C. E. Green, Occupational Health Department, County Durham and Darlington Foundation Trust, Bishop Auckland Hospital Background DNAs are a serious problem for the NHS. They lead to a waste of clinical/administrative resources, cause considerable cost, and reduce available appointments. Aims Since the start of the pandemic most of the appointments in our department became phone...
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K. Kuncewicz, King’s College London, UK Background Currently, research suggests non-occupational health doctors rarely discuss occupation with patients. There is limited research on the attitudes and practices of doctors discussing patient occupation and return to work. Aim To explore the attitudes of ophthalmology doctors towards work as a clinical outcome and highlight occupational health (OH)...
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E. S. L. Porter, Self Employed, Belfast, UK Background Prevention of burnout in the medical profession is of global interest due to the economic burden of sickness absenteeism and other negative consequences of burnout relating to job satisfaction, performance, and patient care. A healthy, functioning workforce is central to delivery of good primary care. Aim...
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V. Parsons1, S. Pattani2, A. Gilbey3, I. Madan1, C. Harling4, R. Muiry1, A. De Bono5 1Guy's and St Thomas NHS Foundation Trust, UK 2London North West University Healthcare NHS Trust, UK 3NHS Health at Work Network, UK 4University of Southampton, UK 5University Hospitals of Leicester NHS Trust, UK A commissioned project to define the...
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R. J. L. Heron, IOMSC, UK The International Occupational Medicine Society Collaborative (IOMSC) was established in 2013 as an assembly for representatives of occupational medicine societies to promote greater awareness of issues and best practices for better worker health worldwide. It has grown to 48 societies in 43 countries, representing more than 30,000 occupational medicine...
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F. M. Ryan1, D. Border2, M. Bhattacharyya3 1Department of Health and Social Care 2UK Health Security Agency; Oxford University Hospitals NHS Trust 3UK Health Security Agency; BHSF Ltd, London, UK Background: The COVID-19 pandemic raised the profile and secured the relationship between occupational medicine (OM) and public health (PH)[1]. Throughout, testing for COVID-19 was...
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R. Dobson, R. O. O'Donnell, D. Eadie, S. Semple University of Stirling, UK Background Second-hand smoke (SHS) is harmful to health. Since 2006/7 the UK has reduced the number of workers exposed to SHS significantly. Data from Scotland indicates the proportion of non-smoking adults exposed to SHS has fallen from 83% to 19%, with...
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I.R. Stilz1, M. Freire de Carvalho2, S. Toner3, H. Berg4 1Shell Occupational Health Services, London, UK 2Shell International, Houston USA 3Johnson and Johnson, The Netherlands 4Shell International, The Hague, The Netherlands Background Telemedicine is increasingly used to enhance medical care provision in a range of health care settings, including populations in rural or remote...
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B. P. Bergman, D. F. Mackay, J. P. Pell, University of Glasgow, UK BACKGROUND There is no consensus as to whether military service increases the risk of suicide, although most studies have found no clear evidence of increased risk. Data from the Trends in Scottish Veterans Health cohort were examined to investigate suicides in...
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E. Wainwright1, A. Jordan2, E. Fisher2, C. Wilson3, D. Mullen3, H. Madhavakkannan2 1University of Aberdeen, UK 2University of Bath, UK 3Trinity College Dublin, Ireland Background: Approximately 25% of young people live with chronic pain [1] often with co-morbid worry [2]. Beliefs about worry and pain are important in understanding maintenance of these phenomena and...