http://www.otjonline.com/ OTJONLINE News en-gb Tue, 15 Jul 2008 05:38 GMT Copyright: (C) Lawrand Ltd. 240 http://www.otjonline.com/images/lawrand_logo_sm.jpg http://www.otjonline.com/ Checkout the latest vacancies http://www.otjonline.com/jobs.php Thu, 04 Sep 2008 04:47 GMT Underpaid, overworked, and fed up with work - those are the rising feelings of millions of employees, according to a new survey carried out by the TUC. http://www.otjonline.com/news.php#20080904a Thu, 04 Sep 2008 04:47 GMT Richard Cox, operating department practitioner, has been struck off the HPC Register for failing to disclose his conviction to the HPC and his employer, Sandwell and West Birmingham NHS Trust. http://www.otjonline.com/news.php#20080904 Thu, 04 Sep 2008 04:47 GMT Additions and updates http://www.otjonline.com/links_other.php Sat, 30 Aug 2008 14:38 GMT Applicants are urged to apply now for the new Medical Technologies Foundation Degree from Eastwood Park, which goes beyond the level 3 NVQs previously available in servicing and the decontamination of medical equipment. The closing date is end of September for those wishing to start the degree this October (2008). http://www.otjonline.com/news.php#20080827b Wed, 27 Aug 2008 14:47 GMT Healthcare businesses which have technologies that could help prevent the spread of MRSA or other hospital bugs are being invited to attend an NHS roadshow. http://www.otjonline.com/news.php#20080827a Wed, 27 Aug 2008 14:47 GMT An impressive 185 Trusts and Organisations have now signed up to The Patient Safety First Campaign for England, pledging their support to an innovative campaign created to change the culture within the NHS; to one that ensures that the safety of patients is the highest priority, and works to eliminate all avoidable death and avoidable harm. http://www.otjonline.com/news.php#20080812a Tue, 12 Aug 2008 19:33 GMT The National Patient Safety Agency (NPSA) has issued a Rapid Response Report to healthcare professionals in England and Wales containing guidance on the prescription, distribution and administration of vinca alkaloids, a series of intravenous chemotherapy agents. http://www.otjonline.com/news.php#20080812 Tue, 12 Aug 2008 03:07 GMT AN INVESTIGATION has been launched after a member of staff was allegedly found collapsed in an operating theatre at an East Yorkshire hospital after apparently abusing drugs. http://www.otjonline.com/news.php#20080805 Tue, 05 Aug 2008 17:02 GMT Available for download long before the paper issue! 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Internet Explorer users, if you have problems downloading a journal please check your security settings within the browser. http://www.otjonline.com/ Sun, 03 Aug 2008 14:51 GMT The UKs biggest health service union is to try to renegotiate a pay deal for more than a million workers because of the increase in the cost of living. http://www.otjonline.com/news.php#20080801c Fri, 01 Aug 2008 16:44 GMT The Health Professions Council has today launched its consultation on the revised standards of education and training (SETs) and revised standards of education and training guidance. http://www.otjonline.com/news.php#20080801b Fri, 01 Aug 2008 16:44 GMT The National Patient Safety Agency (NPSA) has issued a Rapid Response Report to healthcare professionals in the UK to offer guidance for arterial line use following reports of problems with infusions and sampling. http://www.otjonline.com/news.php#20080801a Fri, 01 Aug 2008 16:44 GMT New focus on tackling the health of the teenage nation http://www.otjonline.com/news.php#20080715 Tue, 15 Jul 2008 05:38 GMT Can anything be more important than the safety of our patients? http://www.otjonline.com/news.php#20080711 Fri, 11 Jul 2008 17:31 GMT A new form of Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (CJD) may have been uncovered in a handful of patients in the US. http://www.otjonline.com/news.php#20080710b Thu, 10 Jul 2008 20:45 GMT Standards of cleanliness and food in NHS hospitals throughout England have improved according to the annual Patient Environment Action Team (PEAT) data for 2008, published by the National Patient Safety Agency (NPSA). http://www.otjonline.com/news.php#20080710a Thu, 10 Jul 2008 17:45 GMT The NHS has today taken a significant step towards greater patient choice with the publication of national operation survival rates. http://www.otjonline.com/news.php#20080710 Thu, 10 Jul 2008 15:36 GMT