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Standard uniform colours could be a big help in cases of mistaken identity

01 September 2009

Nursing Standard

Letter

I was interested to read your news story (August 19) on the new uniforms being introduced at the Heart of England NHS Foundation Trust as part of its Start of Our...

Reality of pay rise gives little scope for celebration

18 May 2016

Nursing Standard

Letter

Following our recent 1% pay rise, I opened my payslip with excitement, only to be sorely disappointed.

These days we don’t have the luxury of ‘spares’ to go round

24 February 2016

Nursing Standard

Letter

In response to Donato Tallo’s letter (February 10) regarding hospitals having a pool of nurses to draw on, this is exactly what happened 30 years ago when I started...

Ensuring basic human needs are met is an absolute must

07 December 2011

Nursing Standard

Letter

I feel compelled to respond to Karin Burke’s letter (November 30) on the introduction of two-hourly rounds in all the adult inpatient wards at University Hospital...

Working as part of a staff pool gave me a great start in nursing

22 August 2012

Nursing Standard

Letter

Further to ‘More staff, better outcomes’ and the discussion on nurse-to-patient ratios, in the 1980s we used a dependency scale giving each patient a rating of one...

Why TB is on the increase

01 May 1994

Primary Health Care

Tuberculosis

Over the past few years, the notifications of tuberculosis (TB) in England and Wales have shown an increase, as they have in other parts of the world, but many...