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Nurses are being told not to call older patients "dearie" or "love" as they are deemed as offensive under new guidelines from the Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC).
Nurses have been told to use patients' preferred names and should speak "courteously and respectfully" to ensure dignity in care according to the NMC recommendations.
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An MEP has called for an inquiry into claims that two Merseyside hospitals passed on confidential patient medical records to ambulance-chasing lawyers. Have you been ‘harrassed’ by text messages from accident claim companies? Are hospitals or their employees passing on confidential patient information?
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The case of whistleblower Margaret Haywood has generated huge controversy. Miss Haywood, a 58 year old nurse from Liverpool, secretly filmed the goings-on at her hospital and exposed the neglect of elderly patients for a BBC Panorama documentary. She has since been struck off for misconduct by the Nursing and Midwifery Council after appearing before a disciplinary panel. What do you feel about whistle blowing in general and Miss Haywood’s case in particular? Does the punishment fit the crime?
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David Cameron last week ordered health and social care services to be brought together, in a move which government advisers are calling the NHS’s most urgent overhaul. But do you think this will meet all the needs of the ageing population? What effect, if any, do you think this will have on healthcare?
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New figures have shown that the NHS spent ?350 million on external management consultants in the last financial year.
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Consumer group Which? have found that 70% of people who used an NHS car park in the last two years found that the experience made their visit stressful.
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