Category: Medical News

Priory warns of dangers of work-related stress

February 3, 2010 by SallyPreston

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PRIORY WARNS OF DANGERS OF WORK-RELATED STRESS

3/2/10

Doctors at the Priory Group, the UK’s leading independent provider of mental healthcare, are advising businesses to make a New Year resolution to tackle stress at work.

The Health and Safety Executive’s official definition of work-related stress is "The adverse reaction people have to excessive pressures or other types of demand placed on them at work."

Cool-Tel online vaccine monitoring system provides protection which surpasses new NHS advice.

January 29, 2010 by neondrum

The alert (NPSA/2010/RRR008) issued on the 21st of January by the National Patient Safety Agency requires all NHS organisations to ensure that they implement appropriate procedures for monitoring and responding to alerts in vaccine cold storage by July 2010. For vaccines to be effective, it is important that they are stored within the temperature range recommended by manufacturers [+2°C to +8°C]. Cool-Tel systems quietly monitor and record the temperature of pharmacy fridges, or medicines in transit, across the UK and abroad 24 hours a day, 7 days a week.

Hitachi Consulting UK Enables London’s Primary Care Trusts to Monitor and Benchmark Performance via Online Portal Platform

January 11, 2010 by neondrum

Hitachi Consulting United Kingdom today announced that it has completed the delivery of a significant online portal project for Commissioning Support for London (CSL). The creation of the new secure online portal provides National Health Service (NHS) commissioners with access to a set of tools to help them monitor how their providers are performing.

Ben Receives Top Prize in Priory Essay Competition

January 8, 2010 by SallyPreston

BEN RECEIVES TOP PRIZE IN PRIORY ESSAY COMPETITION

8/1/10

18-year-old Ben Porter from Kent has scooped the top prize in a national literary competition.

The Priory Ryan McKay prize is awarded each year to the young person who submits the best non-fiction composition on a set topic related to mental and physical health. The subject for 2009 entries was ‘happy with the skin you are in’ and judges deemed that 18-year old Ben Porter’s entry was worthy of the £1,000 top prize.