Implementing the National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence Head Injury 2014 Guidelines in a major children's hospital emergency department.

Objectives And Background: Head injury is a common paediatric emergency department presentation. The National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence updated its guidance in January 2014 regarding imaging required for adults and children following a head injury (CG176). This study looked at the rates of computed tomography (CT) head scans performed and adherence rates to CG176.

Is it fair for a junior doctor's deanery to be largely based on one test: a student's perspective.

The manner in which UK medical students are allocated foundation jobs is a controversial system. As medical students in the UK, we are subject to this system and have found students and junior doctors have varying opinions on it. Ultimately this led us to question, is this is a fair system?