Susan Osborne: Safe nurse staffing ratios must be mandated across the globe
Staff shortages and cuts to nurse leadership are worldwide problems for the nursing...
25 Oct 2017
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Josie Irwin: Government must fund above-inflation pay award, not pass the buck
The scrapping of the 1% pay cap shows that Jeremy Hunt has listened to nurses. But this does...
23 Oct 2017
Brian Webster-Henderson: Remove the barriers to nurse research
Nurses and allied health professionals are far less likely than doctors or pharmacists to...
19 Oct 2017
Joanne Bosanquet and Rose Gallagher: We must work together to prevent infection
To mark International Infection Prevention Week, specialists are calling on health...
16 Oct 2017
Jane Bates: Constipation is nothing to be embarrassed about
Dispatched to the pharmacy for medication to ease a friend’s bowel problems, Jane Bates...
16 Oct 2017
Jane Bates: Does the public really want a 24-hour NHS?
With 8am surgery seen as too early a start, and evening appointments deemed too late, round-...
11 Oct 2017
Caroline Shuldham: Collaborative audits are a vital part of the nursing toolkit
When staff work in terms to decide how to improve care, results can be highly effective.
11 Oct 2017
Jane Cummings: Shaping the next generation of nurses
With a third of general practice nurses due to retire by 2020, it is vital that we support...
09 Oct 2017
Jane Bates: When illness cuts into people’s hectic agendas, life must still go on
Constantly rearranging a medical appointment due to work and family commitments is causing...
06 Oct 2017
Ian Hulatt: Online self-assessment of mental health problems could facilitate patients...
Self-diagnosis via the internet: democratisation of health or dangerous mistake?
06 Oct 2017
Howard Catton: Nursing needs to think globally
Challenges facing the planet have major health implications, which require action not talk,...
06 Oct 2017
Ebony Dunkley: Black blood donors urgently needed to help treat sickle cell disease
NHS Blood and Transplant is calling for 40,000 new black blood donors to help save the lives...
04 Oct 2017
Ismalia de Sousa: Keep up to date with the huge improvements in stroke treatment
Thrombectomy can transform people’s recovery after stroke but access to treatment still...
03 Oct 2017
#EndPJparalysis is about trusting nurses and valuing patients’ time
A global movement to get patients up, dressed and moving started with a conversation in a...
27 Sep 2017
Jane Bates: When the humble safety pin held nursing together
The once ubiquitous safety pin is now never seen on ward, a victim of Health and Safety. Yet...
27 Sep 2017
Wendy Preston: Look out for signs of idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis
More people die from IPF than are killed on the roads each year, but few nurses or doctors...
26 Sep 2017
Crystal Oldman: District nurses hold key to easing winter hospital crunch
District nurses are experts in the co-ordination and delivery of complex care in people’s...
26 Sep 2017
Jane Bates: Nursing attrition and the erosion of team spirit
With little time for clinical supervision, team meetings or teaching opportunities, problems...
22 Sep 2017