Challenges in making standardisation work in healthcare: lessons from a qualitative interview study of a line-labelling policy in a UK region.

Objective: To identify and learn from efforts to design and implement a standardised policy for labelling of invasive tubing and lines across a regional health system.

Design: Single case study involving qualitative interviews and documentary analysis.

Setting: A devolved health system in the UK National Health Service (NHS).

The brain, self and society: a social-neuroscience model of predictive processing.

This paper presents a hypothesis about how social interactions shape and influence predictive processing in the brain. The paper integrates concepts from neuroscience and sociology where a gulf presently exists between the ways that each describe the same phenomenon - how the social world is engaged with by thinking humans. We combine the concepts of predictive processing models (also called predictive coding models in the neuroscience literature) with ideal types, typifications and social practice - concepts from the sociological literature.

Intervention strategies to improve nutrition and health behaviours before conception.

The nutritional status of both women and men before conception has profound implications for the growth, development, and long-term health of their offspring. Evidence of the effectiveness of preconception interventions for improving outcomes for mothers and babies is scarce. However, given the large potential health return, and relatively low costs and risk of harm, research into potential interventions is warranted.