Why the NHS should be careful with flu jabs: Employers must not pressurise staff to turn up for work if they experience adverse reactions to the vaccinedoi:10.7748/phc.33.6.10.s4INFLUENZA vaccinesIMMUNIZATIONNATIONAL health servicesNURSESTo be jabbed or not to be jabbed? Tha...
The condition should probably just be called plantar heel pain10 or the even less precise plantar foot pain (because some people have more arch than heel pain). In an alternate universe, we might be calling it “calcaneal stress syndrome,” emphasizing the possibility of bone fatigue in the ...
In this article Paul Henderson, Director of Consulting, UK&I Healthcare & Government, IQVIA, discusses how an effective Research Unit can enable us to gain more from their brilliant work. “In a previous role as commissioner of Research and Development (R&D), working in the NHS, I learned...
But what do we mean when we speak of service? Is it mere self-abnegation? Perhaps an example might aid our answering of this question: In my most recent work, I have been teaching the Chinese game of "go" (Igo) to four classes at a local elementary school. The game dates back 4,...
And I regularly work seven-day weeks. I became a surgeon because it was quite obvious to me, even as a doctor on the wards, that surgery has a large and explicit impact on patients' lives. I would see cancer sufferers go from being very sick to becoming well again - surgery gave ...
have ambition, academic excellence, and great decision making skills to offer NHS. I have been striving to do my academic best for a chance to be in the NHS, I show this with my 3.5 GPA. The National Honor Society is based off four pillars: Scholarship, Leadership, Service and Character...
Strike dates will be announced for the Christmas period. Almost 400 GMB members who work for Bestfood and deliver food to chain restaurants such as KFC, Burger King, Pizza Hut, Zizzi, Pizza Express and Wagamama have voted to strike.
Ensuring accurate and publicly available data sets from more healthcare systems for various purposes will better support the clinical NLP community. Coding from heterogeneous, incomplete, and noisy sources—Clinical coding should be based on all the relevant documents of a patient, rather than just ...
“I think if we were insistent on everybody being there in person it would really shrink the pool of people able to participate,” Blunden adds. Should we pay the chair? Ensuring the best people can participate in MAT governance opens up one final, and big, question: should the chair of...
or to hang out with other smokers during work. Smoking can be a way of dealing with stress, fatigue or even boredom. It may be that smoking becomes so habitual for you that in order to quit you not only have to deal with the physical addiction of nicotine, but also significantly change...