27 Oct 2011
| by Chris Lancelot
In a blaze of media attention the Care Quality Commission (CQC) has lambasted nurses in NHS...management rather than the nurses.
Be warned - primary care is going the same way. Twenty years ago I ...
insult to injury, CQC registration is on the horizon - that same CQC which was censuring hospital nurses ...
District nurses, don't you just love them; if I was in the trenches, I'd want them there beside me.....
District nurses have always been magnificent and absolutely dependable colleagues. I'm not suffering ...
district nurse I've ever worked with, and over the years their advice and support have been invaluable ...
squandered, to see district nurses increasingly hamstrung by the same stultifying and ever more labyrinthine ...
14 Mar 2012
| by Chris Lancelot
Spring is coming! Put your head outside and listen to the faint sound of drumming. No, it's not woodpeckers but 40,000 GPs banging their heads repeatedly against the nearest brick wall.
11 Jan 2012
| by Mary Selby
the practice nurse attaches herself to the ECG to check her palpitations.
I see why. The man is in his ...
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The practice nurse sighs deeply and, momentarily, I share her vision of him in full Foreign Legion attire ...
singlehandedly clearly overcomes the nurse, who has put her head in the fridge, but I'm made of sterner stuff ...
, though, the practice nurse informs me that she has had something of a shock. Mrs Fester has brought her feet in for a nail trim, and they are both dry and clean. The nurse feels I need to speak to the lady ...
for the practice nurse, whose toenail task is thus immeasurably more pleasant than before.
Indeed I might have ...
07 Jul 2011
| by Liam Farrell
. The prospect of commissioning groups of GPs was bad enough, but now they've added consultants and nurses ...
for its day.
But the nurses will be an even more insurmountable problem, because we all know the kind of nurse we are going to see on these commissioning groups. It won't be the kind we meet every day ...
The practice nurse, who won the fight to do his new patient check, reported that his abdomen ...
nerve as she swooned. The commando does that to nurses.
Today he abseils through my window bearing ...
painfully. Behind me there is a crash as the practice nurse hits the floor again. Thoughtfully I check his ...
16 Jun 2011
| by Liam Farrell Best columnist: MJA Awards 2011
in this particular facility were first raised by a senior nurse; he reported his concerns to management ...
this by the care workers, while the supervising nurse stood by. The low-paid care workers will take the lion ...
antics, but the true horror was about to dawn; a nurse came along to take Gracie away for some tests ...
the clowns would notice and be offended.
Just then the nurse came back with Gracie, and I greeted her like ...
staff.
I am a top-flight manager. You are a nurse: competent and friendly. He is a GP. 'Nuff said ...
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