The use of virtual health care as an option for lymphoedema services

The NHS is constantly required to adapt and change and the COVID-19 pandemic has accelerated changes. In lower-limb conditions there has been an emphasis on patients self-caring by managing lower-limb...

Protecting student nurses is crucial to saving the nursing workforce

Student experiences of nursing on the front line during the COVID-19 pandemic

‘The request for student nurses to work on the front line during the COVID-19 pandemic brings with it many challenges … especially for those only part way through their degree’ .

Celebrating Florence Nightingale and her contribution to nursing

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...

Suing the NHS for clinical negligence: reports analysis

There has been a call from Peter Walsh, Chief Executive of Action against Medical Accidents (AvMA), and others for urgent action to be taken to prevent avoidable harm and deaths among non-COVID-19...

Holding powers in hospitals under the Mental Health Act 1983

‘…nothing in this Act shall be construed as preventing a patient who requires treatment for mental disorder from being admitted to any hospital … without any application, order or direction...

BAME staff and microaggressions

‘There's the feeling that sometimes you're not understood, or you're treated maybe a bit differently … Or sometimes there could be comments made about your culture, your food, languages you might...

COVID-19 and the gender imperative

COVID-19: protecting the medically vulnerable

‘There is no certainty when you live with a medical condition like CF but having clear and timely guidance from PHE and my own medical team has provided a much-needed level of assurance during this...

Cortrak feeding tube placement: interpretation agreement of the ‘GI flexure’ system versus X-ray

There was a high level of agreement between Cortrak and radiological interpretation. This was not high enough to prove that Cortrak could reduce end-of-procedure detection of lung misplacement to...

Catheterisation: a patient perspective

The catheterisation was beautifully done. A nursing staff member who introduced himself as Ramuel, came to insert the catheter. He told me he was putting anaesthetic on the head of my penis and that...

Implementing the Welsh patient safety notice on bowel care for patients at risk of autonomic dysreflexia

Wales, as a devolved nation, has its own health service provision and all health boards were obliged to undertake the requirements of the patient safety notice. It was soon identified that not all...