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Doctors in Distress -The Charity Championing Change
We recently caught up with our friends at Doctors in Distress, a voluntary charity, set up to support healthcare professionals with their work struggles that can often lead to mental health problems. This entirely voluntary organisation was inspired by Consultant Cardiologist Dr Jagdip Sidhu’s sudden and tragic death in 2018 by suicide. Dr Jagdip…
Read MoreManaging Stress as a Frontline Worker
Are you a healthcare worker fighting COVID-19 on the frontline? Feel exhausted, stressed, and overwhelmed? Yet proud to be a hero. Well, even superheroes get stressed, it’s the body’s response to a crisis and perfectly natural, but what happens when your feeling too stressed, can’t think straight, lack energy and just can’t focus? Tips…
Read MoreWhat’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 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…
Read MoreA year without hugging- Does it affect us and how?
Key Reasons We Need Physical Contact Regularly If there’s one thing a global pandemic can highlight, it’s the importance of physical touch and contact with others. The vast majority of you reading this article today will likely have spent the best part of the last year in and out of lockdowns, social distancing, in…
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