Aug 08 2013
Pressure has increased recently on the Government to tackle the increasingly controversial issue of ‘zero-hours contracts’ in the wake of a Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development report which estimates the number of workers affected as being as high as a million, nearly five times as many as claimed by official statistics. Read Full story
Jul 19 2013
The Care Quality Commission (CQC) has announced the appointment of Andrea Sutcliffe as its first Chief Inspector of Adult Social Care. Read Full story
Jul 18 2013
The first Chief Inspector of hospitals for the NHS Sir Mike Richards who works with the Care Quality Commission has announced a more in-depth system for inspecting NHS premises in light of the scandals at Mid Staffordshire Hospital and more recently the Furness General Hospital. Read Full story
Jul 10 2013
An independent report conducted by Journalist Camilla Cavendish has found that there is no minimum standard of training for healthcare assistants before they can work unsupervised. Read Full story
Jul 05 2013
The NHS is celebrating its 65th birthday today. Originally launched on 5 July 1948 at the Park Hospital in Manchester it was the first time anywhere in the world that completely free healthcare was made available purely on the basis of citizenship and need, rather than the payment of fees or insurance premiums. Today it is almost impossible to imagine life before the… Read Full story
Jun 18 2013
The Royal College of General Practitioners (RCGP) estimates that as much as one in every twenty patients with a GP practice is providing unpaid care and it is thought that about 40% of carers are thought to be at risk of depression or stress because of their caring role.
The Carer’s Trust defines a carer as someone of any age who provides unpaid support to family or… Read Full story
Jun 01 2013
The Protection of Freedoms Act 2012 merged the functions of the Criminal Records Bureau (CRB) and the Independent Safeguarding Authority (ISA) into one body: the Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS). Read Full story
May 07 2013
Recent research conducted by the University of Southern Denmark has turned much of the established thinking about chronic lower back pain on its head. Over a period of ten years the Danish team have studied tissue collected from sufferers and found that nearly half of the samples were infected, most often by propionibacterium acnes more generally known as the cause of… Read Full story
Apr 22 2013
Dr Peter Carter was interviewed on the BBC Breakfast news today ahead of the Royal College of Nursing’s (RCN) annual conference in Liverpool this week to discuss a recent survey undertaken by the RCN. Read Full story
Apr 21 2013
Nurses are being prevented from caring for their patients because they are drowning in a sea of paperwork, according to the Royal College of Nursing (RCN). Read Full story