Sharon Watson

Trusts block right to see medical notes: A third of CHCs have taken up cases on behalf of patients

MIDWIFE Amanda Shaw is among thousands of angry patients and relatives who claim they have been given the runaround by GPs and hospitals over access to medical records.

New faces hope to raise profile of nursing issues: New ANS executive members Nicole Smith and Jonathan Crewe take their places

Two new faces on the ANS executive this year are Nicole Smith and Jonathan Crowe.

Nurses in rush to volunteer help following Omagh bomb: 'deeply traumatised' nurses worked on despite their fears for friends and family in saturday's terrorist attack

Nurses flocked from both sides of the border to help treat casualties from Saturdays bombing in Omagh, Co Tyrone.

Work-related asthma rockets: New report shows worrying trend as nurses are advised to look out for signs of work-related asthma in patients

NURSES ARE ideally placed to help the government in its battle against the alarming rise in occupational asthma, according to an asthma charity. Ministers now consider the problem a health priority.

Nurse with criminal past loses job offer: Nurse with spent conviction looks for justice after job offer withdrawn

A SOMERSET nurse has turned to his MP for justice after he lost a job opportunity clue to a spent conviction.

Stars of BBC's health visiting documentary face service cuts: Gloucestershire health visiting service faces swingeing cuts under health authority plans to save £300,000

A HEALTH visiting service which recently featured in a BBC documentary faces sweeping cuts that could put the whole service under threat.

Diana cash to fund HIV project in India: Great ormond st project in memory of princess funds residential community in Bombay

A British nurse is helping families in india live with HIV in a unique project inspired by the late Princess of Wales.

Nurses rush to help in omagh bomb atrocity: Nurses struggle to deal with casualties following bomb attack in N Ireland

N urses flocked from both sides of the border to help treat casualties from Saturdays bombing in Omagh, Co Tyrone.