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Raising upper age screening limit to 75 may cut deaths frombreast cancer

01 May 2008

Cancer Nursing Practice

News

Deaths from breast cancer could be significantly reduced in older women by increasing the upper age for screening to 75, according to a study of more than 860,000...

Tackling hate crime in Barnsley

04 September 2009

Learning Disability Practice

Feature

A survey by Barnsley’s hate crime group has revealed high levels of abuse of people with learning disabilities. The survey of 145 people found that more than one...

News in brief

01 June 2008

Nursing Older People

News

A roundup of the latest nursing news

Trust brings in maths test to reduce dosage errors

01 June 2005

Nursing Standard

News

Nurses at a major NHS trust are being given annual maths tests after a 15-day-old baby died as a result of miscalculation by two nurses.

Half of employers flout health law

08 June 2005

Nursing Standard

News

Further evidence that employers appear to be breaking the law by failing to provide adequate changing facilities for staff has emerged from a survey of Nursing...

Chancellor lobbied as community nurses despair at petrol prices

04 June 2008

Nursing Standard

News

The RCN has written to chancellor Alastair Darling calling for community nurses to be compensated for the soaring price of petrol that is forcing them to subsidise...

College lobbies to ban working weeks of more than 48 hours

03 September 2008

Nursing Standard

News

The RCN has urged members of the European parliament (MEPs) to change the law so that it is illegal for nurses to work more than 48 hours a week.

Shock horror story

30 November 1994

Nursing Standard

Mental health no limits

The designers of Project 2000 courses are very keen on showing students the complexities of hi-tech medicine, with its computers, monitors and advanced electronics....

Delivery man...

23 March 1994

Nursing Standard

No limits placements

Super-empathy seems to be the name of the game in maternity. Most of the midwives that I have met seem to have produced enough children to populate a whole town, and...