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12 May 2020
Today, on the 200th anniversary of Florence Nightingale’s birth, it’s Nurses’ Day – the annual opportunity for the public, and nurses themselves, to take a few moments to celebrate the profound good that nursing does.
28 Nov 2019
I have just finished yet another week working in a short-staffed team. With four nurses long-term sick, three on sickness leave, one on annual leave and two unfilled posts, our team of 14 nurses finds itself reduced to just four.
1 Dec 2017
In meteorological terms, today is the first day of winter, the time of the year associated with increased pressure on the whole health and social care system; pressure most keenly felt in hospital emergency departments and inpatient wards, the gauge of how much capacity there is, or not, in the system at any one time.
