Nursing - News April 13, 2011

Nurses 'no confidence' in Lansley (Hampshire Chronicle)
Nurses have voted overwhelmingly in favour of a motion saying they have no confidence in Health Secretary Andrew Lansley's management of NHS reforms.

Nurses 'no confidence' in Lansley (BBC)
Nurses have passed a motion of no confidence in the health secretary. Some 96% of 497 delegates at the Royal College of Nursing conference backed a motion questioning Andrew Lansley's handling of NHS reforms in England.

PM in NHS plea to voluntary groups (Hampshire Chronicle)
David Cameron has urged voluntary health organisations to help the Government reassure people that controversial NHS reforms are "not about privatisation". The Prime Minister held a round-table session with representatives from health charities at Downing Street as part of the coalition's "listening exercise" on the NHS reforms.

Skilled Healthcare Says May Sell Itself, Shares Up (The Post Chronicle)
Nursing home operator Skilled Healthcare Group Inc said late Monday that it was exploring strategic alternatives, including a potential sale of the company, sending its shares up about 14 percent to a year high.

Indiana panel OKs criminal checks on medical workers (IBJ.COM)
Physicians, dentists, nurses, veterinarians, pharmacists and other medical workers would have to undergo a criminal background check when applying for a new state license under a bill approved Tuesday by an Indiana House committee.

HHS in Campaign to Cut Hospital Errors (WLTI-FM Syracuse)
Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius on Tuesday announced a national program to help save 63,000 lives and up to $35 billion in health care costs over the next three years by preventing hospital-related injuries.

Nanuet nursing home workers protest staff cuts (The Journal News)
Employees of Northern Manor Multicare Center in Nanuet picket outside the facility Monday.

In Vitro Fertilization Gives Couple Two Sets of Identical Twins (WISW-AM Columbia)
"Babies, babies, babies." That's how Miranda and Josh Crawford now describe a typical day after their two sets of identical twins -- quadruplets in all -- joined their two-year-old sister in February.

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