One in six adults has neurotic disorder
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Additional training should be given to nurses and general practitioners (GPs) to deal with people suffering with psychiatric disorders after it emerged that one in six adults in the UK has a neurotic disorder. The Office for National Statistics survey commissioned by the Department of Health and released on 1 July 1998 found that mixed anxiety and depression was the most prevalent disorder among the 10,000 people quizzed. One in four people experiencing mental illness had not sought professional help while less than 1% had suicidal notions during the week gone by. One in 40 of those surveyed was reliant on drugs while one in 20 had encountered symptoms associated with being dependent on alcohol. Neurotic disorders were 50% more likely to afflict town-dwellers than those living in rural regions, while drug dependence among those people out of work was far greater than normal.
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UK: Additional training should be given to nurses & general practitioners to deal w/ people suffering w/ psychiatric disorders
Publication Name: The Independent
Subject: Retail industry
ISSN: 0951-9467
Year: 1998
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UK: GOVERNMENT PLANS NHS DISCIPLINARY BODY
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The UK government plans to create a single National Health service (NHS) disciplinary body, which will cover all the professions, as part of its blueprint for the NHS that it will launch next week. This follows the passing in June 2000 of a no confidence vote in the working of the General Medical Council (GMC) by the British Medical Association. The government wishes to merge the roles of the GMC and the UK Central Council for Nurses, Midwives and Health Visitors (UKCC), which may eventually see dentists, physiotherapists and pharmacists covered by a single organisation. Public confidence in the GMC has been damaged by the Bristol baby heart surgery case in 1998 and by the case of the GP and serial murderer Harold Shipman.
Publication Name: The Independent
Subject: Retail industry
ISSN: 0951-9467
Year: 2000
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UK: DOCTORS AND NURSES AT RISK OF SUICIDE
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Doctors and nurses are more likely to commit suicide than the general population of Britain. Doctors were almost twice as likely to take their own lives while nurses were at 50% greater risk. The suicide rate amongst nurses was 11 per 100,000 and 13.5 per 100,000 for doctors between 1991 and 1998. The average suicide rate was seven per 100,000. The pressures of stress and isolation cause depression and drive people to take their own lives. The medical professions also have access to the means for suicide.
Publication Name: The Independent
Subject: Retail industry
ISSN: 0951-9467
Year: 2000
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