A month-long independent investigation by The Chronicle has revealed the protracted exploitation of students at the Tamale Nursing Training College (NTC) by the authorities in various forms.
These acts are currently creating serious tension between the student nurses and their tutors, as the apparent fraudulent deeds of the authorities have now become an open secret.
 
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Derby Hospitals has admitted that hundreds of staff could face pay cuts but vowed that there would be no redundancies. Now, a nurse has stepped forward to say that she is one of the first victims of the financial crisis as she has been told that she will not have a job next year.
Rona […]

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More than £18 million has been paid out in clinical negligence cases brought against Derriford Hospital in the past four years, The Herald can reveal. About half that was paid in 2006/7 alone, figures from the NHS Litigation Authority showed.

Much of the cash, including £7,088,832 in 2006/7, relates to obstetrics cases, such as where botched […]

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In a study a simple video-based awareness programme significantly improved hand washing among family members visiting sick children in a paediatric intensive care unit. “Research has shown that hospital acquired infections occur in about ten percent of patients on general hospital wards, but that children on paediatric intensive care units have a 20 to 30 percent […]

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Commenting on the Nursing and Midwifery Council’s decision Thursday to reverse its decision to allow specialist community public health nurses to renew their NMC registration without first renewing their midwifery registration, the Royal College of Midwives Deputy General Secretary has expressed concern about 26 midwives on the SPCHN (Specialist Community Public Health Nurse) who no longer have an effective midwifery registration. […]

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Patients need to be more assertive and be wary of doctors and nurses who do not wash their hands, according to health secretary Alan Johnson.
Responding to questions by the Health Select Committee last week, Mr Johnson said: ‘We need to make patients confident and assertive enough to comment if their clinician has not washed their […]

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Beaumont Hospital in Dublin has asked the public not to attend its Emergency Department unless it is absolutely necessary is it tries to contain an outbreak of the Winter Vomiting Bug. In a statement, the hospital said it was urging the public who have the symptoms not to attend the hospital, but to contact their […]

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At least one Irish health insurance company is considering asking customers to sign up to “health management regimes”. These would be linked to their premiums and could see them using new diagnostic technologies to monitor their health, according to the director of a Government-funded diagnostic research unit. Read more…

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