LOWERS LEVELS OF STRESS & ANXIETY
Yikes!
34. Liver
35. CLICK & CLAP
36. 999
