It was Mothers’ Day yesterday, and in those 24 hours about 1,500 women will have died giving birth, as they do every day of the year. Almost all the deaths will have been in the world’s 75 poorest countries. Most would have been preventable in more affluent nations. Maternal health is a bald and unforgiving […]

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The first conference addressing the global shortage of health workers is opening in Kampala. The World Health Organization says a further four million doctors, nurses, midwives and other health care professionals are needed. The WHO says the shortage is affecting basic services such as immunisation, child birth and treatment of diseases. There is a critical […]

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Almost a third of UK nurses suffer frequent violence at work, according to new research.Only France has higher rates of violence, the study found, from a list of 10 European countries including Belgium, Italy and Poland.The research, published in the journal Occupational Medicine, found that 29% of UK nurses had suffered frequent violent incidents at […]

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MEDICARE should be restructured so patients can see registered nurses at GP clinics instead of doctors for certain consultations to help relieve the chronic workforce shortage, an Australian National University study has concluded.The study says Australia is suffering a “crisis in manpower” of general practice doctors until at least 2012. The authors say the crisis […]

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