Surviving your first night shift

The NHS is a 24-hour service, which means night shifts are an unavoidable fact of working life. Susan Field speaks to Dr Michael Farquhar, consultant in paediatric sleep medicine, about the dangers of working when fatigued and how you can prepare for working nights.

In a high pressure environment where you can change lives in a heartbeat, we owe it to ourselves and our patients to take sleep seriously.

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