Issues discussed in the HSCC report included the impact of clinical negligence claims on patients themselves, nurses, doctors involved in a case and on the NHS generally. There was a focus on reining...
An earlier audit (Kidney Transplantation: Pitfalls and Ways to Improve) (Fernandez, and Banerjee, 2016) was presented at UK Kidney Week 2016. This showed that waiting for two referrals – a clinic...
The EU recognises that some patients' clinical need for medicines cannot be met by the current range of licensed medicines, or that it is simply not commercially viable for a pharmaceutical company to...
Clearly, when a nurse is communicating with a child or young person, they need to consider the client's age and level of development (Dos Santos et al, 2016), to acknowledge levels of understanding or...
The first report to cause me to pose these questions is the long-awaited report by Dr Bill Kirkup (Kirkup, 2022) into the events at the maternity and neonatal services in East Kent. This has just been...
‘In a significant U-turn, PHE advised frontline staff to wear a flimsy plastic apron with coveralls when gowns ran out, in a move that doctors and nurses fear may lead to more of them contracting...
The aim of this case study was to examine the missed nursing care phenomenon and to shed light on the possible predictors that may impact on the occurrence of missed nursing care in the context of a...
This service has prevented many A&E visits and admissions to hospital, so reduced time spent in A&E or acute services. Not only has this saved money for the NHS and freed up resources but,...