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  1. Lucy Hawkins
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    Sham orthosis

    Presumably to compare results you need to use a standardised shoe as well, with a sole of known stiffness and shock attenuation, or at least...
    Post by: Lucy Hawkins, Dec 20, 2014 in forum: Biomechanics, Sports and Foot orthoses
  2. Lucy Hawkins
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    Nail surgery fees

    When I last checked with BUPA they were charging around £1,800. The private fee is cheep, we have costs and overheads the NHS pod never sees.
    Post by: Lucy Hawkins, Nov 15, 2014 in forum: United Kingdom
  3. Lucy Hawkins
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    Cleaning the exam room air

    For a different view, open the b....... windows. link:...
    Post by: Lucy Hawkins, Dec 12, 2013 in forum: Practice Management
  4. Lucy Hawkins
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    NHS reform, what it means for private practitioners

    An alternative view might be that a GP provider will bid for podiatry from his colleague a GP commissioner. Then the practice nurse could do all...
    Post by: Lucy Hawkins, Mar 8, 2012 in forum: United Kingdom
  5. Lucy Hawkins
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    narrow shoes in UK?

    In the South East of England there is Railton Ward shoes in Findon Village just outside Worthing. They have customers from all over the South...
    Post by: Lucy Hawkins, Mar 6, 2012 in forum: United Kingdom
  6. Lucy Hawkins
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    Use of a residental property for clinical use

    Hi # I think there is some misunderstanding here in the UK. A change of use requires planning permission, period. If you have a room and use a...
    Post by: Lucy Hawkins, Jan 27, 2012 in forum: Practice Management
  7. Lucy Hawkins
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    Applying to Brighton Uni- Help needed please?!

    Hi jj I had the opportunity to speak to a member of the course staff this evening. As I understand it the course has three days of contact time...
    Post by: Lucy Hawkins, Jan 24, 2012 in forum: Teaching and Learning
  8. Lucy Hawkins
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    Use of a residental property for clinical use

    Hi You need to check the deeds of the property as many have a standard clause prohibiting carrying on any business activity. Though I believe...
    Post by: Lucy Hawkins, Jan 23, 2012 in forum: Practice Management
  9. Lucy Hawkins
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    Applying to Brighton Uni- Help needed please?!

    Hi jj, I am sure someone else will be along soon with more uptodate information but a dozen years ago you only got Wednesday afternoons off. An...
    Post by: Lucy Hawkins, Jan 23, 2012 in forum: Teaching and Learning
  10. Lucy Hawkins
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    Contacting patients of current employer when setting up new clinic

    I have come across a number of instances of this practice and discuses it with others. When this happens it seems that the employee or associate...
    Post by: Lucy Hawkins, Oct 6, 2011 in forum: Practice Management
  11. Lucy Hawkins
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    Business Cards

    I think appointments on the back is quite normal. Occasionally I have come across one folded, appointments in the middle and blurb or directions...
    Post by: Lucy Hawkins, Oct 6, 2011 in forum: Practice Management
  12. Lucy Hawkins
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    Marigold therapy for bunions. An RCT

    Hi I tried to post a reply earlier but the wretched machine logged me out and the post was lost in the ether. To summarise: I have no bones...
    Post by: Lucy Hawkins, Jun 14, 2011 in forum: Podiatry Trivia
  13. Lucy Hawkins
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    Marigold therapy for bunions. An RCT

    "Homoeopathy is a form of alternative medicine in which practitioners treat patients using highly diluted... preparations that are believed to...
    Post by: Lucy Hawkins, Jun 14, 2011 in forum: Podiatry Trivia
  14. Lucy Hawkins
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    Vasaline in Wound Care

    A patient came to my surgery and apologised for her weepy leg. It transpired that she had had curettage for a benign skin lesion at the local...
    Thread by: Lucy Hawkins, Apr 3, 2011, 4 replies, in forum: General Issues and Discussion Forum
  15. Lucy Hawkins
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    Is there a place for tea tree oil in foot care?

    Blinda I was anticipating Mark would be along. Cheers
    Post by: Lucy Hawkins, Apr 3, 2011 in forum: General Issues and Discussion Forum
  16. Lucy Hawkins
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    Independent Prescribing for Podiatrists

    It may not help with the legalise but there is an MSc course for AHP Independent Prescribing being run by the Royal Society of Medicine and the...
    Post by: Lucy Hawkins, Apr 3, 2011 in forum: United Kingdom
  17. Lucy Hawkins
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    Is there a place for tea tree oil in foot care?

    When discussing this with members of my local NHS trust they said that they cannot use or recomennnnd the use of TTO. All treatments they give...
    Post by: Lucy Hawkins, Apr 3, 2011 in forum: General Issues and Discussion Forum
  18. Lucy Hawkins
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    Should 12 months NHS be mandatory

    Bill Sorry, I had no intention to be political. Please feel free to insert Institute in the post wherever you like, and anyone else can put...
    Post by: Lucy Hawkins, Feb 25, 2011 in forum: United Kingdom
  19. Lucy Hawkins
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    Should 12 months NHS be mandatory

    Hi again, I think this is a professional issue and it might be doable. The object being to raise standards within the profession. The...
    Post by: Lucy Hawkins, Feb 25, 2011 in forum: United Kingdom
  20. Lucy Hawkins
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    Should 12 months NHS be mandatory

    Money, it's all about money. Some NHS managers have funded training places for new graduates others don't. My own local trust got rid of all...
    Post by: Lucy Hawkins, Feb 23, 2011 in forum: United Kingdom
  21. Lucy Hawkins
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    Podiatry referral costs in NHS for GP's

