British nurses are staging a 48-hour strike and 'won't back down' in a bitter row with the government over wages and nurse-to-patient ratios. Members of the Royal College of Nurses (RCN) have walked off their jobs six times since December ...

Nurses in the UK will be trained to perform minor surgical procedures in a radical plan to slash NHS waiting times. Nurses with a minimum 18 months post registration experience will be encouraged to undertake a two-year course to become ...

Sleep pods are being installed in a number of hospitals across the NHS in the UK to help combat fatigue among health workers. The pods were first trialled by the Royal Wolverhampton NHS trust in June 2018 and a number ...

The UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson has angered nurses in the lead-up to the election slated for December this year by failing to address the immigration health surcharge (IHS) levied on nurses from outside the EU – who make up one-tenth of the ...

Australia and Scotland have longstanding cultural links and the Scots have given Australia many important historical figures. Sir George Hoist Reid for example, was the fourth prime minister of Australia. Peter Dodds McCormick, the composer of the national anthem 'Advance ...