A MIDWIFE and her paramedic husband have been struck off the nursing register after she stole cylinders of laughing gas from an ambulance station with his help.
Rachel Hotchkiss, 38, from Mendlesham, was caught on a hidden police CCTV camera taking canisters of nitrous oxide from an ambulance storeroom, which she hid in the couple’s wardrobe […]

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As pregnancies increase among British women and female migrants, midwives are suffering the brunt of higher birth rates in the country. The number of expectant mothers midwives have been caring for grew on the average by 6.5 percent over the past six years.
But in some areas, like the East Midlands, the figure is at an […]

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Dental treatment in England is the most expensive in Europe, according to an unprecedented survey which is likely to fuel the exodus of patients seeking treatment abroad.
The survey of nine European countries found the total cost of a standard filling ranged from €156 (£117) in England to €8 in Hungary. That total included the cost […]

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The First Edition of the Medical Tourism Magazine published by the Medical Tourism Association launched in December 2007.
West Palm Beach, FL, January 09, 2008 –(PR.com)– The world’s first issue of Medical Tourism Magazine has been published. The magazine is available for free in both print and electronic versions at the Medical Tourism Association’s website.
The magazine […]

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An independent panel of experts has said there was “no convincing case” for closing accident and emergency departments at Ayr and Monklands.
The panel was set up by Health Secretary Nicola Sturgeon after she reversed decisions to close the A&Es.
The scrutiny panel reports said the Ayrshire and Lanarkshire health boards failed to back up their plans […]

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For years, the Imperial Valley’s largest hospital has grappled not only with the national nursing shortage but with a lack of Spanish-speaking nurses able to communicate easily with the Latino patients who fill most of the beds.
The solution may be right next door, in Mexico.
“For the valley, nothing makes more sense,” said Tomás Virgen, assistant […]

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Latest figures show that roughly 135 000 African-born physicians and professional nurses practice overseas in developed countries. This finding, published in the online open access journal Human Resources for Health, suggests that approximately one-fifth of doctors and 10% of nurses born in any of the 27 African states are currently working in a developed nation.
The […]

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The first round of graduates of Seton’s new nursing residency program is helping to fill a national nursing shortage. In July, Seton kicked off its 18-week residency program which is designed to attract, train, and retain nurses. The first 60 nurses recently completed the program.
The Versant RN Residency program is a mixture of hands-on instruction […]

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A FAILURE to deliver on pay demands for 40,000 nurses will spark a new war of attrition with health employers.
The Irish Nurses Organisation (INO) and Psychiatric Nurses Association (PNA) may have played their strongest card when they launched their ill-fated work-to-rule and work stoppages last year — but they are not without more options for […]

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Even clean hospitals can pass on infections to patients. Health experts around the world are trying to find ways to reduce hospital acquired infections (HAIs). Despite all the efforts to tackle it, the threat is increasing.
Scientists who took part in the recently held Federation of Infection Societies Conference at the University of Cardiff in the […]

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