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Whatever the Government and NHS appetite for reform and change, the emerging care quality crisis at the Shrewsbury and Telford NHS Hospital Trust is guaranteed to keep patient safety a live public...
Civilian nursing was not high on Nightingale's agenda after her return from the Crimean War, nonetheless the public outpouring of gratitude had resulted in the creation of the Nightingale Fund,...
One of the functions of NHS Resolution is to manage litigation claims brought against the NHS organisations. This position gives it a unique overview of NHS clinical negligence, complaints and patient...
A 78-year-old woman was admitted to the authors' hospital with pneumonia. She had previously experienced a cerebral infarction. Emergency tracheal intubation was performed because her heart rate was...
Both the Mental Health Act 1983 and the Mental Capacity Act 2005 have provisions for the authorisation of a deprivation of liberty that are compliant with Article 5 of the European Convention on Human...
Before the introduction of the nursing process, which is the systematic problem-solving approach to planning nursing care for the individual patient, the delivery of nursing care was via task...
‘Sussex Police started looking in 2023 into an initial 105 cases, but BBC File On 4 Investigates has learned that number is now more than 200.’ .
COPD is a term given to a collection of lung diseases including chronic bronchitis and emphysema (Plant et al, 2000). The World Health Organization (WHO) (2017) estimated that there was a prevalence...
‘Patients struggle to navigate the complaints system and it may take some time to find the correct organisation to complain to.’ .
‘Anything a person does in response to internal or external events. Actions may be overt (motor or verbal) and directly measurable, or covert (activities not viewable but involving voluntary...