At Dalhousie University, each of two 1 hour contact based-educational sessions involved two young adults with a diagnosis of bipolar disorder or schizophrenia.
The use of zero-hour contacts by universities is widespread and some may be using them to exploit staff, according to a teaching union.
The BBC used Freedom of Information requests sent to 18 councils in the west of England to determine how many people were employed on zero-hours contacts.
For those struggling to exist because of low pay, zero-hour contacts or delayed benefit payments, food banks aren't just helpful they're a lifeline.
Formally, out-of-hour contacts are the responsibility of the doctor on call in the region, but it does not work like that in practice; we know the patients and we welcome these phone calls.
The majority of all out of hours contacts were ambulatory doctor visits.
Contacts lasting at least 4 hours, contacts at school and at home were usually daily contacts (confidence 0.62, lift 1.7).
As outcome variables we studied: place of death, number of hospital admissions and number of GP out of hours contacts.
Not satisfied with your seven hours' contact time a week?
He'd spent the previous four hours contacting Haitian authorities, working to secure an S.N.O.
How you'll learn Classics students tend to get around 10 hours contact time with tutors through lectures or seminars.
