Tag: Nursing Crisis

NHS nursing is in a dire state and social care is in crisis, but Dr Roger Watson and Prof Mark Hayter are confident it's not because nurses now all go to university. They set out their case.

To fix social care we need to return to the principles laid down by Florence Nightingale, says Dr Ann Bradshaw – principles recklessly cast aside in the 1980s when nursing began its shift to being a graduate profession.

The UK’s main university application body is still imposing vaccine mandates on students applying for nursing and social care courses, despite the sector struggling to fill a staff shortage of tens of thousands.

The latest NHS leadership review fails to focus on improving patient care and reinforces the impression that the NHS is captive to a management elite which resists all change in an institution sick from top to bottom.

We're publishing a guest post on the Daily Sceptic by Dr. Ann Bradshaw, a retired Lecturer in Adult Health Care, about the scandal of the Government's failed efforts to import nurses from Kenya.