A 59 year old mental health nurse from Shotts, Lanarkshire has been struck off for providing a poor standard of care.
Mr Thomas K S Mcneill was struck of the register by an independent panel of the Nursing and Midwifery Council’s Conduct and Competence Committee in London on 7 December 2007.
Mr Mcneill was the owner and […]

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A nurse accused of dragging an elderly man across the floor after he fell out of bed and cut his head open has been struck off for snoozing on duty.
Winifred Tlhobogang, 61, was alleged to have failed to check the pensioner for injuries as blood poured from a gaping wound at the Merafield View Nursing […]

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New legislation to protect nurses in Scotland from attacks sends out a clear message that violence against NHS workers is unacceptable, the country’s health minister has said.
A proposed extension to the Emergency Workers Act which protects doctors, nurses, and midwives working in the community has been laid before parliament.
It also increases the maximum penalty for […]

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The government’s plan to qualify midwives after two years was criticised by the Society of Midwives of SA on Tuesday.  The society’s president, Deliwe Nyathikazi, told delegates at the start of the society’s 7th Annual Congress being held at the International Convention Centre in Durban that there were concerns at “new initiatives to downscale midwifery. […]

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More than one in six nurses involved with QOF work have been asked to carry out tasks they felt were beyond their competence, an Independent Nurse survey has revealed.  In addition, 30 per cent have been asked to carry out QOF-related work for which they had no formal training. A significant minority — 10 per […]

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The Jewish Healthcare Foundation and Pittsburgh Regional Health Initiative is preparing to launch a Web-based training program for medical professionals who are involved in eliminating hospital acquired infections and other quality improvement efforts, the foundation said Tuesday. 
The “virtual community for clinicians” will feature the latest findings from demonstration projects worldwide and peer support networks where […]

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Three quarters of the school nurse workforce may not be able to implement NICE guidance on tackling alcohol abuse, a union has warned. NICE guidance for schools on cutting alcohol use in children and young people calls for staff including school nurses to give one-to-one counselling to pupils thought to be drinking harmful amounts. These staff […]

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Graduating nurses from the Capitol Institute of Health Sciences and Beauty Therapies have been told that golden opportunities await them in Cameroon and abroad. This message of hope was delivered Friday, December 7 at the Bamenda Congress Hall by Edward Ngalah, Coordinator of the Institute.”Capitol can today boast of more than 350 former students schooling and […]

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The Punjab government will advertise 90 posts of female paramedics next week on contract bases for the prison department.
The advertisement will contain recruitment of 20 lady medical officers in BS-17 by the health department, whereas 27 charge-nurses in BS-16, 12 Lady Health Visitors in BS-11 and 20 Lady Dispensers in BS-6.
The government has already created […]

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A CHEST pain clinic set up to speed up the diagnosis and treatment of cardiac patients at Cork University Hospital is to close over Christmas.
Yesterday, politicians blamed HSE cutbacks on the temporary loss of a service which treated 893 patients last year.
Labour TD Ciarán Lynch said there could be no clinical justification for the closure […]

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