Paul Cosford: Meeting my palliative care team
Professor Paul Cosford, medical director of Public Health England, continues his occasional series on his experience as a patient with…
Nursing & Care
Colours of your mood
We often talk about our moods in term of colours of the rainbow. Feeling blue, or green with envy? Or…
Shocking findings of Bishop Jones’s review
It is deeply shocking to read the conclusions of Bishop James Jones’s review, that the lives of hundreds of people…
School Nurses
School nurses are qualified and registered nurses or midwives who have an additional qualification in community public health. They are concerned…
Regular wound dressings work
A new study of open leg fractures suggests there is no difference to patient recovery whether high-tech negative pressure wound…
Optimal umbilical cord clamping
At the time of birth 30-40% of a newborn’s total blood volume is still circulating via the umbilical cord and placenta.…
Nursing – a transatlantic exchange
A transatlantic exchange programme has seen nursing students from Scotland and America compare their countries’ healthcare systems and university training,…
Alternative ways to manage long-term pain
When managing long-term pain in the pain clinic, we rely on all our skills as doctors, nurses, physiotherapists, psychologists and…
The shortage of male nurses
In the UK currently, there is a distinct lack of male nurses, male childcare experts and male adult social carers. In…
Hands as diagnostic tools
Human hands are vastly more sophisticated than is necessary for survival. Each has 27 bones and is controlled by 35…