One man in five dies before the age of 65.
TOGETHER we can change that.

Nurses to tackle men's health

17/03/16 . Partners

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A charitable nursing trust is focusing its grants programme for 2016 on men's health.

The Burdett Trust for Nursing makes grants to nurses and allied health professionals for projects to improve patient care. It has selected the theme of ‘Men’s Health and Emergent Longer‐Term Conditions’ for their focussed 2016 Grants Programme.

This grants programme will support innovative, nurse‐led initiatives that promote men’s health and wellbeing and improve detection and access to health services. The organisation are interested in projects that will help to define proactive strategies and interventions that seek to promote better self‐care and self‐management and reverse the negative impact that undetected and untreated men’s longer‐term health challenges may impart.

The Burdett Trust believes that nurses can and should play an important role in closing the ‘men’s health gap’. The resulting benefits will have an impact not only on men, but on their families and society as a whole.

Martin Tod, the CEO of the Men's Health Forum said:

This is a great initiative. Nurses have always been a major driving force in the movement to improve men's health and it's great that the Burdett Trust is making funding available to help this to continue. We ourselves were set up by the Royal College of Nursing back in 1995. We'll also be happy to provide support and information to anyone looking to make a bid.

  • Two levels of award are available: for projects that fall within the range of £25K ‐ £50K, and for more substantial projects £50K ‐ £200K. More funds may be available for exceptional projects of national significance.
  • The closing date for applications is midnight, 2 April 2016.
  • Full details: The Burdett Trust for Nursing​

The Men’s Health Forum need your support

It’s tough for men to ask for help but if you don’t ask when you need it, things generally only get worse. So we’re asking.

In the UK, one man in five dies before the age of 65. If we had health policies and services that better reflected the needs of the whole population, it might not be like that. But it is. Policies and services and indeed men have been like this for a long time and they don’t change overnight just because we want them to.

It’s true that the UK’s men don’t have it bad compared to some other groups. We’re not asking you to ‘feel sorry’ for men or put them first. We’re talking here about something more complicated, something that falls outside the traditional charity fund-raising model of ‘doing something for those less fortunate than ourselves’. That model raises money but it seldom changes much. We’re talking about changing the way we look at the world. There is nothing inevitable about premature male death. Services accessible to all, a population better informed. These would benefit everyone - rich and poor, young and old, male and female - and that’s what we’re campaigning for.

We’re not asking you to look at images of pity, we’re just asking you to look around at the society you live in, at the men you know and at the families with sons, fathers and grandads missing.

Here’s our fund-raising page - please chip in if you can.

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