Every psychiatric ward should have a lead consultant, DoH says

Should every adult patient in the hospital have an internist?

Should hospitals have a designated consultant with a specific interest in heart failure?

Chronotherapeutics in a psychiatric ward.

Psychiatric chronotherapeutics is the controlled exposure to environmental stimuli that act on biological rhythms in order to achieve therapeutic effects in the treatment of psychiatric conditions. In recent years some techniques (mainly light therapy and sleep deprivation) have passed the experimental developmental phase and reached the status of powerful and affordable clinical interventions ...

How should a consultant spend his time?

The activities of a whole-time consultant psychiatrist with clinical, teaching, and administrative responsibilities were analysed over six weeks. With the exclusion of time spent on call at night and weekends he worked an average of 57.4 hours a week. Altogether 42.3% of his time was spent on clinical work, 25.5% on general administration, and 24.0% on tutorial activities. Although he discharge...

DoH boost for nursing lead in primary care.

COMMUNITY NURSES' chances of leading primary care groups (PCGs) have been given a boost by new guidance to health authorities and trusts which insists on nurse involvement and warns that the groups must not be GP-dominated.