An indebted hospital trust paid its interim chief executive as much for three months’ work as it would have cost to employ eight nurses for a year. He was paid more for one day’s work than a nurse earns in a month.
A nurse who was having an affair with a patient joked that she would have to fit him with an oxygen mask while they had sex, the Nursing and Midwifery Council has heard.
Taking anti-addiction drugs can reduce an obese person’s weight by as much as 6% in combination with dieting and exercise, researchers in the US have claimed.
New medical assessments for nurses with a caution or conviction for an alcohol or drug related offence must help people to address any underlying health conditions, a union has warned.
The amount of time people spend sitting down, not just the amount of physical activity they undertake, can affect their risk of dying early, US research has found.