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The Care Quality Commission (CQC) annual report on the state of health care and adult social care in England for 2017/18 helps provide this overview and baseline assessment. The picture painted by the...
‘Mental health problems represent the largest single cause of disability in the UK. The cost to the economy is estimated at £105 billion a year—roughly the cost of the entire NHS.’ .
A number of studies have focused on the negative psychological impact stoma forming surgery can have on a patient. These studies consistently highlight four key areas of concern:.
The present qualitative-phenomenological study was performed to investigate haemodialysis patients' experience with fatigue. The authors hope that the results of this study lead the reader to a deeper...
Jack was admitted through the surgical day ward on the morning of his bilateral grommet procedure. A student nurse (from now on referred to as ‘the nurse’ and supported by a registered nurse)...
One of my earliest memories as a student nurse in the late 1960s was helping to serve lunch to patients on an orthopaedic ward. The dinner trolley always arrived from the hospital kitchen at 12 noon....
Whatever our nursing background, we will care for people with incontinence throughout their life span..
Significant progress has been made in recent decades in driving down smoking rates in England. However, nearly 6 million adults continue to smoke (Office for National Statistics, 2020), with...
‘Staff are struggling to cope with large volumes of safety guidance, they have little time and space to implement guidance effectively, and the systems and processes around them are not always...
A key issue with policy development and culture change is always going to be the pace of change. I have said many times in my columns that this has been too slow and that systemic problems perpetuate....