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At the beginning of Fairtrade Fortnight, the BMA is calling on the NHS in Scotland to adopt new guidance on ethical purchasing. http://www.otjonline.com/news2010/0223a.php Tue, 23 Feb 2010 20:12 GMT Spatula-like instrument found in woman's stomach 5 months after surgery http://www.otjonline.com/news2010/0222c.php Mon, 22 Feb 2010 07:26 GMT A NEW surgical treatment for varicose veins is to be offered at a private hospital in the Lothians. http://www.otjonline.com/news2010/0222b.php Mon, 22 Feb 2010 07:20 GMT This site covers everything you wish to learn about the schools, the job description, and salary data these professionals have. http://www.otjonline.com/news2010/0222a.php Mon, 22 Feb 2010 07:09 GMT Health informatics and social care professionals can now register for HC2010, the largest health and social care informatics congress in Europe, which will be held at the ICC Birmingham, UK, from 27 to 29 April 2010. http://www.otjonline.com/news2010/0207b.php Sun, 07 Feb 2010 18:05 GMT A patient presumed to be in a vegetative state for five years can communicate 'yes' and 'no' using just his thoughts, according to new research from the Medical Research Council (MRC) and the University of Liège. http://www.otjonline.com/news2010/0207a.php Sun, 07 Feb 2010 17:54 GMT On 6th - 14th November 2010, a group of adventure seekers will fly off to China to trek the Great Wall; in aid of the thousands of premature babies that are saved each year by research undertook by registered charity Action Medical Research. http://www.otjonline.com/news2010/0201c.php Mon, 01 Feb 2010 19:01 GMT An Irish hospital is the first in the world to embrace the latest science by specifying hygienic copper door handles throughout in a bid to reduce healthcare associated infections such as MRSA, providing the best possible solid protection to its patients. http://www.otjonline.com/news2010/0201b.php Mon, 01 Feb 2010 18:57 GMT A MAJOR charity challenge trekking 50 miles along the 'backbone of England' in just 24 hours is taking place this summer in aid of MedEquip4Kids. http://www.otjonline.com/news2010/0201a.php Mon, 01 Feb 2010 18:48 GMT A nurse uploading pictures of patients undergoing surgery to Facebook, has been suspended from Glasgow's Southern General Hospital. http://www.otjonline.com/news2010/0130b.php Sat, 30 Jan 2010 16:14 GMT Gavin Nicholson, 56, is alleged to have groped five women as they woke from anaesthetic at Washington's Spire Hospital. http://www.otjonline.com/news2010/0130a.php Sat, 30 Jan 2010 16:03 GMT A list of forthcoming RSM meetings that you may find of interest. Please contact The RSM if you wish to attend or find out more information. http://www.otjonline.com/study.php Sun, 24 Jan 2010 14:43 GMT From 19th January 2010, all NHS organisations will be legally obliged to take account of the rights and pledges set out in the NHS Constitution. http://www.otjonline.com/news2010/0122a.php Fri, 22 Jan 2010 07:08 GMT Operating department practitioner Kevin Andrew Cook has been struck off the HPC Register for stealing quantities of controlled drugs from the Theatre Recovery Unit drug cabinet at Nuffield Health Bristol Hospital. http://www.otjonline.com/news2010/0120a.php Wed, 20 Jan 2010 07:38 GMT AN operating theatre nurse, who parked on a main road so she could get to work the next morning, was slapped with a parking ticket - for not leaving her lights on. http://www.otjonline.com/news2010/0116a.php Sat, 16 Jan 2010 14:58 GMT The training changes that have given students the opportunity of getting a degree in nursing at university have provoked fears that the basic care of patients will suffer. http://www.otjonline.com/news2010/0113a.php Wed, 13 Jan 2010 17:34 GMT HEALTH chiefs at Basildon Hospital have been forced to cancel 26 scheduled operations due to the big freeze. http://www.otjonline.com/news2010/0111a.php Mon, 11 Jan 2010 17:38 GMT A woman has been arrested after intravenous drips used in a hospital's child and female wards were sabotaged. http://www.otjonline.com/news2010/0110a.php