Nurses bogged down by red tape
Published Date: 10 October 2010
By Lyndsay Moss
NURSES in Scotland are “overloaded” with paperwork which is stopping them caring for patients, leaders of the profession have warned. The Royal College of Nursing (RCN) said evidence suggested administrative tasks take up two-thirds of nurses’ time at work.
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Nurse in A&E
Exclusive: Kate Foster
30 May 2010
Patients will be assessed by nurses instead of consultants and spend less time in hospital under controversial cutbacks to meet waiting time targets in Scotland.
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Secret NHS cuts to axe thousands of medics
Hospitals across England are planning to shed at least 650 doctors and 2,000 nurses under new cost-cutting plans
Shift handover risk to patient
Published Date: 10 April 2010
POOR handover procedures in hospitals pose a “significant risk” to patients, doctors’ representatives have claimed.
The Medical and Dental Defence Union of Scotland said there were now an increasing number of shift changes, following the launch of the European Working Time Directive, limiting the hours doctors are allowed to work.
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Scotland’s largest health board plans to reduce its nursing staff over the next five years in a bid to save £12m.
NHS GGC is unable to say yet how many nursing posts will go
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Nurses ‘too busy’ for proper care
The majority of nurses thought there were not enough staff
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More than half of nurses working in Scotland are “too busy” to provide patients with the standard of care they would like to, a union has claimed.
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