A&E corridor care is destroying staff morale, nurses warn
Emergency nurses have issued fresh warnings about rising numbers of patients being treated in corridors and waiting rooms, as A&E departments become more and more stretched.
Q&A: the benefits of digital technologies in nursing
For International Nurses Day, we spoke to two nurses who are passionate about the use of digital technologies in healthcare and the benefit they have for people receiving care.
Celebrating International Nurses Day 2023
This International Nurses Day, we’re celebrating all the nursing professionals and students across the UK who work tirelessly to improve people’s health and wellbeing.
Number of repeat prescriptions ordered via NHS App up by 92% in the last year
More than 500,000 repeat prescriptions are now booked through the NHS App every week. New figures released by NHS England show that since the NHS App’s launch in December 2018, more than 42 million repeat prescriptions have been ordered through the app.
Tackling the crisis in general practice
The Health Foundation’s report on the Commonwealth Fund’s 2022 international health policy survey of primary care physicians in 10 countries makes for sobering reading.1 Illustrating some worrying trends, its standout findings include rising workloads, higher levels of burnout, and worsening job satisfaction. Strikingly, UK general practitioners score lowest of all countries in terms of satisfaction with the amount of time they spend with patients. Most (71%) find their work extremely or very st
NHS progress on waiting list despite busiest winter on record
The number of people waiting longest for elective treatment has dropped for the third month in a row as services dealt with the busiest winter on record, new figures show. The NHS has continued to progress against its elective recovery plan, with the number of people waiting more than 18 months for elective care dropping by a third between January and February to 30,000 (29,778), while the number of patients waiting more than one year dropped by 17,000 to 362,498.