Sun, 10 Jan 2010 17:22 GMT The Forum of Private Business (FPB) is warning that the cost of a single day of employee absenteeism because of the freezing winter conditions could be at least GBP 230 million. http://www.otjonline.com/news2010/0107a.php Thu, 07 Jan 2010 17:53 GMT My Nursing Degree - A site providing a list of top nursing schools, news and on nursing job opportunities! http://www.otjonline.com/links_training.php Thu, 07 Jan 2010 15:57 GMT All critical care units in the UK are being encouraged to review how they look after patients whose abdomens are left open after surgery or injury. http://www.otjonline.com/news2010/0106a.php Wed, 06 Jan 2010 17:21 GMT Durban - Patients' lives are being endangered by the lack of working air conditioners in the operating theatre at KwaZulu-Natal's Manguzi hospital, hospital officials said on Tuesday http://www.otjonline.com/news2010/0105e.php Tue, 05 Jan 2010 21:05 GMT On 18th January 2010 Patient Safety First is launching the first of four focus weeks as part of its campaign to help trusts eliminate avoidable death and harm to patients. http://www.otjonline.com/news2010/0105d.php Tue, 05 Jan 2010 20:58 GMT The NHS paid out millions of pounds in compensation after surgical equipment was left inside patients following operations, it has been reported. http://www.otjonline.com/news2010/0105c.php Tue, 05 Jan 2010 20:54 GMT Proposals that would allow the dispensing of generic medicines instead of branded medicines in primary care, resulting in long term savings for the NHS, were set out today by the Department of Health http://www.otjonline.com/news2010/0105b.php Tue, 05 Jan 2010 20:48 GMT OPERATIONS may be delayed today at a Warwickshire hospital after a burst pipe led to flooding in their operating theatre. http://www.otjonline.com/news2010/0105a.php Tue, 05 Jan 2010 20:44 GMT Health Minister announces funding for new NHS Wales website http://www.otjonline.com/news2010/0104a.php Mon, 04 Jan 2010 17:56 GMT All non-urgent surgical operations have been cancelled at three hospitals in Cornwall affected by the winter vomiting bug norovirus. http://www.otjonline.com/news2010/0104.php Mon, 04 Jan 2010 07:38 GMT Following the passage of President Obamas healthcare bill through the U.S Senate Workers Uniting will launch an investigation into private U.S.-based healthcare providers who are bidding for work in the National Health Service (NHS). http://www.otjonline.com/news2009/1229c.php Tue, 29 Dec 2009 15:07 GMT A Preston hospital worker accused of taking morphine from surgical theatres has been suspended. http://www.otjonline.com/news2009/1229b.php Tue, 29 Dec 2009 15:02 GMT A consultation to provide fairer hospital car parking to patients was launched on the 29th of December by the Department of Health. http://www.otjonline.com/news2009/1229a.php Tue, 29 Dec 2009 14:56 GMT Northern Sydney Central Coast Health has confirmed three staff members at Gosford Hospital collapsed in an operating theatre within a short period of time last week. http://www.otjonline.com/news2009/1223a.php Wed, 23 Dec 2009 14:29 GMT New bodies that combine the expertise of industry, health and education have been formed to promote innovation in the NHS, Health Minister Ann Keen announced. http://www.otjonline.com/news2009/1222a.php Tue, 22 Dec 2009 07:15 GMT Medroc http://www.otjonline.com/links_other.php Sun, 20 Dec 2009 14:41 GMT New Links and Descriptions added to the site links http://www.otjonline.com/links_nursing.php Sun, 20 Dec 2009 14:32 GMT The cost of European Union regulations - ranging from restrictions on working hours to limits on the noise at which orchestras can play - is costing Britain more than GBP 18 billion a year, a report has found. http://www.otjonline.com/news2009/1220c.php Sun, 20 Dec 2009 14:13 GMT A PLYMOUTH hospital worker who stole sedatives and theatre equipment has had her suspension extended for a year. http://www.otjonline.com/news2009/1220b.php Sun, 20 Dec 2009 14:05 GMT A coroner has called on Christchurch Hospital to improve drug-abuse monitoring after an anaesthetist died of an