Nursing

What are the impending threats to the NHS this autumn?

Explained: from Covid to dire workforce shortages, the health service faces a deepening crisis

Nicola Davis

08, Aug, 2022 @11:09 PM

Cost of living crisis will add strain to ‘creaking’ NHS, experts warn

Staffing crisis drives nurses to strike ballot amid warnings of cancelled operations and surge in admissions

Nicola Davis Science correspondent

08, Aug, 2022 @5:45 PM

NSW town’s pop-up Covid vaccine clinic almost called off because of ‘ridiculous’ Medicare rule

Rule that nurses must be supervised for clinics to be reimbursed nearly caused ‘health disaster’ when rural GP had to isolate, expert says

Melissa Davey Medical editor

01, Aug, 2022 @5:48 AM

Strikes threat as UK public sector staff given below-inflation pay rise

Unions warn many workers will quit teaching, nursing and social care rather than take real-terms pay cut

Patrick Butler, Denis Campbell, Sally Weale and Vikram Dodd

19, Jul, 2022 @5:57 PM

How public sector pay has fallen in real terms – in charts

Guardian analysis of ONS data shows public sector earnings have fallen in real terms by 4.3% since the financial crisis

Ashley Kirk

19, Jul, 2022 @4:32 PM

This isn’t the way to solve the NHS staffing crisis | Letters

Letters: We urgently need to train more doctors and stop relying on medical staff from overseas, writes Prof Rachel Jenkins. Plus, Charlotte Burck and Gretchen Siglar on the support that NHS workers need to stay well themselves

Letters

17, Jul, 2022 @5:01 PM

How a teenager in crisis made me question my job in Britain’s broken health system | Anonymous

A harrowing weekend for the patient and nurses involved could have been avoided, says an anonymous nurse

Anonymous

16, Jul, 2022 @9:00 AM

Hospital patients being treated in corridors and waiting areas, says RCN

Poll reveals more than a quarter of UK hospital nurses have seen patients cared for in ‘inappropriate’ settings

Denis Campbell Health policy editor

13, Jul, 2022 @11:01 PM

‘There were moments I questioned my passion for the job’: the overseas nurses helping to keep the NHS running

Almost half of new nurses are now trained abroad. What is life in the UK – and the NHS – like for them?

Interviews by Amy Fleming

13, Jul, 2022 @9:00 AM

NHS to miss out on recruiting thousands of nurses if BTecs are scrapped

Hospital bosses issue warning as government moves to end technical qualifications for healthcare students

Denis Campbell Health policy editor

12, Jul, 2022 @11:01 PM

Teachers and nurses ‘ready to quit’ over delays to pay rises, union leaders warn

Newly appointed cabinet ministers are under pressure to swiftly resolve wage deals for public sector workers or face them leaving their professions in coming weeks

Toby Helm

10, Jul, 2022 @7:00 AM

Australia’s 10,000 deaths and the paradox of ‘Covid normal’

The country has fared better than others – but those on the frontline are still wrestling with the agony of the coronavirus pandemic