Nursing Buddy

Television hospital dramas like Holby City are leading patients’ families to expect medical “miracles” with injury lawyers exploiting their unrealistic hopes, a nursing conference has heard. Medical dramas fuelling a culture of litigiousness at the Royal College of Nursing’s (RCN) annual conference in Bournemouth. Nurses also warned that a fear of being sued could lead [...]

The Liberal Democrats have been attacked for using a party employee to pose as a nurse on an election leaflet. The leaflet, promoting Cardiff North candidate John Dixon, shows him talking to a woman in nurse’s uniform. But the identity of the ‘nurse’ has been revealed as a researcher for the Liberal Democrat AM Mick [...]