Three hospital nurses have been charged with wilful neglect following a police investigation into alleged record-keeping anomalies. South Wales Police confirmed Lauro Bertulano, 44, Clare Cahill, 41 and Rebecca Jones,
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A hospital worker has lost his job after allegedly posing for pictures wearing a patient’s underwear. James John Turner was suspended by NHS Grampian while the health board investigated the
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A hospital under investigation by police has suspended ten nurses – three of whom have been arrested over tampering with medication and falsifying records. The three nurses who work at
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Four out of five nurses do not think they are being given enough time to give patients adequate care. Eighty-two percent of nurses are so busy that they don’t have
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Half of nurses are working through breaks or beyond their shift, revealing a health service under “severe strain”, a new report has warned. A survey of almost 3,000 nurses by
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Nursing cutbacks are directly linked to higher patient death rates in hospitals, a major study has found. Every extra patient added to a nurse’s workload increases the risk of death
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Health Minister Edwin Poots has reinforced his commitment to ensuring that sufficient numbers of nurses, with the right skills, are in all areas where nursing care is delivered to patients,
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The RCN has welcomed a DHSSPS action plan on the future of learning disability nursing in Northern Ireland but has raised concerns about the decline in numbers and the ageing
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