General blogs
What’s Hot in Healthcare for 2021? Five Emerging Trends
Due to recent world events, it’s probably safe to assume that everybody has now realised just how important healthcare is and how hard healthcare practitioners, doctors, nurses, surgeons, GPs, and many more besides work to provide healthcare to the general public. If there’s one thing the Coronavirus pandemic has highlighted in the healthcare industry,…
Read MoreNHS Reform – Key Points
Ever since the global pandemic took hold here in the UK back in 2020, it is safe to say that COVID-19 has changed the way our National Health Service operates. For the last year now, hospitals up and down the UK, many of which have been hugely understaffed, have found themselves on the brink of…
Read MoreTop 5 Tricky Questions at a Nursing Interview
Most of us have been there, sweaty palms, racing heart, and ever hopeful that this is the job for us. Then the question you have been hoping will not come up suddenly comes from the interviewer’s mouth, and you are like a rabbit hit by headlights! Being prepared helps you feel relaxed. Also, having a…
Read MoreAre you suffering with Long Covid?
The effects of Covid cannot be overemphasized as the world witnessed a new force of a single virus that shut down businesses, restricted movement and infected millions of people across the globe. Since then, medical practitioners and research specialists in the UK and worldwide have been on a mission to get rid of this virus…
Read MoreBlinded by Facts: Challenges faced by an Increase in Screen Time
As the wrath of Covid-19 swept the world, millions of people and governments were forced into lockdown, displaced, and confined to their own houses. In these unprecedented times, the “digital space” played a tremendous role by proving to be an absolute “blessing in disguise” for many of us, but it came with its consequences. …
Read MoreThe Healthcare Flexible-Workforce Landscape in the UK
Introduction Globally, there has been considerable growth in flexible working, not excepting the healthcare profession where non-permanent healthcare workers are referred to as locums or as I prefer to refer to as ‘the flexible workforce solution’. A locum position is a short-mid-term cover for a role by another in the same profession, especially among…
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