Isn't the first priority getting the specifically OH specialty right? Of course there is a wider remit which OH practitioners are well-qualified and able to fulfil. And of course the field is not the same thing as the health professionals working within it. But the UK is doing much less in terms of practice than other countries, we have worse access to OH by the working population, we have a small, and getting smaller, research base, and scandalously few teachers of OH in nursing schools, medical schools and elsewhere. The OH speciality might be a small part, but it is vital, in the same way that a keystone of an arch is a small part of the whole but it holds it all together.
Kate
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