People deserve better

Bat rabies: a lurking danger

Florence Nightingale Foundation: what next?

‘Many nurses feel unable to contribute to decisions affecting care delivery and the quality of the patient experience’.

Policies and strategies to prevent patient falls in hospital

Falls among older adults is a global phenomenon. The World Health Organization (WHO) (2018) suggests that falls are the second leading cause of accidental death; there are 646 000 annual fatalities,...

Running to stand still with patient safety in the NHS?

‘Professional and/or geographic isolation. Weak leadership. Interpersonal, and sometimes inter-professional, conflict. Failures in communication. A reluctance to listen to patients, families and...

From staff nurse to nurse consultant: Survival Guide part 2: Surviving as a student

There are a number of stress points when starting a nursing degree. The orientation to university life and the possible move to a new part of the country, leaving family and friends behind, can be...

To sleep, perchance?

‘Planning sleep and using sleep in a careful and controlled way to improve the level of care that you are delivering is really important. But there is this blanket cultural idea that we don't pay...

Lansley's reforms and the NHS Long Term Plan

Decriminalisation of sex work

Improving men's health: successful initiatives and barriers to progress

‘Expectations to be self-sufficient, to act tough, to be physically attractive, to be heterosexual … and to use aggression to resolve conflict encourage men to take risks with their health’.

Back to nursing: new standards for return to practice programmes

Celebrating partnership working between the third sector and the NHS

Bliss was launched in 1979, initially to raise money for equipment such as incubators for premature babies and those requiring care in neonatal units. The charity has since provided much more than...