The state Cabinet today apart from approving increase in the allowance granted to nurses of the state health services also approved the recruitment of 199 lady constables in the state police department. The meeting which was convened this afternoon with the chief minister in the chair thoroughly discussed the government grant of allowance to the practicing […]

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THE NHS in Wales is beset with “significant and intractable problems”, according a major survey of senior figures in the health sector. Half of all respondents believed the NHS in England was in a better position to match resources to need, while 45% were convinced their colleagues in England enjoyed better relations with the private […]

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A recent survey of 1000 New Jersey nurses found that more than 25% had a work-related injury within the last five years. 62% were exposed to hard to kill “bugs” like MRSA, 52% had back and other injuries from lifting patients, 33% experienced violence in their hospital or nursing home, 32% suffered needlestick or other […]

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This is according to the South African Health Review’s chapter on private hospitals authored by Thulani Matsebula and Michael Willie. There was also a 34% increase in the number of private for-profit hospitals during the same period - from 161 hospitals in 1998, compared to 216 hospitals in 2006. Matsebula and Willie said the growth in […]

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Newcastle University is one of the UK’s leading teaching and research universities, with a wide variety of undergraduate courses. We offer a large number of International Undergraduate Merit Scholarships (IUMS) for international students who study for their first degree at Newcastle. All applicants are considered, based on the information given on their UCAS application form. […]

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Christina Barrett, 52, appeared before magistrates in Northampton on eight separate charges of fraud and false representation. She is accused of tricking her way into getting a security PIN number from the Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC), allowing her to work as a nurse.
Keith Taylor, prosecuting, told the court Barrett phoned the NMC in 2003 […]

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A reader telephoned me recently very worried that, after the deadline date of the 30 July next year, many practices in her area could fall short of the GDC’s requirement permitting only registered dental nurses or those in-training to continue working. She said that many dentists could find themselves working illegally or staff could wake […]

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In a move to compensate for giving Hollywood actor Dennis Quaid’s Newborn twins an overdose of blood thinner earlier this month, 1,400 nurses at L.A.’s Cedars-Sinai Medical Center are being forced to undergo extra training.
“The day after the twins were given the accidental overdose, the entire nursing staff at Cedars were given letters informing them […]

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A MIDWIFE claims there is a chronic shortage in the profession as many leave the NHS due to overwork and stress.
The Royal College of Midwives (RCM) is now calling for better pay to curb those leaving because of low pay, low morale and overwork. A review of midwife staffing levels is under way across Kent, […]

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A national shortage of midwives is being felt in Waitakere city. New Zealand Nurses Organisation organiser Christine Gallagher says midwives working for the Waitemata District Health Board are facing added work pressures as a result. “The board needs to address this urgently,” she says. Board general manager of child, woman and family services Linda Harun says […]

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