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Emeritus Professor from the University of Southampton
According to the Royal College of Nursing (RCN), the learning disability nurse workforce has plummeted by over 40% over the past decade (Launder, 2019). The data show that the number of learning...
Following the events at the Mid Staffordshire NHS Foundation Trust and the subsequent public inquiry (Francis, 2013), new strategies to promote patient safety were introduced across the NHS (Health...
The introduction of the duty of candour was part of the Government's plans to modernise the NHS by making it more accountable and transparent and it remains an enforceable duty for providers to carry...
On the first day of the country's second COVID-19 pandemic lockdown, as I walked through the New Forest, I was able to indulge in ‘forest bathing’, an important aspect of preventive mental health in...
The King's Fund was founded in 1897 with a primary mandate to raise money for London's voluntary hospitals. Today, the charity's wide-ranging activities are oriented towards influencing the...
ICN (https://www.icn.ch) is a federation of more than 130 national nurses' associations representing the more than 27 million nurses worldwide. Its primary mission is to represent nursing worldwide,...
Perhaps fearing the worst, the Government announced the creation of the institute last August, when many people were hoping the worst of COVID-19 was over and were enjoying the lifting of lockdown,...
Few readers would have imagined the utter carnage and chaos that would follow in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic as it swept across Europe in the early months of 2020. In a television broadcast on...
Florence Nightingale undoubtedly was the matriarch of the emerging nursing profession in the early years following the establishment of the Nightingale school of nursing in 1860. By this time, nursing...
Civilian nursing was not high on Nightingale's agenda after her return from the Crimean War, nonetheless the public outpouring of gratitude had resulted in the creation of the Nightingale Fund,...
When she returned from the Crimea Nightingale was recuperating from Crimean fever, which was most likely to have been caused by brucellosis (Young, 2005), an illness that may be followed months—or...
At the beginning of the Crimean War senior military officers displayed an appalling disregard for the lives of British soldiers. However, unlike previous wars, when the general public were kept in the...
Nursing is as old as humanity itself, with the word nurse originating from the Latin nutricia, meaning ‘to nourish’. Although all societies throughout history attended to the sick and injured, it was...
In 2016, the NHS as a whole failed a major cross-government test of its ability to handle a severe pandemic. The results of this Emergency Preparedness, Resilience and Response (EPRR) exercise, known...
Coronaviruses include a range of organisms that can cause diseases, including the common cold and the current SARS-CoV-2. Despite the original severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) coronavirus...
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