by Sam | 17 Jul 2014 | Uncategorized
The King’s Fund has published its Quarterly Monitoring Report on NHS performance. It notes that, in its fourth year of effectively no real increase in funding and undiminished urgency to generate more care to meet growing demands, the NHS is under huge pressure...
by Sam | 15 Jul 2014 | Uncategorized
The National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) has issued new guidelines on safe staffing levels for nurses. NICE said checks should be carried out if there are more than eight patients to one nurse on a ward in the day. The new guidelines identify a...
by Sam | 14 May 2014 | Uncategorized
The Labour Party has claimed that the number of foreign nurses working for the NHS has increased whilst the number of training places for the profession has been cut. Labour has said that the number of EU nurses and midwives who registered to work in the UK last year...
