Nursing - News September 7, 2013

East Lancashire health bosses welcome competence checks for nursing staff (Blackburn Citizen)
In a shake-up of the current three-yearly checks, the Nursing and Midwifery Council wants to see involvement from the third parties before declaring staff fit to work.

Payoffs totalling 4.6m for more than 90 Winchester health staff (Romsey Advertiser)
A HAMPSHIRE hospital trust has spent A 4.6m on redundancy payouts since a merger, but more skilled staff are needed in key areas.

First Quintuplets Born At U-M Hospital (CBS Local)
In a first at the University of Michigan, five babies - a set of quintuplets - were born at C.S. Mott Children's Hospital and Von Voigtlander Women's Hospital on September 5. Jessica Hicks, 28, and husband Robert Hicks, 31, of the Fenton-area in southeastern Michigan, are the overjoyed parents of three boys and two girls and all are doing well and ... (more)

Trust in danger of financial crisis (Redditch Standard)
THE TRUST which runs the Alexandra Hospital is facing a financial crisis after revealing it is in danger of running up a A 12million deficit.

Miami doctor to receive nursing award (Local10)
A Miami doctor will receive the Florence Nightingale Medal, which recognizes exceptional courage and devotion to victims of armed conflict or natural disaster and exemplary service or a "pioneering spirit" in areas of public health or nursing education.

LICH Resumes Ambulance Service, de Blasio Declares Victory (WNYC-AM New York)
Ambulances are once again bringing patients into Long Island College Hospital in Brooklyn for the first time in two months.

Midwife on a mission to Sudan (Swindon Advertiser)
SWINDON midwife Becky Millar has flown out to South Sudan to spend a month helping in a country that has one of the highest death rates among new born babies and mothers in the world.

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