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24/7 NHS – will it work?

May 20, 2015 Written by Medical Practice , Nursing

The first major policy announcement from the re-elected Prime Minister on Monday was, perhaps rather surprisingly, about the NHS.  This may be because the whole topic of the future of the health service was kicked around a lot at the General Election and there are, no […]

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Human dignity and the code

March 31, 2015 Written by NMC , Nursing

The best nursing care comes through creativity and innovation, adapting care to the needs of the individual patient, rather than cramming each person into a ‘cookie cutter care plan’.   But there is more than a hint of nanny-state micromanagement in new nursing guidelines that came […]

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Freedom of conscience in the new Nursing and Midwifery Council Code of Conduct

January 29, 2015 Written by NMC , Nursing

A new year seems a good time to launch a new set of guidelines, and the NMC have chosen this January to launch their extensively re-written ‘Code of Standards of conduct, performance and ethics for good nursing and midwifery practice’ (usually just know as ‘The […]

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Conscientious Objection and the worrying implications of the Glasgow midwives case

December 17, 2014 Written by Nursing , Start of Life

  The right for health professionals to exercise their conscientious objection to participating in abortion – or indeed to choose on occasion to limit the areas in which they work in order not to be ethically compromised – has been under assault worldwide for some […]