News Round-Up
26 July 2024
Government Has Just Declared War on Free Speech
26 July 2024
by Toby Young
The nursing and midwifery council has banned 'misgendering' in its first 'free speech' guidance for practitioners. While broadly backing free speech on political issues, it draws a line at anything said to individuals.
Nurses are free to criticise lockdowns and vaccines, the Nursing and Midwifery Council has confirmed. But Roger Watson says it shouldn't haven taken eight months to reach this decision and clear his name.
Standards of numeracy in nursing have been falling years, say registered nurses Roger Watson and Niall McCrae. Is that why most nurses have uncritically parroted the Government's dubious pandemic claims?
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 an original post on the Daily Sceptic today by Dr. Anne Bradshaw, a retired Lecturer in Adult Health Care, about Britain's nursing shortage and why the authorities' plans to address it are inadequate.
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