Junior Doctors Category

Opinions, opportunities and news affecting junior doctors.

Dame Stephanie Shirley: in praise of the RSM

Mental Health
WHO Mental Health Guidelines Could Better capture …
Mental health patients want mental health diagnostic descriptions to better reflect what it feels like to live with their conditions in the World Health Organisation’s global manual of diagnoses – …
Heart & Lung, Paediatrics, Tobacco
Children from Deprived Areas Six Times More …
Children from the most income deprived areas experienced similar exposure to tobacco retailing in one day as children from the least deprived areas experienced in one week. This was the …
Innovation, Mental Health
Innovative Mental Health Portal The Mind Map …
A new mental health portal www.themindmap.co.uk will launch on Wednesday 3 July 2019. This innovative new platform focuses on providing young people, predominantly aged between 16 – 30 access to …
Uncategorised
Call for Green Burial Corridors Alongside Roads, …
A leading public health expert is calling for a strategic initiative to develop green burial corridors alongside major transport routes because British graveyards and cemeteries are rapidly running out of …
Ageing
Mouth Care Matters in Older People
Our population is ageing as the health care workforce is ever more stretched; is mouth care being sacrificed on the altar of busyness? The scale of the problem Health journalist …