Call for tighter checks on private hospitals used by NHS after MRSA case

Call for tighter checks on private hospitals used by NHS after MRSA case

ByMatthew Betteridge

Labour MP Louise Haigh cites case of young patient who contracted infection while on mental health ward in Sheffield Theresa May has been urged to tighten checks on private hospitals used by the NHS after a Labour MP raised the case of a young patient with an open wound who contracted MRSA on a private mental health…

Nurses could train to become doctors by doing ‘part-time’ medical degrees

Nurses could train to become doctors by doing ‘part-time’ medical degrees

ByMatthew Betteridge

Nurses could train to become doctors by doing “part-time degrees” under radical proposals to increase the number of medics. Health officials on Wednesday said they were looking at ways to encourage nurses, pharmacists, and physios to train to become doctors while they earned. Professor Ian Cumming, head of Health Education England, said “the concept of…