Chuka Umunna
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Jamie Bartlett
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B.J. Epstein
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Dr Peter Bruggen
: Sir David Nicholson Resigns but if Many Bad Apples Remain, The NHS Might Be Rotten to the Core
The Mid Staffs report gave nursing a considerable shake, but those bad eggs are not representative of the nursing population, and certainly not of my mother.
NHS managers responsible for their hospitals' failures will be "struck off" and barred from working in the health service and under-performing hospita...
Today, when nurses are being urged, in effect, to go back to school and retrain, the implication is that the more recent scandals were all the fault of nurses. Why? Presumably because they are easier to pick on: mostly female, further down the pecking order and therefore less powerful.
An academic has criticised "YouTube culture" for reinforcing sexist stereotypes of nurses and urged health professionals to upload their own real-life...
We are on the eve of an earthquake in the National Health Service. On 6 February, Robert Francis QC, will present his report into what Health secretary Jeremy Hunt has described as "perhaps the most shocking betrayal of NHS founding values in its history".
Like many nurses, I left the NHS because I found it practically impossible to be able to deliver a good standard of care due to what I call the 'constant revolution' within the health service.
A number of surveys of the general population have shown that, if we had the choice, most of us would prefer to die at home if we were terminally ill.
A nurse has admitted administering an overdose of salt to a baby who later died, a medical tribunal heard. The concentration of sodium chloride was...
Nurses are being forced to clean toilets and mop hospital floors on top of their patient care duties, a new survey has found. More than half of NHS...
The national consent rate for organ donation from the relatives of the terminally ill is around 60% and with three people in the United Kingdom dying every day because of lack of tissue and organs, it's up to specialist organ donation nurses to try and increase the numbers.
The NHS is at breaking point, the Royal College of Nursing has warned on Monday. With nursing positions at risk of being axed, the union said the ...
Nursing leaders have called for a halt to the loss of hospital beds after a study revealed that patients were being left on trolleys for hours on end ...
Patients are being put in danger by hospitals allowing junior nurses to take on jobs they are not trained to do, including looking after intensive car...
Nurses will be told to undertake hourly ward rounds while members of the public will be allowed to inspect hospitals, under plans announced by the Pri...
What do prayer, unconditional love, forgiveness, life's meaning and purpose, and spiritual practice have in common? They are five Spiritual Concepts ...
More than 56,000 NHS jobs have been lost or face the axe - double the figure of a year ago, nursing leaders have said as they warned of an impending "...
Dirty equipment and dusty floors found in a hospital raised "significant concerns" over cleanliness following an unannounced visit by inspec...
The solution to the problem of feeding elderly patients is not to prop the system up with relatives, it is keeping them out of hospital.
