A man living with cancer died after being given multiple overdoses of morphine
Editorial
Some issues refuse to go away: they are raised
When the Winterbourne View Hospital scandal wa
So many practice nurses are expected to retire
Finally, after months of lobbying from unions,
Almost every day, week and month of the year i
This week a group of 12 men and women will mak
Policies, initiatives, campaigns – they have a
Every year, hundreds of those who apply for pr
Around one third of nurses in England work 12-
Limits are to be imposed on the amount of mone
Whenever disaster or tragedy strikes, nurses a
Waste in the health service is nothing new, wi
We have all been served in shops by staff with limited English, or endured those conversations on the phone with someone we struggle to understand in a call centre.
Raising concerns, speaking out, blowing the whistle – three phrases that mean much the same thing but are equally difficult to do, even for hardened professionals.
The long-running saga over what – if anything – should replace the Liverpool Care Pathway for those close to death in England appears to be nearing a conclusion.
As I sat down to write my first editorial for Nursing Standard, my phone rang. It was my daughter asking me to do a quick internet search on good venues for cocktails. I happily obliged… even though it was just nine o’clock in the morning.
I loved the #ImInWorkJeremy Twitter response to the health secretary’s ultimatum last week over moving to a seven-day NHS by 2020.
Anger, disbelief, outrage and dismay were all in evidence last week after chancellor George Osborne revealed that he would be inflicting five more years of pay restraint on England’s nurses.
