The School of Nursing and Health Studies underwent a major operation this January, breaking down their organizational structure into academic departments. Associate Dean Michael Bergin reported that ...
The reform, launched under the banner “liberating the NHS”, rests on some familiar ideas. Commissioning GPs and increasing provider competition were seen as ways to improve the quality and efficiency ...
The National Health Service (NHS) has 1.7 million workers across the UK – with one million patients every 36 hours, generating vast amounts of sensitive data. They are the fifth largest employer in ...
The UK government has urged the stakeholders of the UK health sector to the way in their opinions about the risks and benefits of a separate pay structure for NHS nurses, moving away from Agenda for ...
THE governance structure of the NHS in Scotland is not fit for purpose. The scandal of the new, but flawed, Edinburgh children’s hospital has produced demands for the resignation of the Cabinet ...
The needless deaths of hundreds of patients at Gosport War Memorial Hospital in Portsmouth could hardly be more disturbing. The essential compassionate basis of healthcare appears to have been ignored ...
The traditional model of hospital care needs to be changed to provide the best care, the health secretary says. Patricia Hewitt said the district general hospital model, providing a wide range of care ...
This article appears as part of the Unspun: Scottish Politics newsletter. If only one or two parts of health and social care were in a bad way, perhaps fixing it would not be such a fraught task. But ...