Health visitors in south Wales set to strike after NHS employer ignores job evaluation appeal
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Throughout the summer and since, debate has been raging about seven-day services in the NHS.
Jane Bates vows to come clean with the answers.
Every time I drive my car, it feels less like a journey and more like a guilt trip. It is my fault, of course.
The UK’s ageing population frames any debate about the future of the NHS.
I have spent many years working in higher education, and I know what an exciting time it is as another academic year begins.
The ethnic diversity of the NHS workforce is testament to both the global reach of the NHS and the society in which we live.
Jane Bates despairs at NHS bureaucracy.
Small portions are the next big thing.
I have been given some worrying information from a senior manager at my trust about a member of staff, but the manager has asked that
The nursing profession is constantly evolving to meet patient and population need, with nursing staff continually advancing their pra
To move forward in the future, you need to remember the past – where black nurses have come from and how far we have travelled.
Jane Bates is staying in denial a little longer.
Poor Dotty was listless. In fact, she had been so out of sorts that we were seriously worried. Barely one year old, she is the youngest and liveliest of our girls. But she had lost all her sparkle.
My department’s patient group directions are out of date. Does this mean that we are unable to use them?
With the NHS we have the best healthcare service in the world. It is ‘free at the point of need and accessible to all’, something that is sometimes taken for granted.
Having spent a number of years working as a district nursing sister, I remember the sheer frustration of not being able to get enough support for people who were in the last months of life.
Sometimes instinct takes over, says Jane Bates.
How old are you? Not the number of candles on your birthday cake; I’m talking about your actual, biological age.
