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This website is intended for healthcare professionals
The United Nations Convention on Children's Rights defines a minor as any person under the age of 18 years. It requires that childhood is recognised as a developmental period and that our domestic...
‘Grant to any patient who is for the time being liable to be detained in a hospital under this Part of this Act leave to be absent from the hospital subject to such conditions (if any) as that...
Whatever our nursing background, we will care for people with incontinence throughout their life span..
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....
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....
‘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...
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...
‘We contend that part of the ongoing muddle about safety cultures stems from this lack of focused attention on the nature and implications of justice in the field of patient safety.’ .
As clinical appointments were limited due to lockdown restrictions, staff shortages and shielding requirements, it was paramount to allow patients access to nursing support. In order to work...
Both active and passive devices are designed to help improve the patient experience and be intuitive to use. However, the two devices have some fundamental differences and benefits..