Where Are All the Nurses?

redorbit.com     May 13, 2008            

IT is indicative of today's NHS that a hospital trust can spend Pounds 450,000 hiring a new accounts team - and then leave just one nurse in charge of a 30-patient ward. ... Yet this is precisely what Scarborough and North East Yorkshire Healthcare NHS Trust, an... [read full story]                    

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Cut Out Bugs, Say 'Nurses'

redorbit.com     May 12, 2008          

LIFE-size cardboard nurses are the latest tool in the battle against infection in hospitals, according to one NHS Trust. United Lincolnshire Hospitals NHS Trust is officially launching the use of the new "nurses" which play recorded messages telling people to clean their hands.                    

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Cardboard nurses will dispense free advice on wards

arbroath.blogspot.com     May 12, 2008          

Cardboard nurses are asking patients and visitors to wash their hands at hospital wards in Lincolnshire. The new cut-out nurses contain a recorded message activated by movement as people walk past. The message asks people to clean their hands on arrival and before leaving...                    

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Only One Nurse on Hospital Ward for Weekend

redorbit.com     May 13, 2008          

ONLY one nurse was on duty on a Yorkshire hospital ward for an entire weekend as patients fall victim to health service cuts. Union leaders say they are considering reporting Scarborough and North East Yorkshire Healthcare NHS Trust to the professional standards body for nursing.                    

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Ward Had Only One Nurse on Duty ; E Yorks: Patients on a Ward at Bridlington Hospital Were Left...

redorbit.com     May 13, 2008          

E Yorks: Patients on a ward at Bridlington Hospital were left with just one nurse on duty earlier this month, it was revealed today. Scarborough and North East Yorkshire Healthcare Trust, which runs the hospital, admitted Kent Ward had a single nurse on duty.                    

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Campaign Gears Up for March Against Hospital Cuts ; Bridlington: Organisers Are Calling on People...

redorbit.com     May 14, 2008          

Posted on: Wednesday, 14 May 2008, 00:00 CDT Bridlington: Organisers are calling on people to join a protest march against cuts at Bridlington Hospital. Mick Pilling, chairman of Save Bridlington Hospital Action Group is calling on people to turn out in their thousands on Saturday, July 26. It...                    

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