Occupational health service for the NHS.

A coordinated occupational health service in the NHS.

Doctor and dentist contacts with an NHS occupational health service.

BACKGROUND There is increasing acceptance that management of ill-health in doctors can be patchy and is not always optimal. Health can impact on performance and fitness to practice, placing an important responsibility on occupational health (OH) services. AIMS To improve our understanding of OH contacts by doctors and dentists and make some comparison of this with available sickness absence r...

Occupational health in the new NHS.

Editorial Occupational Health in the new NHS Occupational health services in the National Health Services (NHS) came late and still vary from district to district both in quantity and quality of service. From small beginnings, the provision of occupational health services has expanded and now every health district either has its own service or has hospitals within it with services oftheir own. ...

Slow Poisoning? Interests, Emotions, and the Strength of the English NHS; Comment on “Who Killed the English National Health Service?”

Martin Powell makes the point that the death of the National Health Service (NHS) is constantly asserted without criteria. This article suggests that the NHS is many things, which makes criteria unstable. The alignment of interests in the structure of the NHS enables both overheated rhetoric and political strength, and that pluralization of provision might actually undermine that alignment over...

Occupational medicine in the National Health Service.

For many doctors working within the National Health Service (NHS), occupational medicine remains a specialty on the fringe of their awareness. Undergraduate exposure to the subject is limited in most medical schools and at postgraduate level health and safety training in relation to medical work is given little emphasis. The fact that the majority of those who work in occupational medicine are ...