Australian Workers’ Narratives about Emergency Relief and Employment Service Clients: Complex Issues, Simple Solutions

Service improvement using patient narratives: engaging with the issues.

In this paper, the authors reflect on data quality issues arising from a UK project that trained senior practitioners to undertake Discovery Interviews with older people and their relatives about their urgent care experiences. These reflections are used to explore the potential for qualitative research methods to inform the development of the Discovery Interview technique.

Pre-employment screening among health care workers--ethical issues.

Occupational health practitioners deal with the questions of confidentiality, relation between the right to work and the right to health, between individual freedom and the risks other can run. An audit of pre-employment health assessment of health care workers, in the United Kingdom and in France, discussed the efficiency of pre-employment screening. Screening tests and medical examinations sh...

Simple leads to complex solutions.

To cite: Sheridan M, Kirubakaran S. BMJ Case Rep Published online: [please include Day Month Year] doi:10.1136/bcr-2014208869 DESCRIPTION A 76-year-old woman on warfarin for atrial fibrillation presented for routine pacing check 6 weeks after implantation of a dual-chamber device. She felt weak and generally unwell. The atrial lead was not sensing or pacing at high outputs. A chest X-ray showed...

No "simple solutions" to emergency log-jam.

A Discussion about Solutions to the Employment Problem of China

Employment is one of the bread-and –butter issues requiring urgent attention and careful handling. With the accelerating of the urbanization, a large number of surplus labors have appeared in rural areas of China. At the same time, in the course of the deepening reform of state-owned enterprises, there are more and more laid-off workers, so the problem of unemployment sticks out. In this paper,...