accidental drug overdose. http://www.otjonline.com/news2009/1220a.php Sun, 20 Dec 2009 13:55 GMT Professor Matthew Cooke has been appointed as the new National Clinical Director for Urgent and Emergency Care, the Department of Health announced today. http://www.otjonline.com/news2009/1218b.php Fri, 18 Dec 2009 11:55 GMT The NHS Institute for Innovation and Improvement has launched the next two learning modules from its revolutionary service improvement programme, The Productive Operating Theatre. The new modules Teamworking and Scheduling tackle two key problem areas for the NHS which can impact on patient safety and cause delayed or cancelled operations. http://www.otjonline.com/news2009/1218a.php Fri, 18 Dec 2009 11:44 GMT The Resuscitation Council (UK) has updated this manual to include the latest guidance for healthcare providers, resuscitation officers and manual handling advisors involved in resuscitation. http://www.otjonline.com/news2009/1215a.php Tue, 15 Dec 2009 07:00 GMT Scientists have discovered five genetic variants that are associated with the health of the human lung. The research by an international consortium of 96 scientists from 63 centres in Europe and Australia sheds new light on the molecular basis of lung diseases. http://www.otjonline.com/news2009/1214a.php Mon, 14 Dec 2009 18:04 GMT A revolutionary new operating theatre at University College Hospital will be officially opened by celebrated playwright and former patient Alan Bennett. http://www.otjonline.com/news2009/1211a.php Fri, 11 Dec 2009 18:16 GMT From April 2010 the work of Patient Safety First, to make patient safety everyones highest priority will begin a new phase. http://www.otjonline.com/news2009/1209a.php Wed, 09 Dec 2009 06:57 GMT Making educational resources freely available to all is a hot topic, but in no area is it more important than Public Health. The Royal Society for Public Health is calling for educational resources to be contributed to a cutting edge project, known as PHORUS, which is testing out the feasibility of making public health educational resources available across the world free of charge. http://www.otjonline.com/news2009/1208b.php Tue, 08 Dec 2009 18:08 GMT A nurse who faked his job application to Great Western Ambulance Service, where he worked for over a year as an Emergency Care Practitioner (ECP), has been found guilty of fraud (Swindon Crown Court, 7th December 2009). This follows an investigation supported by the NHS Counter Fraud Service (NHS CFS). http://www.otjonline.com/news2009/1208a.php Tue, 08 Dec 2009 18:03 GMT Review 2009 at your leisure http://www.otjonline.com/back-issue2009.php Sat, 05 Dec 2009 07:21 GMT Paediatricians at the University of Leicester and the University Hospitals of Leicester NHS Trust have recently launched a unique online tool to improve the assessment of sick children. http://www.otjonline.com/news2009/1202a.php Wed, 02 Dec 2009 07:15 GMT The bloodborne transmission of HIV in sub-Saharan Africa is being intentionally underestimated by government and international agencies, including the World Health Organization and UNAIDS. http://www.otjonline.com/news2009/1201b.php Tue, 01 Dec 2009 07:15 GMT The NHS has today been given new powers to deal with low level anti-social behaviour. The Criminal Justice and Immigration Act (CJIA) 2008 creates a new criminal offence of causing a nuisance or disturbance on NHS hospital premises and refusing to leave - and a new power for authorised NHS staff to remove a person suspected of committing this offence. http://www.otjonline.com/news2009/1201a.php Tue, 01 Dec 2009 07:10 GMT About two dozen Operating Room System II Surgical Navigation Systems distributed worldwide by Stryker Corporation have been recalled because the screen the surgeon uses may slow down or freeze up. http://www.otjonline.com/news2009/1128g.php Sat, 28 Nov 2009 11:53 GMT A pilot to help patients get innovative new drugs not currently available on the NHS is being launched for consultation today by Health Minister Mike OBrien and Science and Innovation Minister Lord