BAH to your obesity campaigns and pfft on your workplace smoking bans. It’s some NHS personnel departments that we should be keeping an eye on if we want to improve public health. It goes like this: more public health nurses means more advice for the rest of us on topics such as how not to fall over and whether we have chlamydia, which should mean fewer broken hips and more babies. Of course, these nurses aren’t self-replicating, so it’s up to someone to hire them. This is where problems can come into play, reports Public Health News (June 20). While application packs and formal interviews are challenging enough on their own, some candidates (and employers) have had to jump extra hurdles, including: