Thanks Anna - I use the Healthy Working Lives service regularly - infact we just got a bronze award on one of my sites. It is a fatastic resourse for any OH students in Scotland! Georgina On Fri, Nov 26, 2010 at 7:13 AM, Anna <[log in to unmask]>wrote: > Hi > > Georgina - I am coming into this probably a bit late, but have you tried > the Healthy Working Lives service in Scotland. I have a long time a go had > experiences of working with them, and they were fantastic > > Anna Harrington > > ----- Original Message ----- > *From:* [log in to unmask] > *To:* [log in to unmask] > *Sent:* Thursday, November 25, 2010 9:38 PM > *Subject:* Re: [OCC-HEALTH] alternate practice for OH student > > Hello Georgina > > I would totally support students spending time with Travel clinics, family > planning (support of young workers), audiology (excellent idea) etc. > However, out of interest what did you gain from the breast feeding support > nurse? My experience of women returning to work after mat leave is that > either breast feeding is well established so they have no need of breast > feeding support – OR they have stopped breast feeding. Unfortunately, time > is money - in my days as the manager of an OHS you would have had to justify > to me a visit to a breast feeding adviser – if you couldn’t I would not have > supported such a visit in work time. > > Anne > > Anne Harriss > Course Director > London South Bank University > > > On 25/11/10 19:30, "Georgina Mills" <[log in to unmask]> wrote: > > I'm based in Scotland, but a few of the places I attended for my placements > were; > Travel Vaccination Clinic, Family Planning, Audiology Department NHS, > Occupational Hygiene, Occupational Physio, Local Breast Feeding support > nurse - I called round and they were all very accommodating. > > I hope that helps! > > G > > On Thu, Nov 25, 2010 at 9:57 AM, Chris Allan <[log in to unmask]> > wrote: > > Dear List, > > I'm looking for some alternate practice experiences for an OH student I'm > mentoring, she is based in London getting her practice experience in a West > London University. > > Any offers, advice or suggestions would be much appreciated. > > With best wishes to you all, > > Chris Allan > > ******************************** > Please remove this footer before replying. > > OCC-HEALTH ARCHIVES: > http://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/lists/occ-health.html > > CONFERENCES AND STUDY DAYS: > http://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/cgi-bin/filearea.cgi?LMGT1=OCC-HEALTH > > > ******************************** Please remove this footer before replying. > > > OCC-HEALTH ARCHIVES: http://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/lists/occ-health.html > > CONFERENCES AND STUDY DAYS: > http://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/cgi-bin/filearea.cgi?LMGT1=OCC-HEALTH > > > ******************************** Please remove this footer before replying. > > > OCC-HEALTH ARCHIVES: http://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/lists/occ-health.html > > CONFERENCES AND STUDY DAYS: > http://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/cgi-bin/filearea.cgi?LMGT1=OCC-HEALTH > > ******************************** Please remove this footer before replying. > > > OCC-HEALTH ARCHIVES: http://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/lists/occ-health.html > > CONFERENCES AND STUDY DAYS: > http://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/cgi-bin/filearea.cgi?LMGT1=OCC-HEALTH > ******************************** Please remove this footer before replying. OCC-HEALTH ARCHIVES: http://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/lists/occ-health.html CONFERENCES AND STUDY DAYS: http://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/cgi-bin/filearea.cgi?LMGT1=OCC-HEALTH