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Latest NewsWellbeingOccupational Health

News in brief

by Nic Paton 25 Apr 2008
by Nic Paton 25 Apr 2008

Bigger pharmacists role


Pharmacists are to be given a much greater role in helping people with relatively minor medical conditions under government plans. The proposals in a Department of Health White Paper will give them the power to prescribe some common medicines, provide support for people with conditions such as high blood pressure or asthma, and screen for vascular and some sexually transmitted diseases.


OHN register deadline


The Association of Occupational Health Nurse Educators is advising OH nurses that the latest date for migrating to Nursing and Midwifery Council’s Specialist Community Public Health Nursing Register, or the third part of the register, is 31 December this year. First-level nurses who hold a diploma or certificate in OH awarded before 1998 and who wish to maintain or be accredited must transfer before this date.


Miscarriage risk for vets


Female vets run twice the risk of miscarriage as a result of exposure to anaesthetic gases and pesticides, a study in the journal Occupational and Environmental Medicine has suggested. The study of 2,800 veterinary graduates found that women carrying out surgery and exposed to anaesthetic gases that were not filtered out of the atmosphere for an hour or more a week were almost 2.5 times more likely to miscarry.


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Abuse rife for NHS staff


NHS workers are still reporting high levels of violence and abuse, but training to combat it appears to be improving, according to the Healthcare Commission. Some 13% of NHS workers said they had experienced physical violence from patients or their relatives in the 12 months prior to the survey in 2007, the same as in 2006, and up one percentage point from 2005. But the number of trusts offering training to combat it was up four percentage points to 26%.

Nic Paton

Nic Paton is consultant editor at Personnel Today. One of the country's foremost workplace health journalists, Nic has written for Personnel Today and Occupational Health & Wellbeing since 2001, and edited the magazine from 2018.

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