Monthly Archives: April 2011
Full time carer writes novel with bite
A CARER who took up writing to fill in her spare time is celebrating the publication of her first novel.
Michelle Birbeck, 27, had high hopes of being an author when she was at school but as she got older “life got in the way”.
A Nurses view on Personal Budgets
‘Initially I was scpetical about personal budgets, I thought – what’s the catch?’
Steve Palmer talks nurses’ personal budgets, integrating health and social care and best practice
Personal budgets might be new to some; I’ve been lucky enough to have been working with them for those three years. It’s all about performing a wider role as a nurse. It’s also about being a CPN and integrating health and social care because health needs have an impact on social care needs.
Patients could be at risk from unregulated ‘cheap’ healthcare workers
Patients could be at risk from unregulated ‘cheap’ healthcare workers
Patients could be left at risk from a growing number of unqualified and unregulated healthcare workers, it has been claimed.
By Martin Beckford, Health Correspondent 7:00AM BST 20 Apr 2011
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There are at least 150,000 healthcare assistants working in hospitals and care homes, often carrying out important roles such as washing and feeding patients, and more are being employed as a cheap alternative to more experienced clinical staff.
But unlike doctors, nurses and midwives, there are no training requirements for healthcare assistants and support staff and no watchdog to discipline those that break rules, meaning that those who are sacked can simply move to another employer.