NHS unions have won a battle to compensate staff for rising fuel costs. http://www.otjonline.com/news.php#20080707 Mon, 07 Jul 2008 17:26 GMT The House of Lords European Union Committee has today welcomed EU proposals for a European directive on the quality and safety of organ donation and transplantation but has stressed that, in establishing minimum standards across Europe, the EU must not impose requirements beyond those which are clinically justifiable. http://www.otjonline.com/news.php#20080706b Sun, 06 Jul 2008 15:12 GMT Today a new guidance video will be available to all NHS trusts in England and Wales to educate and inform healthcare workers on the importance of good hand hygiene in preventing infection. http://www.otjonline.com/news.php#20080706a Sun, 06 Jul 2008 15:12 GMT Darzi: Giving patients more say and staff more freedom to shape high quality care round patients' needs. http://www.otjonline.com/news.php#20080630 Mon, 30 Jun 2008 16:48 GMT New research from the USA, published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, suggests that some anaesthetic agents could exacerbate pain by stimulating nerves to cause irritation long after the end of surgery. http://www.otjonline.com/news.php#20080629c Sun, 29 Jun 2008 16:38 GMT A hospital has recalled 96 patients because of concerns that they were treated with contaminated equipment. http://www.otjonline.com/news.php#20080629b Sun, 29 Jun 2008 16:38 GMT A safety checklist designed to cut the risk of surgical complications is to be circulated to doctors world-wide. http://www.otjonline.com/news.php#20080629a Sun, 29 Jun 2008 16:38 GMT The National Patient Safety Agencys (NPSAs) cleanyourhands campaign launches in Northern Ireland today in all acute Health and Social Care bodies. http://www.otjonline.com/news.php#20080625 Wed, 25 Jun 2008 17:33 GMT Thousands of health workers have overwhelmingly rejected the government's three-year 8% pay offer, the GMB union has said. http://www.otjonline.com/news.php#20080602c Mon, 02 Jun 2008 18:55 GMT More NHS operations were cancelled in England at the last minute in the first three months of the year compared to the same period in 2007, figures show. http://www.otjonline.com/news.php#20080602b Mon, 02 Jun 2008 18:52 GMT Plans to computerise the NHS in England could face further delays after a contract with a key supplier was terminated, the BBC has learned. http://www.otjonline.com/news.php#20080602a Mon, 02 Jun 2008 18:47 GMT Unite, the third largest union in the NHS, is to ballot its members on the proposed three-year NHS pay deal, with a recommendation for rejection. http://www.otjonline.com/news.php#20080602 Mon, 02 Jun 2008 05:40 GMT Up to 400 to go in London alone as plans are rolled out http://www.otjonline.com/news.php#20080529b Thu, 29 May 2008 18:24 GMT The government is preparing to publish for the first time the death rates of patients undergoing major surgery at NHS hospitals in England, the Guardian has learned. http://www.otjonline.com/news.php#20080529a Thu, 29 May 2008 17:55 GMT Patients in five English hospitals have been incorrectly diagnosed as being dead over the past five years, the BBC has discovered. http://www.otjonline.com/news.php#20080526 Mon, 26 May 2008 14:27 GMT A hospital trust has claimed to have eliminated MRSA bloodstream infections by stopping the routine practice of administering intravenous injections. http://www.otjonline.com/news.php#20080509c Fri, 9 May 2008 17:17 GMT Blood from more than 2,500 donors has had to be thrown away after a refrigeration unit broke down, costing the National Blood Service GBP350,000. http://www.otjonline.com/news.php#20080509b Fri, 9 May 2008 17:17 GMT Cases of a hospital superbug more difficult to treat than MRSA have soared by 40 per cent, experts are warning. http://www.otjonline.com/news.php#20080509a Fri, 9 May 2008 17:17 GMT Five pledges will ensure that change is transparent and driven by the best evidence http://www.otjonline.com/news.php#20080509 Fri, 9 May 2008 04:59 GMT Operating theatres are being thrown into chaos and operations cancelled because of broken, missing or dirty surgical instruments, surgeons say. http://www.otjonline.com/news.php#20080425 Fri, 25 Apr 2008 06:23 GMT Health workers, not accountants, should be recruited, says Unite. http://www.otjonline.com/news.php#20080422 Tue, 22 Apr 2008 17:33 GMT The Health Professions Council (HPC) has launched a three month consultation to