Over two-thirds of health visitors (69%) feel there is not enough staff in their trust to do their job properly, compared with 45% of NHS staff overall.
More health visitors and district nurses reported that they did not have enough time to do all their work (69% and 58% respectively) than the rest of the NHS (48%).
Health minister Ann Keen said that overall, the survey showed working within the NHS to be a rewarding Read more »
The new Smokefree campaign focuses on teenagers concerns about their parents’ future due to the harmful effects of smoking.
An NHS Stop Smoking Services survey of 400 children aged 11- to 15-year-olds whose parents smoked found that 46% were more worried about parents’ smoking than anything else.
In addition, 43% said they understood the risk of smoking better than their parents and 75% had asked their parents Read more »
You can’t turn on the television without seeing an advertisement for some sort of weight loss program. If they work, why are there so many of them? The reason is because all programs do not work for all bodies. If you know your body and what makes it tick, you can choose from the most popular and successful plans to give you a boost on your weight loss journey. Here are just a few of the more popular weight loss programs Read more »
The figure falls to 44% for sessional GPs, according to NHS Quality Improvement Scotland.
The watchdog’s report makes a series of recommendations to boost the number of GPs appraised annually.
These include the setting up of a national group to share areas of good practice and the setting up of one accurate database of GPs eligible to work in Scotland.
Jan Warner, the watchdog’s director of patient Read more »
The makers and distributors of the promotional products of course.
It’s a $19 billion industry, and the ban is going to set these companies back at least $1 billion. Pen makers for instance, often receive orders in excess of one million pens per drug.
You may want to hang on to what you already have, as current drug-branded trinkets like mugs, mouse pads, and pens may become hot commodities on eBay.
Microsoft released a study looking at the patterns of those who perform health-related searches on popular search engines.
To no one’s surprise, “self-diagnosis by search engine frequently leads Web searchers to conclude the worst about what ails them.”
People only looked at the first few results for their keyword symptom searches, which often contained zebras like “ALS” or “brain tumor,” meaning they often Read more »
Welcome to Yoga! Here, read a basic guide to yoga styles that will help you find the best yoga practice to suit your interest and physical condition.
The image of yoga has changed during the past years. If once, the first picture that popped your mind was of a group of white wearing weirdoes standing on their heads and breathing loudly, now you are probably thinking about Madonna’s well shaped arms. Currently, yoga is one of Read more »
