Health visitors in south Wales set to strike after NHS employer ignores job evaluation appeal
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<p>It is estimated that around 5.2 million people in the UK suffer from asthma, making it the most common long term illness in this country.</p>
<p>Ankle injuries are common complaints in patients presenting to A&E, making up about 5 per cent of the workload in an average department (Wardrope and English 19
<p>Primary care is defined as a regular source of care characterised by continuity, comprehensiveness, co-ordination, availability and convenience (Donaldson et al 1996, S
<p>Studies have found that about half of emergency department (ED) patients could have been managed by other services (Coleman et al 2001, Salisbury and Munro 2003).
<p>Research suggests that many critically ill patients have cardiac arrest because of inadequate initial assessment and subsequent non-recognition of patient deterioration
<p>The emergency directorate at Heart of England NHS Foundation Trust, formerly known as Birmingham Heartlands and Solihull NHS Trust, has recently employed two physiother
<p>The Achilles tendon is the largest, thickest and strongest tendon in the body. Nevertheless, it is vulnerable to injury in several ways.</p>
<p>Emergency nurse practitioners (ENPs) frequently encounter unusual clinical presentations, and locating and removing foreign bodies (FBs) from various anatomical locatio
<p>The reform of emergency care has led to a significant rise in the prevalence of emergency nurse practitioners (ENPs) in emergency departments (National Audit Office 200
<p>The Manchester Triage System (MTS) offers emergency department practitioners a structure for decision making at triage and for providing urgent care to patients with ac
<p>Objective</p> <p>To test the convergent validity of the Manchester pain scale when compared to the current ‘gold standard’ in children’s pain assessment, th
<p>Self-harm, described as a behaviour not an illness (Isacsson and Rich 2001), is a complex issue with much debate surrounding its cause and treatment (McAllister 2003 an
<p>The first two articles in this series described the anatomy and physiology of the vertebral column and spinal cord, and examined the aetiology and patho-physiology of spinal cord injuries (Sheerin 2004, 2005).
<p>The needs of people with mental health problems have been prioritised over recent years but the focus for improvement within the health service has been on secondary care and specialist mental health services.</p>
<p>The incidence of spinal cord injury worldwide stands at about 20 new cases per million of population a year (Glass 1999), but is double this figure in the US (DeVivo 2002).</p>
<p>The management of patients with acute myocardial infarction (AMI) can be divided in to three groups: resuscitation, management of pain and reperfusion therapy (Castle 2003).</p>
<p>Muscle contusions are extremely common injuries in contact sports, such as football, rugby and the martial arts (O’Donoghue 1984), and are seen and treated frequently by emergency department staff as well as trainers, GPs and orthopaedic surgeons (Diaz et al 2003).</p>
<p>The imminent arrival of spinal injured patients at emergency departments often sparks fear in all but the most experienced clinicians.</p>