invite stakeholders for their views on its proposed fees increase for 2009. http://www.otjonline.com/news.php#20080415 Tue, 15 Apr 2008 20:01 GMT NHS staff report improvements in infection control, support from managers and high levels of job satisfaction and training opportunities http://www.otjonline.com/news.php#20080409 Wed, 09 Apr 2008 06:01 GMT Health Secretary Alan Johnson today announced that the Department had agreed with NHS Employers, UNISON and the Royal College of Nursing (RCN) a proposed three-year pay package for all NHS Agenda for Change (AfC) staff http://www.otjonline.com/news.php#20080407d Mon, 07 Apr 2008 16:45 GMT Health workers and local authorities throughout the country are being encouraged to play their part in tackling the health effects of climate change, Public Health Minister Dawn Primarolo announced today http://www.otjonline.com/news.php#20080407c Mon, 07 Apr 2008 16:32 GMT Bosses at Salford Royal Hospital have announced plans to cut the number of deaths on its wards by 1,000 over the next three years. http://www.otjonline.com/news.php#20080407b Mon, 07 Apr 2008 16:25 GMT NEW YORK Two patients died and two are undergoing chemotherapy after receiving organs from a teenager who died of cancer, US authorities said. http://www.otjonline.com/news.php#20080407a Mon, 07 Apr 2008 16:21 GMT Issue 16 of HPC In Focus is now available http://www.otjonline.com/news.php#20080405c Sat, 05 Apr 2008 11:12 GMT The first case of human-to-human transmission of avian flu in Pakistan has been confirmed. http://www.otjonline.com/news.php#20080405b Sat, 05 Apr 2008 09:25 GMT Three more deaths have been linked to the hospital bug Clostridium difficile in hospitals in the Northern Trust area. http://www.otjonline.com/news.php#20080405a Sat, 05 Apr 2008 09:25 GMT The number of local health boards (LHBs) in Wales could be cut from 22 to eight under proposals unveiled by the Welsh Assembly Government. http://www.otjonline.com/news.php#20080403b Thu, 03 Apr 2008 10:05 GMT An NHS hospital trust which has a GBP7.5m surplus in its budget is coming under fire for its decision to give every full-time member of staff a GBP250 bonus. http://www.otjonline.com/news.php#20080403a Thu, 03 Apr 2008 10:05 GMT Operating department practitioner, Alan Sutheran has been struck off the HPC Register after a panel of the Conduct and Competence Committee met to review a suspension order previously imposed on him. http://www.otjonline.com/news.php#20080328b Fri, 28 Mar 2008 12:05 GMT Technology can play a vital role in this, providing opportunities for patients to manage their own conditions and access information about their health. http://www.otjonline.com/news.php#20080328a Fri, 28 Mar 2008 11:50 GMT Yeovil Academy http://www.otjonline.com/links_training.php Mon, 24 Mar 2008 15:20 GMT The nurse and midwives regulatory body has an ingrained culture of "racism and bullying", an MP says. http://www.otjonline.com/news.php#20080311 Tue, 11 Mar 2008 18:50 GMT A landmark judgment in favour of a Lancashire maintenance technician, which means he will receive almost GBP7,000 in back pay under a NHS national agreement, has 'undermined' a 'stubborn' NHS trust in Doncaster. http://www.otjonline.com/news.php#20080308a Sat, 08 Mar 2008 13:50 GMT A Hertfordshire teenager refused a knee operation - after surgeons told him there could be a dead rat in the operating theatre. http://www.otjonline.com/news.php#20080308 Sat, 08 Mar 2008 11:58 GMT E-learning specialists Course-Source are offering senior learning professionals from within the NHS and the private sector a chance to discover how to maximise e-learning initiatives for clinical services and healthcare organisations. http://www.otjonline.com/news.php#20080306b Thu, 06 Mar 2008 14:20 GMT Patients admitted for day surgery have compared it to going for a meal at McDonald's, according to a study by an academic from the University of Salford. http://www.otjonline.com/news.php#20080306a Thu, 06 Mar 2008 14:20 GMT A former NHS chief whose trust was hit by a superbug scandal is now working for a consultancy and running a review at two hospitals in Surrey and London. http://www.otjonline.com/news.php#20080303b Mon, 03 Mar 2008 18:40 GMT Patients, staff and visitors will be able to park for free at almost every NHS hospital in Wales by the end of 2011, it will be announced later. http://www.otjonline.com/news.php#20080303a Mon, 03 Mar 2008 18:40 GMT Surgery is being