Category Archives: hospital
RCN: NHS healthcare assistants’ training ‘unacceptable’
22 September 2011 Last updated at 11:55
“This happens in some care homes and domiciliary care too.
Peter Carter said healthcare assistants were employed to help nurses with basic tasks like washing and feeding, but ended up doing much more.
FREE social networking website backed by the NHS
Help at hand for the housebound
- by Helen Rae, Evening Chronicle
- Sep 19 2011
HEALTH Reporter Helen Rae explains how an NHS backed website is improving care for patients.
A FREE social networking website backed by the NHS is improving care for housebound patients and their carers.
Justvisiting.com is a not-for-profit website which is built around a secure interactive message board which creates online visiting rooms where hospital and housebound patients and their carers can meet up and talk to their friends and family.
Police are probing a second suspected contamination incident at Stockport’s Stepping Hill Hospital
Stepping Hill: Police investigate contaminated milk
Police are probing a second suspected contamination incident at Stockport’s Stepping Hill Hospital after milk was found “spiked with bleach” on a ward.
However detectives said there was no evidence of a link to the sabotage of saline drips earlier this year.
The investigation into contaminated saline has been narrowed to focus on three deaths, police revealed earlier.