Drayson. http://www.otjonline.com/news2009/1128f.php Sat, 28 Nov 2009 11:46 GMT Andrew Cavanagh stole six vials of medication from an operating theatre in Dundee's Ninewells Hospital. http://www.otjonline.com/news2009/1128e.php Sat, 28 Nov 2009 11:35 GMT Members of the United Nurses of Children's Hospital have filed a lawsuit to halt mandatory H1N1 vaccinations. http://www.otjonline.com/news2009/1128d.php Sat, 28 Nov 2009 11:30 GMT PCTs have sanctioned staggering increases in management salary costs, with spending soaring by a quarter in just two years, a Pulse investigation reveals. http://www.otjonline.com/news2009/1128c.php Sat, 28 Nov 2009 11:23 GMT At a conference attended by hundreds of trade union activists in the UK, Workers Uniting will launch an investigation into private U.S.-based healthcare providers who are bidding for work in the National Health Service (NHS). The conference will be attended by senior workplace representatives from the UK and USA. http://www.otjonline.com/news2009/1128b.php Sat, 28 Nov 2009 11:18 GMT The National Patient Safety Agency (NPSA) has today announced an initiative that will see the NHS and healthcare industries develop safety design solutions which will improve patient safety. http://www.otjonline.com/news2009/1128a.php Sat, 28 Nov 2009 11:08 GMT Preventative measures will help keep NHS Staff fit and well http://www.otjonline.com/news2009/1123a.php Mon, 23 Nov 2009 17:40 GMT Summary Care Records containing key medical information which will be accessible wherever patients are treated are being rolled out across London, the Department of Health announced today. The scheme is taking off across England over the next year as part of a national roll-out of the programme. http://www.otjonline.com/news2009/1116a.php Mon, 16 Nov 2009 06:39 GMT Degree level education will raise quality of patient care. http://www.otjonline.com/news2009/1112b.php Thu, 12 Nov 2009 19:18 GMT New core standards for Assistant Practitioners are published today by Skills for Health, the Sector Skills Council for healthcare. http://www.otjonline.com/news2009/1112a.php Thu, 12 Nov 2009 19:12 GMT Operating department practitioner Brian Faulds has been struck off the HPC Register for being absent from work without appropriate authorisation whilst working at the Stoke Mandeville Hospital. http://www.otjonline.com/news2009/1111a.php Wed, 11 Nov 2009 17:29 GMT Publication dates for 2010 are available http://www.otjonline.com/publicationdates.php Wed, 11 Nov 2009 17:15 GMT The latest flu epidemic is hitting working age adults harder, as hospitals see a near 20-fold increase in the total number of bed days taken up by sufferers, new figures from The NHS Information Centre reveal. http://www.otjonline.com/news2009/1110c.php Tue, 10 Nov 2009 20:41 GMT Consultation launched on legal rights to waiting times and NHS Health Checks for patients http://www.otjonline.com/news2009/1110b.php Tue, 10 Nov 2009 20:31 GMT The vital year-round work of the NHS Security Management Service (NHS SMS) is explained by Managing Director Dermid McCausland in an online broadcast to mark NHS Security Awareness Month (SAM), which runs throughout November 2009. http://www.otjonline.com/news2009/1110a.php Tue, 10 Nov 2009 20:24 GMT The NHS could not function effectively without the aid and support of specialist recruitment consultancies yet recruiters are still portrayed as the bad guy an image which needs to change. Thats the message from specialist healthcare recruiter Arrows Group. http://www.otjonline.com/news2009/1109a.php Mon, 09 Nov 2009 15:07 GMT The award-winning author and lawyer Wesley J. Smith will be coming to Scotland on a series of high-level debates on the topic of euthanasia and assisted suicide where he will be having discussions with Mr. Jeremy Purvis MSP, Dr. Libby Wilson GP and Dr. Alasdair Maclean, MBBS, M.Jur., PhD. http://www.otjonline.com/news2009/1108b.php Sun, 08 Nov 2009 17:42 GMT At a meeting on Sudden Cardiac Death (SCD) at the Royal Society of Medicine, sponsored by Cardiac Risk in the Young (CRY), doctors have called for coroners to routinely