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Nov 27th 2008Drug InformationMental Health
Yesterday the Government announced that it will implement Dame Carol Black’s ‘Fit for Work’ proposals and replace sickness absence ’sick notes’ with ‘fit notes’, designed to describe what an employee can do and help them remain in work (1).
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Nov 27th 2008Drug InformationMental Health
There are over 1 million internally displaced persons (IDPs) in Uganda due to the 20-year conflict waged between a rebel group, the Lord’s Resistance Army, and the central government. Previous research on the health of IDPs has focused on specific physical and mental health conditions, but a study just published in the ‘online first’ section of the Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health (
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Nov 27th 2008Drug InformationMental Health
Today (26 November), mental health staff in the NHS and independent sector are being provided with targeted guidance developed to improve patient safety. This comes in the form of two new guidelines by the National Patient Safety Agency (NPSA). The first is an alert on the resuscitation of patients in mental health and learning disability settings.
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