Category Archives: health
FREE social networking website backed by the NHS
Help at hand for the housebound
- by Helen Rae, Evening Chronicle
- Sep 19 2011
HEALTH Reporter Helen Rae explains how an NHS backed website is improving care for patients.
A FREE social networking website backed by the NHS is improving care for housebound patients and their carers.
Justvisiting.com is a not-for-profit website which is built around a secure interactive message board which creates online visiting rooms where hospital and housebound patients and their carers can meet up and talk to their friends and family.
GMC says more support needed for overseas doctors in UK
16 September 2011 Last updated at 01:16
“Being a doctor in the UK requires much more that just clinical expertise. It is also important to have highly developed communications skills, knowledge of UK medical ethics and culture, and an understanding of how the NHS works.
By Adam Brimelow Health Correspondent, BBC News
It says those trained under different cultural and professional standards need more support.
Still Nursing At 90 from Nevada!
Still Nursing At 90
(This story was taken from NurseTogether contributor Sue Heacock’s book “Inspiring the Inspirational: Words of Hope from Nurses to Nurses“.)
The other night, my husband and I were watching television when someone on a commercial stated something about retiring at age 90. I didn’t hear the rest of the dialogue because I was rolling on the floor and laughing too hard at the visual images I was getting of my own future. As a baby boomer that is not independently wealthy, I fully expect that the words, “I’m retired” will not be coming from my lips in this lifetime.
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