Thousands of foreign medical professionals underpin the UK's National Health Service (NHS). In 2004, of the country's newly registered medics, two thirds of the doctors, and over 40% of the nurses, had come from other countries. In total, about 72,000 of the UK's 212,000 registered doctors are not British. That figure includes, for example, around 12,500 doctors from Africa and, from the EU,…
Berlin, Germany - The three-month university hospital doctors` strike was nearing its end at the time of EH going to press.
UK - Brunel University is to provide a new three-year course offering a Doctorate in Public Health. The doctorate course, which will commence in October this year, is unique because it is cross-disciplinary, involving internationally recognised academics in medical anthropology, biostatistics, health economics, epidemiology, environmental sciences, health promotion, health services research,…
The case for structured training, board certification and revalidation*
The question of who should manage intensive care was hotly debated at the 35th Annual Meeting of the German Society for Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery (GSTCVS); not always essentially, frequently aggressively, sometimes even insulting says EH Correspondent Holger Zorn
There is growing unrest in the nursing profession in the UK following announcements of planned job cuts in the NHS.
Common unrest about pay and conditions leads doctors to strike in Germany and Spain. A report from Germany.
Within the five-days of ECR 2006, the congress management collaborated with European Hospital to hold another two-day:
Dr Darius Jakubowski, a perinatal specialist and former senior physician at Holweide Hospital, works for three days a week at Holweide Hospital as a resident gynaecologist.
In some areas of Spain, doctors are also becoming even militant.
Healthcare has no room for inefficiencies. Public healthcare managers, especially for hospitals, have to provide an increasing volume of high-level healthcare services with limited resources.
Radiologists working abroad - the reality
The problem is ubiquitous: Due to their workload, medical teams cannot accomplish their tasks to everyone’s satisfaction during regular working hours. Is the solution to raise staffing levels? More politics? At a political level a framework could be created but its actual implementation must occur within a facility, because that is where work schedules are drawn up, writes Denise Hennig,…
Managing a modern healthcare organisation is complex. Complexity stems from the variables that need to be entertained, which are highly unpredictable.
Paul E Pepe MD MPH FACEP FCCM, Professor of Medicine, Surgery, Public Health and Chair, Emergency Medicine, The University of Texas Southwestern Medical Centre and the Parkland Health and Hospital System (TSMC&PHHS), Dallas.
Poland - Many medical workers may soon be ethically challenged by a decision made in Europe's Court of Human Rights regarding a woman who had been refused an abortion there.
Radiology in public hospitals is under economic pressure due to limited public funding, partially decreasing radiology fees, capitation payment systems, central planning of capital investment, as well as the increasing complexity and cost of equipment.
Disturbingly high rates of medical errors, lack of care co-ordination, poor communication between doctors/patients, and barriers when accessing care, are experienced by patients in the United States (US), Australia, Canada, NZ (NZ) and the United Kingdom (UK).
In a three part study in clinical and cost effectiveness of nurse practitioners (published by the BMA in the Emergency Medicine Journal 2003; 20:158-163) a team* from Sheffield University and the Northern General Hospital have concluded that “... a nurse practitioner minor injury service can provide a safe and effective service for the treatment of minor injury. However, the costs of such a…
Injuries caused by needles and other sharp medical devices - and the related risk of potentially fatal disease transmission - remain a major threat to medical staff.
Understandably, any development or re-design of a healthcare institution is multi-faceted, and, given the changes in healthcare delivery and politics,