Nurses training to work as junior doctors in hard-to-staff hospitals as part of UK-first pilot

Nurses training to work as junior doctors in hard-to-staff hospitals as part of UK-first pilot

ByMatthew Betteridge

This article was taken from: http://www.independent.co.uk/news/nhs-nurses-junior-doctors-training-work-hospitals-staff-shortages-uk-pilot-crisis-latest-a8147711.html  By Alex Matthews-King Health Corresponden Hospital trust says it is an alternative to the ‘traditional medical model which is hard to recruit to’, particularly in remote areas Nurses are being trained for roles that would usually be performed by doctors, as part of a pioneering pilot to tackle medical workforce shortages in more remote…

Nurses still waiting for millions of pounds owed in holiday pay

Nurses still waiting for millions of pounds owed in holiday pay

ByMatthew Betteridge

Nurses in the north and north-east could still be owed millions of pounds in backdated holiday pay, it has emerged. Health chiefs were under fire last night over “unacceptable” delays in handing over the payments to frontline staff. It follows a Press and Journal investigation which found that health boards in Highland, Grampian, Orkney and…

Half of Scottish nurses warn care damaged by staff shortages

Half of Scottish nurses warn care damaged by staff shortages

ByMatthew Betteridge

The SNP’s Health Minister is under growing pressure over severe staff shortages in Scotland’s NHS after half of nurses reported that patient care was “compromised” on their most recent shift. A survey by the Royal College of Nursing (RCN) found a third of staff reported there were not enough registered nurses available and a quarter…

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…