New analysis from the Migration Observatory suggests skilled visa could still be refused in the future despite recent moves to exempt doctors and nurses from the cap.
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Scrapping nurses’ bursaries was met with almost universal condemnation. But could it be a good thing?
New medical staff start in January and may not be as skilled or adept as their predecessors, meaning more things go wrong.
People working in caring professions are not superhuman.
The myth of compassion fatigue suggests that compassion is a finite resource. The reality is that health-care providers are over-worked and need better institutional support.
Drug companies funded more than 116,000 educational events for doctors over four years. Now you can find out exactly which companies footed the bills and how much they paid.
Doctors and other health professionals are too focused on rehab and not enough on secondary prevention.
We asked two academics to check Jeremy Hunt’s figures.
Nurses have taken on a surprising number of tasks that were once the preserve of doctors. And they do them exceptionally well.
Some good news for UK government policy.
Throughout the medical profession, there is a culture of fear surrounding mental illness.
Five thousand Australian nurses served during World War Two. One of them, Dorothy Campbell endured air raids and tended wounded men in freezing tents - but the war opened her eyes to a more adventurous world.
In Australia, estimates suggest undesired harmful effects from medication or other intervention such as surgery occur in around 17% of hospital admissions. But blaming the doctors won’t help.
Just because they can’t prescribe medications that does not mean nurses have no influence on important decisions for patient care.
Instead of scouring the developing world for healthcare staff, we should be doing more to help doctors and nurses arriving here as refugees to join in.
One of the UK’s most senior nurses has been forced to apologise after publicly attacking professional practice. Here’s the case for the defence.
Victoria’s Royal Commission into Family Violence will today hear how the health system can better respond to partner abuse, with the help of trained professionals and broader, government support.
There are several benefits of nurses providing input in policymaking processes. In South Africa, though, there are several barriers that prevent this.
Foreign-born nurses working in the UK do a vital job in the face of discrimination, but their recruitment helps entrench global healthcare inequality.
Nurses who moonlight admit they feel too tired to work and don’t provide the best quality of care on duty.
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Professor of Nursing, University of Hull
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Associate Professor of Nursing, University of South Florida
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Honorary Enterprise Professor, School of Population and Global Health, and Department of General Practice and Primary Care, The University of Melbourne
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Professor, Department of Health Policy, London School of Economics and Political Science
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Professor and Director, Macquarie University Centre for the Health Economy, Macquarie University
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Research Fellow, Centre for Health Economics, University of York
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Professor of Health Studies, University of Westminster
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Reader in Nursing Ethics, University of Surrey
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Emeritus Professor, La Trobe University
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Professor of Public Health, University of Sheffield
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Chair Country Health Research and Innovation, Curtin University
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Professor of Family Violence Prevention, Royal Women's Hospital and the Department of General Practice, The University of Melbourne
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Professor, Psychology of Healthcare, University of Leeds
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Chair of Health Services Research, University of Southampton
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Professor at the Police Academy, Police Academy of Lower Saxony
