141 Opinion Blog posts

How can the government justify cutting £250m from funding for social care, given the 165,000 vacancies that already exist in that sector?

In this thoughtful and inspiring piece, Registered Nurse Fiona reflects on her experience as a nurse, what it means to her, and why nurses need to play a vital part in changing the NHS.

Will allowing nurses and midwives to approve abortions improve the healthcare outcomes for patients?

Are NHS retention efforts being hampered by the lack of flexible working arrangements for nurses returning to work after having children?

What is driving increasing the increasing levels of abuse that nurses are encountering in their working lives?

What measures could be implemented to tackle loneliness amongst Registered Nurses?

Does scrapping competency tests for some non-EU Nurses registering with the NMC put expediency ahead of patient safety?

Is it possible for the NHS to plug staffing gaps through methods other than paying premiums for agency staff and recruiting trained staff from overseas?

Using insights from their own experience, an anonymous writer, explains how you can best prepare yourself for a coroners court summons and what you can expect from the process.