Improvements in patient safety result primarily from organisational and individual learning.
This paper discusses the learning that can take place within organisations and the cultural …

The importance of good leadership is becoming increasingly apparent within health care. This
paper reviews evidence which shows that it has effects, not only on financial management…

… It has been described at length elsewhere (Brewin and Firth-Cozens, in press). However,
the data from the present study were seen as particularly sensitive, and so the questions were …

Presents an integrative model for a central aspect of change in psychotherapy. According to
the assimilation model, clients in successful psychotherapy follow a regular sequence in …

… patient care is likely to be much greater (Firth-Cozens, 1993). This paper discusses findings
… In J. Firth-Cozens & RL Payne, Stress in health professionals (pp. 191–202). Chichester, UK…

In a study of 170 junior house officers who were followed up from their fourth year in medical
school mean levels of stress were higher than in other reported occupational groups, and …

… The SCL depression sub‐scale has also been used by Firth‐Cozens, in studies of a cohort
of … Firth‐Cozens J. Levels and Sources of Stress in Anaesthetists. Report to Association of …

Junior doctors, and to a lesser extent medical students, suffer higher rates of stress and
depression than the general population. While some of the causes of these problems may lie …

Countless studies of the levels and sources of stress in doctors have taken place in the UK
over the past 20 years. My own longitudinal study, begun with students in 1983, 1 was in …

OBJECTIVES To identify determinants of sickness absence in hospital physicians. METHODS
The Poisson regression analyses of short (1–3 days) and long (>3 days) recorded spells …