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Alert to patients’ needs

01 February 2009

Learning Disability Practice

News feature

Mencap’s Death by Indifference (2007) was a damning report that detailed the deaths of six people with learning disabilities while in hospital under NHS care. It...

Flying to the rescue

01 May 2008

Emergency Nurse

Feature

A Boeing 747 thunders over the Victorian Thames-side flat where Angela Simpson lives.

Overcoming boundaries

01 March 2009

Emergency Nurse

Feature

As the only nursing director who works in an ambulance trust in England, Gill Bennett is on a mission to improve nurses’ lot.

Cruise control

01 September 2007

Emergency Nurse

Feature

‘I ’d rather have three hours on a beach in Barbados than a week in Wolverhampton,’ says nurse Andrea Brown, comparing her previous life in the English midlands to...

Early assessment and diagnosis for children with hyperactivity disorder

02 September 2011

Nursing Children and Young People

News

A nurse has devised a care pathway for children with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) after fierce campaigning by families who felt they could not get...

Part of a community

01 April 2009

Nursing Management

Careers

MODEST THOUGH she is, Gill Bennett can pride herself on being the only nursing director working at an ambulance trust in England.

Recruits from outside Europe face tick-box exercises to work

25 September 2014

Nursing Management

Analysis

FROM THIS month, overseas nurses from outside the European Economic Area (EEA) seeking to practise in the UK will no longer need to undertake supervised practice...

Lessons in how to quit

17 March 2009

Nursing Standard

Feature

Today is No Smoking Day and school nurses are at the forefront of helping students to quit.

A lifeline for children

24 November 2009

Nursing Standard

Features

CLIC Sargent, the charity for children with cancer, is next year’s partner for the London Marathon. Raising money from the event will fund more nurses to provide...

Design for life

30 March 2010

Nursing Standard

General article

A team of designers has been charged with redesigning hospital equipment that will help combat infection. Their prototypes are now in production.