Nurse news

• ‘It’s shocking’: senior nurse tells of acute pressure on NHS 111

  06-05-2022 11:00
  
  Telephone service desperate for clinicians as call numbers surge to unworkable levels, says insiderThe NHS cannot cope with the growing need for care, long delays for treatment are now routine and the staffing crisis is so acute that retired doctors are now being asked to come back and work in hospitals.Here, a senior nurse describes how the NHS 111 telephone advice service – an important source of urgent medical advice and way of taking the pressure off A&E – is increasingly una
  
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• Maggie Wilcox obituary

  06-05-2022 10:48
  
  The phrase “I’ve been Maggied” came into being in the world of breast cancer clinical research to describe the effect that my friend Maggie Wilcox had on helping scientists and clinicians to see the light and listen to patients.Maggie, who has died aged 79, was a founding member and first president of Independent Cancer Patients Voice (ICPV), a patient-led organisation that tries to bring the views of cancer patients, their families and carers to the forefront of cancer researc
  
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