This website is intended for healthcare professionals
This website is intended for healthcare professionals
One year ago, NHS Employers launched its ‘How are you feeling today NHS?’ initiative (NHS Employers, 2019). This easy-to-use resource was designed and developed with the help of NHS staff to promote...
There have been many news headlines over recent years highlighting the workforce issues facing the NHS. Perhaps the greatest challenge is rectifying the acute shortage of trained nurses, which The...
In the UK, government advice on immunisation is given via the ‘Green Book’ (https://tinyurl.com/peqclpm), regularly updated following advice from the Joint Committee on Vaccination and Immunisation....
Before the introduction of the nursing process, which is the systematic problem-solving approach to planning nursing care for the individual patient, the delivery of nursing care was via task...
Before the Nightingale era, there was no national nursing curriculum or state examinations, and hospital nursing was undertaken by an ad hoc workforce including members of the ecclesiastical...
Hospital passports have been used for a number of years for certain patient groups and are designed to give hospital staff helpful information about patients who have frequent admissions to hospital....
In a systematic review of the literature, Landeiro et al (2019) showed that delayed discharge occurs in most countries and that the associated costs are significant, not least because of their impact...
Out of necessity, human mothers have been known to breastfeed other animals such as piglets (Simoons and Baldwin, 1982), and before the invention of rubber-teated glass bottles it was not uncommon for...
The importance of innovation in health care cannot be overestimated and, since the dawn of communication technology and the invention of the telephone, the healthcare industry has endeavoured to...
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