GP urgent home visits to ease A&E crisis
GPs are under pressure to provide emergency home visits to ease the crisis in overstretched A&E departments, NHS documents reveal. … Read more
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Patients one fifth more likely to die in hospitals with fewer qualified nurses
NHS plans to give nursing tasks to cheaper assistants are a “risky experiment,” researchers have warned – after a study … Read more
Unfilled nurse training places climb to more than 700
More than 700 training places across pre-registration and post-registration nursing courses in England were left empty in the 2015-16 academic … Read more
Poor staffing and workloads make midwives leave
Midwives are leaving and being driven away by excessive workloads and poor staffing levels, says a new report. The RCM publication … Read more
Dangerous and unsafe’ care driving midwives out of NHS
RCM survey reports inadequate staffing levels, bullying, poor working conditions and fears of making ‘tragic mistakes’ Inadequate staffing levels are … Read more
Nursing home care ratings lagging behind due to staff and capacity gaps, CQC warns
Social care organisations are increasingly struggling to provide an adequate standard of care because of staff shortages and lack of … Read more
Charity warns of shortage of nurses in children’s palliative care
by Jo Stephenson, Reporter A worrying shortage of nurses working in children’s palliative care is having a negative impact on … Read more
Out-of-hours services ‘broken’ as single GP regularly covers 370,000 patients
Out-of-hours services in Northern Ireland are on the verge of collapse, with individual GPs regularly having to cover populations of … Read more
RCN responds to report on district nursing
The King’s Fund warns of the effects of staff shortages in district nursing, and the importance of district nurses for … Read more
Out-of-hours shifts being run with no GPs due to recruitment crisis
A GP out-of-hours provider covering 300,000 patients has been running overnight shifts without any GPs on the rota. NHS Doncaster … Read more