Nursing - News January 13, 2014

Cumbrian nursing chief blames Government over failure to hit A&E targets - News and Star

Both the Cumberland Infirmary in Carlisle and the West Cumberland Hospital in Whitehaven have seen a rise people attending A&E.

DeTar volunteer group donates $10,000 for VC nursing scholarships - The Victoria Advocate

The volunteers operate two gift shops at DeTar Hospital Navarro and DeTar Hospital North.

'Good progress over hospitals' in East Lancashire - Blackburn Citizen

THE Royal Blackburn and Burnley General hospitals have been in special measures for nearly six months now, but bosses insist they have made good progress on addressing the problems.

Morning news headlines for January 13, 2014 - IcNetwork

The UK is in danger of surpassing 2007 predictions that half the population will be obese by 2050 while 12 Years A Slave wins best movie drama at the Golden Globes Predictions that half the British population will be obese by 2050 "underestimate" the scale of the obesity crisis, a report suggests.

Inquest into boy's hospital death - Mid Devon Star

Sean Turner died in March 2012 from a brain haemorrhage after previously suffering a cardiac arrest while a patient at the hospital - six weeks after he underwent vital corrective heart surgery.

Medics 'must say sorry for errors' - Salisbury Journal

Jeremy Hunt said he hopes new guidelines will help end the "closed and defensive culture" in parts of the NHS Doctors and nurses should be honest when things go wrong and "say sorry" to patients, according to the health secretary.

CHC nursing director resigns; nursing shortfall at 44 - Saipan Tribune

After two years as nursing director of the Commonwealth Health Center, Leticia Reyes has left the position for undisclosed reasons.

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