Higher nurse to patient ratio is linked to reduced risk of inpatient death

Higher nurse to patient ratio is linked to reduced risk of inpatient death

“Death rates in English hospitals where registered nurses cared for six or fewer patients were 20% lower than in those where they cared for more than 10, research published in the online journal BMJ Open has found.1 Researchers looked at the number of beds per...
Review of Local Safeguarding Children Boards’ role and functions

Review of Local Safeguarding Children Boards’ role and functions

Aim ·      To undertake a fundamental review of the role and function of Local Safeguarding Children Boards (LSCBs) within the context of local strategic multi-agency working, including the child death review process, and to consider how the intended centralisation of...
Flint water crisis

Flint water crisis

“After the water supply was found to contain high levels of lead, evidence is mounting that officials ignored or neglected indicators of a growing crisis….” Ryan Felton in Flint, Michigan “City’s residents, many of whom live in poverty, fear...
Hunger Games: Bee Wilson

Hunger Games: Bee Wilson

‘So many of our anxieties around diet take the form of a search for the perfect food, the one that will cure all our ills. Eat this! Don’t eat that! We obsess about the properties of various ingredients: the protein, the omega oils, the vitamins. But nutrients only...

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