How can the NHS function safely if nurse numbers are cut?

Article Abstract:

One third of all NHS trusts are under financial mismanagement, with a total NHS overspend of pounds sterling 750m. The NHS is caring for more people than ever before, and offering some of the most advanced, innovative and specialized treatments in the world and if the government decides to remove nurses then the treatment would surely suffer and removing them is only a short-term solution to a long-term problem.

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We need mavericks to save the NHS

Article Abstract:

If the British National Health Service need new ideas and entrepreneurship to survive, nurses who are creative must not be branded as maverick, but should instead be encouraged. The bureaucratic structure of rules and layers of management need to be reduced and nurses should be allowed more autonomy to try new ideas.

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Rear view

Article Abstract:

Technological advances are allowing people to live longer and healthier, but advances in medical care are expensive. The British National Health Service must increase funding or risk losing medical technology.

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