In the first week of September, a Course for Scandinavians on Human Relations in Industry was held at Roffey Park Rehabilitation Centre in England. The Course was arranged with the help of the World Health Organisation which had given a money grant to enable three delegates from each of the four Northern Countries to attend. Altogether 24 people attended the Course including 18* doctors?for the...

INTRODUCTION Ireland has strong tobacco control legislation but must get smokers to stop if the national plan of having a smoking prevalence of 5% by the year 2025 is possible. Involving all healthcare staff in this effort is regarded as important. We surveyed the present situation. METHODS An online survey was conducted of 1257 healthcare staff; 520 nurses, 440 doctors, 297 dentists in 2014. T...

In recent years medical handover has been identified as an increasingly important area for hospitals to improve upon, in light of the changes in shift patterns for doctors. Significant changes to weekday handover had recently been successfully introduced at Broomfield hospital. Weekend handover remained a concern, with an electronic and paper system being used simultaneously. Our objectives wer...

background and objective: this study was undertaken to assess the levels of job satisfaction and its correlates among nurses and doctors in aminu kano teaching hospital (akth); and to compare the levels of job satisfaction between nurses and doctors.   methods: in a cross-sectional study, 350 nurses and doctors in aminu kano teaching hospital were surveyed. socio-demographic data, employment ch...

BACKGROUND The organisation of junior doctors' work hours has been radically altered following the partial implementation of the European Working Time Directive. Poorly designed shift schedules cause excessive disruption to shift workers' circadian rhythms. METHOD Interviews and focus groups were used to explore perceptions among junior doctors and hospital managers regarding the impact of th...

This study was devised to determine the proportion of patients with epistaxis seen in accident and emergency (A&E) departments and discharged with verbal/written advice, and to examine if this information affects re-attendance rates. A questionnaire was given to all A&E doctors probing their current practice regarding advice given to patients with epistaxis on discharge. The information was com...

For many years British paediatricians have been welcoming overseas doctors to their hospitals for postgraduate training, and of some 270 paediatric registrars currently employed in the National Health Service (NHS) in England and Wales over 100 were born overseas. These posts have always offered good practical training, although their organisation has of necessity been haphazard. In a memorandu...

It’s all too easy to feel helpless about the ongoing plight of the refugees crossing Europe during 2015. In the most recent development thousands of men, women, and children are stranded near the town of Idomeni, on the border of Greece and Macedonia. The charity Doctors of the World aims to meet the serious medical and emotional health needs of all excluded people and is working in almost ever...

Family medicine is undergoing dramatic transformation around the world. Its organisation, delivery, and funding are changing in profound ways. While the specifics of primary care reform vary, a common emerging strategy involves establishment of primary health care teams that provide improved access, use electronic records, are networked with other teams, and are paid using blended payment schem...

OBJECTIVE To determine general practitioners' attitudes to medical audit and to establish what initiatives are already being undertaken; to define future ideas for audit and perceived difficulties in implementing audit in primary care. DESIGN Analysis of responses to a self administered postal questionnaire. SETTING Urban conurbation with a population of about 750,000. PARTICIPANTS 386 ge...