As the year marches on, we come to the beginning of Spring and the end of the financial year budgets. Within many organisations resources are reviewed, rotations rotate and the gaps in services are identified by managers look to fill new or existing posts and put them out for advert.
The Mid Staffordshire case highlighted to us all what can happen if people do not speak up. Patients are one of the main reasons we all do our jobs in healthcare. Their safety is in our hands daily. This should always be remembered and at the forefront of our minds.
Recently there has been a lot of attention focussed on what patients wear in MRI. It comes after a case report detailing how a patient experienced skin burns in an MRI scanner in an unfortunate incident thought to be linked to her clothing.
The biggest thing I have learned from my study of paediatric medicine at university and beginning my work in paediatric pharmacy is that children are not just smaller adults.
Imagine you are selling yourself and what you do to someone with no knowledge of either the health service or occupational therapy. Someone who wanted to market you to people who have no idea who you are or what you do....