Health visitors in south Wales set to strike after NHS employer ignores job evaluation appeal
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Nursing student Charlotte Humm explains why the demise of the NHS student bursary will be devastating for nursing students, the profession – and patients
The Five Year Forward View for health services in England calls for gaps in health and wellbeing to be closed.
Among the wide-ranging effects of cancer lies the damage to people’s financial position, especially at Christmas.
Don’t forget about staff health, says Jane Bates.
Today is shaping up nicely. It is cold and windy, and the sky looks so ghastly that we expect a plague of locusts by lunchtime.
You couldn’t make it up part one: a ‘tough on immigration’ government yields to employer pressure and enables higher levels of intern
Leading nurse academic Linda Aiken presented research from a major international workforce study at a safe staffing symposium at the
At the chief nursing officer (CNO) for England’s summit next week, I will be speaking during a session on developing and retaining th
Jane Bates tackles the scary revalidation tales.
Everyone loves my French beans with black mustard, garlic and chilli flakes.
Research by the national learning disability charity FitzRoy has found that families of people with learning disabilities would get better services if social care staff were bet
The momentous decision to introduce revalidation marks the start of a new era for the UK’s 690,000 nurses and midwives, in which they
When former chief medical officer for Scotland Sir Harry Burns was a surgeon at Glasgow Royal Infirmary, he discovered that shipyard workers took around two days longer than others to heal following surgery.
Perhaps we’ve all had enough says Jane Bates.
It is just what you need on a Saturday night – an old friend telling your wife that she is lopsided.
Wendy Durham and Chris Sykes explain conceptual frameworks and how they are used in nursing research
Last month we celebrated the reversal of migration laws that would have forced thousands of talented nurses from outside the European Economic Area to leave the country.
The profile that dementia has secured in the UK over the past five years is surely good news. We are told that record numbers of staff are completing some form of dementia training, and dementia networks and friends are seemingly everywhere.
