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01 August 2017This free service is available to SOM members for all your occupational health and medicine legal queries.
The service covers legal issues arising from your Occupational Health practice, so may cover employment law or legal queries such as consent, confidentiality, report writing etc.
Advice is available via email. Your enquiry...
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18 July 2017Dr Paul Williams (main picture) is the new President of the Society of Occupational Medicine.
Paul graduated from Leeds Medical School in 1987 and worked as a junior hospital doctor in Bradford, Leeds, York and Northumberland before becoming a full time Leicester GP in 1992. He is a member of the Royal College of General Practitioners....
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14 June 2017The SOM offer insurance-based indemnity policy for nurses who work in occupational health and who are SOM members. Nurses have been legally obliged to have indemnity cover since the Government introduced the requirement for all healthcare professionals in July 2014. The Nursing and Midwifery Code: Standards of conduct, performance and ethics...
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01 June 2017April 2017 saw SOM CEO Nick Pahl travel to America to take part in the American College of Occupational and Environmental Medicine (ACOEM) Conference in Denver. In a new blog on Personnel Today, Nick reports back on the key debates. To...
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31 May 2017Members of the Society of Occupational Medicine are entitled to 40% discount on subscriptions to Occupational Health & Wellbeing journal (£107 for one year). Don’t miss this opportunity to receive the monthly publication, now approaching its 70th year, an essential source of news, comment, analysis and authoritative articles on the evidence...
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23 May 2017Edited by SOM international group chair, Dr Will Ponsonby, this new issue highlights that globally, an estimated 2.3 million workers die every year from occupational accidents and work- related diseases; this equates to 6,300 deaths daily. In addition, over 300 million workers have non-fatal occupational accidents resulting in disability and...
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17 May 2017A new report published today by the Society of Occupational Medicine sets out the value proposition for occupational health services and the benefits of occupational health.
Occupational health: the value proposition cites evidence that shows organisations most commonly rank occupational health involvement as the most effective...
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09 May 2017Occupational Health 2017 Conference, hosted by SOM and FOM. June 26th-28th Leeds
This new multi-disciplinary scientific conference for Occupational Health professionals will be held at the Royal Armouries in Leeds at the end of June. Changes have been made to previous conferences in response to feedback, so the main...
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16 March 2017Dear Members,
Please find a presentation attached that was given by our Chief Executive Nick Pahl during the Health and Wellbeing At Work Conference in Birmingham, March 7th-8th 2017.
The presentation discusses the current policy environment for OH; including...
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Title: Renewals FAQ
15 February 2017Welcome to the new SOM website! In order to renew your membership and access the full benefits of the members area, please follow the steps below.
How to renew?
- Creating a website login and filling in the renewals form. These are both done on the same page,...