Comment

Throughout the summer and since, debate has been raging about seven-day services in the NHS.

14 Oct 2015

Jane Bates vows to come clean with the answers.

14 Oct 2015

Every time I drive my car, it feels less like a journey and more like a guilt trip. It is my fault, of course.

14 Oct 2015

The UK’s ageing population frames any debate about the future of the NHS.

14 Oct 2015

I have spent many years working in higher education, and I know what an exciting time it is as another academic year begins.

07 Oct 2015

The ethnic diversity of the NHS workforce is testament to both the global reach of the NHS and the society in which we live.

07 Oct 2015

Jane Bates despairs at NHS bureaucracy.

07 Oct 2015

Small portions are the next big thing.

07 Oct 2015

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

07 Oct 2015

The nursing profession is constantly evolving to meet patient and population need, with nursing staff continually advancing their pra

30 Sep 2015

To move forward in the future, you need to remember the past – where black nurses have come from and how far we have travelled.

30 Sep 2015

Jane Bates is staying in denial a little longer.

30 Sep 2015

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.

30 Sep 2015

My department’s patient group directions are out of date. Does this mean that we are unable to use them?

30 Sep 2015

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.

23 Sep 2015

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.

23 Sep 2015

Sometimes instinct takes over, says Jane Bates.

23 Sep 2015

How old are you? Not the number of candles on your birthday cake; I’m talking about your actual, biological age.

23 Sep 2015

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