request consent from relatives to allow small amounts of tissue to be retained from young people (under 35 year olds) who die suddenly from heart disease or without explanation. DNA extracted from the retained tissue may then be tested to provide information about possible genetic conditions that might explain that persons death, and which may therefore affect their relatives. http://www.otjonline.com/news2009/1108a.php Sun, 08 Nov 2009 17:34 GMT New Links and Descriptions added to the site links http://www.otjonline.com/links_reference.php Sat, 07 Nov 2009 12:15 GMT The Clean Hands Coalition is referenced http://www.otjonline.com/links_infection_control.php Sat, 07 Nov 2009 12:09 GMT The completion of a series of reforms, to strengthen the focus on public protection in the regulation of health professionals including nurses, midwives and dentists, was announced by the Department of Health. http://www.otjonline.com/news2009/1105g.php Thu, 05 Nov 2009 15:07 GMT Prime Ministers Commission sets out its vision for the future. http://www.otjonline.com/news2009/1105f.php Thu, 05 Nov 2009 14:56 GMT Managers at the GBP 56m Queen Alexandra Hospital in Cosham have contacted about 400 former employees in preparation for the flu season, when cases are predicted to rise. http://www.otjonline.com/news2009/1105e.php Thu, 05 Nov 2009 14:47 GMT A surgical flash fire caused the death of a woman recently at Marion, Illinois' Heartland Regional Medical Center. The Associated Press (AP) reported that the woman was seriously burned in a fire that occurred during surgery, dying six days later at the Vanderbilt University Medical Center in Tennessee. http://www.otjonline.com/news2009/1105d.php Thu, 05 Nov 2009 09:40 GMT A consultation seeking views on how students studying to be nurses, midwives and doctors should be funded in their studies was launched by Health Minister Ann Keen. http://www.otjonline.com/news2009/1105c.php Thu, 05 Nov 2009 09:28 GMT As many as half of specialists taking referrals from GPs at some hospitals are not medically qualified, a Pulse investigation reveals. http://www.otjonline.com/news2009/1105b.php Thu, 05 Nov 2009 07:31 GMT The Department of Health is today publishing new guidance to help the NHS improve the care provided for premature and sick babies during their first days. http://www.otjonline.com/news2009/1105a.php Thu, 05 Nov 2009 07:16 GMT A German banker forged medical qualifications to turn himself into a surgeon and worked for 14 months in a major hospital's operating theatre before he was finally rumbled. http://www.otjonline.com/news2009/1101g.php Sun, 01 Nov 2009 11:54 GMT HOSPITAL beds will be lost and staff numbers could be cut to plug a GBP 30m budget gap in one of Wales' largest NHS trusts. http://www.otjonline.com/news2009/1101f.php Sun, 01 Nov 2009 11:46 GMT The NHS Institute for Innovation and Improvement today launched a programme for theatre staff that uses improvement strategies to help significantly improve patient experience and outcomes. http://www.otjonline.com/news2009/1101e.php Sun, 01 Nov 2009 11:40 GMT The Bloodbot is an active robot designed to take blood samples from the ante-cubital fossa (ACF) which is the area in the crease of the arm where the veins are close to the surface of the skin. It is the most common place from which to take blood samples. http://www.otjonline.com/news2009/1101d.php Sun, 01 Nov 2009 11:30 GMT Health department urges frontline staff to get jab; Inoculation vital in efforts to contain pandemic http://www.otjonline.com/news2009/1101c.php Sun, 01 Nov 2009 11:21 GMT Operating department practitioner Mr John Gough has been struck off the HPC Register for providing falsified information in employment references whilst employed by North Cheshire Hospitals NHS Trust. http://www.otjonline.com/news2009/1101b.php Sun, 01 Nov 2009 11:17 GMT A HOSPITAL worker who 'joked' about keeping human body parts in his freezer for work he was not qualified to do has been struck off by the Health Profession Council. http://www.otjonline.com/news2009/1101a.php Sun, 01 Nov 2009 11:00 GMT