    Hi Richie I don't know what it cost a GP as part of their practise but last I heard was that podiatry has a tariff of £42 per...
    Post by: Lucy Hawkins, Oct 23, 2010 in forum: United Kingdom
  22. Lucy Hawkins
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    Mosaic verrucae-help with treatment

    Hi. I Had two patients in this morning with VP's of long standing. I needled both and will let you know whether they resolve. The first...
    Post by: Lucy Hawkins, May 21, 2010 in forum: General Issues and Discussion Forum
  23. Lucy Hawkins
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    Potential for Growth in PP

    Hi Thanks for the replies. I don't think the idea is dead, the commissioners have to get the best value for the public. The National tariff...
    Post by: Lucy Hawkins, May 14, 2010 in forum: United Kingdom
  24. Lucy Hawkins
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    Potential for Growth in PP

    Hi I posted this on the society site but am not holding my breath. Published in the May edition of the dental journal "The Probe" Hazel...
    Thread by: Lucy Hawkins, May 14, 2010, 9 replies, in forum: United Kingdom
  25. Lucy Hawkins
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    Uses of friars balsam

    Friars Balsam was used at Brighton up until 2000, I don't know why thy stopped. I use it for nail packing. Cotton wool + TBCo packing for...
    Post by: Lucy Hawkins, May 1, 2010 in forum: General Issues and Discussion Forum
  26. Lucy Hawkins
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    Has anyone gone from Podiatry to a Medical career?

    Hi I'm not sure how to edit posts here so I'll post again. It was Katie not Kate Glennon now Doctor Glennon, She completed an access to...
    Post by: Lucy Hawkins, Nov 24, 2009 in forum: United Kingdom
  27. Lucy Hawkins
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    Has anyone gone from Podiatry to a Medical career?

    Hi I think it was Kate Glennon who worked with David Spellman at Neat Feet in Brighton (UK) who went on to Medical Training. I spoke to her...
    Post by: Lucy Hawkins, Nov 23, 2009 in forum: United Kingdom
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    Entonox (nitrous oxide)

    Hi C Bain and others, Difficult to parse early Saturday morning. Dentist in the UK cannot give GA for the reasons stated. Dentists do use...
    Post by: Lucy Hawkins, Jan 24, 2009 in forum: General Issues and Discussion Forum
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    Entonox (nitrous oxide)

    Hi G Flanagan and others, My tame dentist has not been available this morning and so I rang Mr Swithern a BDA man who teaches and inspects...
    Post by: Lucy Hawkins, Jan 23, 2009 in forum: General Issues and Discussion Forum
  30. Lucy Hawkins
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    Entonox (nitrous oxide)

    Hi. G Flanagan I asked about the dentist rules and procedures for the administration of entonox not IV sedation. I will get this clarified...
    Post by: Lucy Hawkins, Jan 22, 2009 in forum: General Issues and Discussion Forum
  31. Lucy Hawkins
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    Entonox (nitrous oxide)

    Hi An update on my last post. I spoke to the tame dentist here this morning to ask how they get on with entonox sedation. If a dentist...
    Post by: Lucy Hawkins, Jan 22, 2009 in forum: General Issues and Discussion Forum
  32. Lucy Hawkins
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    Entonox (nitrous oxide)

    Hi As soon as you sedate patients you are going to have to have a nurse/assistant present in the room with you as a chaperon. Dentists have to...
    Post by: Lucy Hawkins, Jan 22, 2009 in forum: General Issues and Discussion Forum
  33. Lucy Hawkins
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    Charges made for nail surgery UK.

    snowstorm The dentists have been able to build their practice up on the back of the Dental Act which protects all work carried out in the...
    Post by: Lucy Hawkins, Sep 2, 2006 in forum: United Kingdom
  34. Lucy Hawkins
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    Charges made for nail surgery UK.

    Nail surgery Hi When I looked into it about six years age the local Nuffield Hospital charger about £120 to see the consultant then £600 for a...
    Post by: Lucy Hawkins, Sep 1, 2006 in forum: United Kingdom
  35. Lucy Hawkins
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    UK Podiatry & Diagnostic Ultrasound

    Diagnostic Imaging Hi A bit off topic but today I learnt that you can get an private MRI on one part of the body, say foot or knee for £395....
    Post by: Lucy Hawkins, Mar 17, 2005 in forum: United Kingdom
  36. Lucy Hawkins
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    Agenda for Change

    'the sum total wage bill could be less' Possibly, but the output was increased. Individual pay was less, training cost were less as the work...
    Post by: Lucy Hawkins, Feb 26, 2005 in forum: United Kingdom
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    Cleaning the exam room air

    Dust Hi I have an air-conditioning unit on the wall. It collected a lot of nail dust so I fitted it with a pollen filter. That gets clogged...
    Post by: Lucy Hawkins, Feb 23, 2005 in forum: Practice Management
  38. Lucy Hawkins
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    Advice for longstanding verruca?

    'I combine it with an oral regimen of 300 mg daily of cimetidine(tigamet) for two weeks.' Cimetidine is not licensed in the UK for viral warts....
    Post by: Lucy Hawkins, Dec 27, 2004 in forum: General Issues and Discussion Forum
  39. Lucy Hawkins
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    Undergraduate education

    A tad Off Thread Felicity Going to conference this year cost over £500 (UK) in direct costs, not including loss of earnings. That gives me...
    Post by: Lucy Hawkins, Dec 9, 2004 in forum: Teaching and Learning
  40. Lucy Hawkins
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    Foot Pressure Mat Warning

    Ian This suggests some limitations. In Shoe Force Measurements - The Best Thing Since Sliced Bread Luke Hawkins
    Post by: Lucy Hawkins, Dec 2, 2004 in forum: Biomechanics, Sports and Foot orthoses
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