cancelled, sometimes as patients lie anaesthetised, after outside cleaning firms return theatre equipment unsterile and broken. http://www.otjonline.com/news.php#20080302 Sun, 02 Mar 2008 11:59 GMT Hospital bosses have taken action against more than 50 hospital workers over the sending of an obscene e-mail. http://www.otjonline.com/news.php#20080227b Wed, 27 Feb 2008 08:49 GMT Demonstration of an operation without anaesthetics or antiseptics! http://www.otjonline.com/news.php#20080227a Wed, 27 Feb 2008 08:49 GMT Thousands of new NHS smartcards giving computer access to patient details have already gone missing, raising fresh fears over the security of the Government's IT programme, Pulse can reveal. http://www.otjonline.com/news.php#20080207 Thu, 07 Feb 2008 06:49 GMT An operating department practitioner has been struck off the HPC Register after being convicted of theft of controlled drugs. In July 2007 at Wood Green Court Benjamin Lavender was sentenced to 51 weeks imprisonment suspended for two years. http://www.otjonline.com/news.php#20080205 Tue, 05 Feb 2008 18:55 GMT Hospitals have paid over GBP120 an hour for agency workers to cover for gaps in staffing, according to latest figures. http://www.otjonline.com/news.php#20080204 Mon, 04 Feb 2008 18:55 GMT Thousands of theatre nurses and perioperative staff are being asked for their experiences of new decontamination procedures. http://www.otjonline.com/news.php#20080131 Thu, 31 Jan 2008 06:55 GMT Government targets could be partly to blame as hospitals agree to tackle management abuse. http://www.otjonline.com/news.php#20080129 Tue, 29 Jan 2008 08:55 GMT Creating a world-class NHS which prevents illness as well as improves quality of care, moved a step closer today as NHS staff, patients and members of the public came together to discuss emerging themes from the Our NHS Our Future review led by Lord Darzi. http://www.otjonline.com/news.php#20080125b Fri, 25 Jan 2008 18:55 GMT A GROUP of NHS staff could be balloted for industrial action because they are owed up to GBP20,000 each by their employers. http://www.otjonline.com/news.php#20080125a Fri, 25 Jan 2008 18:45 GMT New measures must be taken to protect healthcare workers from healthcare acquired infections such as MRSA, according to a report to be adopted today by the European Parliament. http://www.otjonline.com/news.php#20080115 Tue, 15 Jan 2008 17:55 GMT Health Secretary unveils new infection control strategy http://www.otjonline.com/news.php#20080109 Wed, 09 Jan 2008 06:55 GMT Hospital staff are breaching basic hygiene rules designed to fight deadly superbugs, an Evening Standard investigation has found. http://www.otjonline.com/news.php#20080108 Tue, 08 Jan 2008 18:06 GMT An audit of NHS staff in Scottish hospitals suggests they wash their hands between 70% and 80% of the time. http://www.otjonline.com/news.php#20080102 Wed, 02 Jan 2008 17:19 GMT An audit of NHS staff in Scottish hospitals suggests they wash their hands between 70% and 80% of the time. http://www.otjonline.com/news2007.php#20071228 Fri, 28 Dec 2007 10:50 GMT Heart transplants in Scotland have been suspended after an increase in patient deaths. http://www.otjonline.com/news2007.php#20071221c Fri, 21 Dec 2007 18:50 GMT Car parking charges at hospitals across Scotland will be capped at 3GBP per day in the New Year, it has been announced. http://www.otjonline.com/news2007.php#20071221b Fri, 21 Dec 2007 18:43 GMT A surgeon at a prestigious US hospital is facing a disciplinary hearing after he allegedly took a photo of a patient's penis during an operation. http://www.otjonline.com/news2007.php#20071221a Fri, 21 Dec 2007 18:38 GMT Make sure your copy makes it in time. http://www.otjonline.com/publicationdates.php Mon, 17 Dec 2007 18:55 GMT Christmas is coming and the goose is getting fat. And here's The Information Centre with a few festive facts http://www.otjonline.com/news2007.php#20071217b Mon, 17 Dec 2007 17:54 GMT Here follows a summary of the decisions made at the Council meeting held on Thursday 13 December http://www.otjonline.com/news2007.php#20071217a Mon, 17 Dec 2007 17:40 GMT Working Time Directive - The SiMap ruling http://www.otjonline.com/links_doh.php Mon, 17 Dec 2007 17:20 GMT Eight patients at hospitals in Surrey and south London have been operated on with potentially contaminated instruments, it has been revealed. http://www.otjonline.com/news2007.php#20071206 Thu, 06 Dec 2007 16:55 GMT