Clinical governance
Cope with the countdown to GDPR
With the EU’s General Data Protection Regulation coming in next month, occupational health practitioners need to be reviewing how they...
Will a united body put the future in the hands of occupational health nurses?
The decision in October by the Association of Occupational Health Nurse Practitioners (AOHNP) to merge with the Faculty of Occupational...
AOHNP and Faculty of Occupational Health Nursing vote to merge
The Association of Occupational Health Nurses Practitioners (AOHNP) will merge with the Faculty of Occupational Health Nursing (FOHN) when it...
How to succeed in NMC revalidation for occupational health
Occupational health nurses will be familiar by now with the process of NMC revalidation, but concerns remain about how to...
Occupational health confidentiality: doctors welcome revised GMC guidance
Occupational health doctors welcomed the General Medical Council’s (GMC’s) publication in January of revised guidance on confidentiality for all doctors...
SEQOHS standard: how an OH physiotherapy service blazed a trail to accreditation
Crystal Palace Physio Group has become the first occupational health physiotherapy service to achieve the SEQOHS standard for occupational health...
PHE blueprint for occupational health nurse education sets standards for future OH training
Public Health England (PHE) has set out a new blueprint for occupational health nurse education, designed to respond to the...
Occupational Health nurses call for sweeping changes to education and regulation
Occupational health nurses leading the development of a Faculty of Occupational Health Nursing (FOHN) have called for sweeping changes to...
What NMC revalidation means for occupational health nurses
Anne Harriss looks back at the history of the nursing profession, and examines some of the implications associated with professional...
SEQOHS accreditation programme to be developed for construction sector
A Safe Effective Quality Occupational Health Service (SEQOHS) accreditation programme specifically for providers working within the construction sector is being...
Occupational health doctors vote against plans for united body embracing OH nurses
The Society of Occupational Medicine has pledged to work closely with OH nurses “to find out how it can better...
Is the loss of funding for the NHS quality unit a blow to UK occupational health?
“Disappointed”, “incredibly disappointed”, “deeply disappointed”, “short-sighted”, “sad”, “a great loss” – the response to the announcement in July that the...
NHS occupational health quality unit to close due to lack of funds
Occupational health as a speciality and professional community needs to “reflect” on why there was not enough uptake or financial...
Monitoring MoHaWK clinical governance system
National audits are rapidly becoming an established part of the occupational health (OH) landscape, especially in the NHS. Nic Paton...
OH practitioner investigated for reusing syringes in blood tests
More than 600 students at the University of Derby were contacted in April to be called back for blood tests...
