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Sometimes at interviews, you may be asked a question such as "Can you tell me about a current event in the world of healthcare, and what your opinion is of it?"

And some examples you could give might be:
- COVID-19 and it's impact on the NHS
- Brexit and it's impact on the NHS
- The debate around what treatment should be provided on the NHS, and what should be private

The table below provides some more course specific examples that you may wish to look into.

Course / Subject	Current events	website links
Dentistry / Dental Hygiene and Therapy	Phasing out of dental amalgam Fluoridation of water to reduce tooth decay	Dental amalgam use in the UK \| BDA Fluoride will be added to UK drinking water to cut tooth decay \| Health \| The Guardian
Medicine	Doctors prescribing patients outdoor exercise to improve their physical and mental health	Doctors to order a walk in the park under £4m ‘green prescriptions’ pilot (inews.co.uk)
Nursing	How virtual reality is being used to train nurses in remote hospital locations	Can gaming virtual reality help train north student nurses? (pressandjournal.co.uk)
Pharmacy	Billionaire aiming to eradicate polio	Eradicating Polio in Pakistan with the use of Vaccine Data - Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation
Radiology / Radiography	Use of artificial intelligence to help detect cancers	Autonomous X-ray-analyzing AI is cleared in the EU - The Verge
Speech and Language Therapy	How the pandemic has affected the social and communication skills of young children	Pandemic has delayed social skills of young children, says Ofsted chief \| Children \| The Guardian
Paramedic Sciences	How the ambulance service could be remodelled	How we remodelled England’s National Ambulance Service \| Research \| The University of Sheffield
Biomedical Sciences	Use of CRISPR technology	What is CRISPR-Cas9? \| Facts \| yourgenome.org
Orthoptics / Ophthalmology	NHS team develop way to save people's sight and also reduce waiting times	Hospital team’s pioneering vision is helping to save sight and cut waiting times – Swansea Bay News

The following webpages are also useful sources of information about healthcare news:
Homepage | BMJ Open

Health: News, updates & features - The Telegraph

Science | The Guardian