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Adult hospices across Birmingham and Solihull have come together to create a “single hub” in order to try and provide the “very best care” at end of life in the current COVID-19 crisis. The telephone hotline initiative is called HoBS – Hospices of Birmingham and Solihull – and features John Taylor, Birmingham St Mary’s and the Marie Curie Hospice, West Midlands. Based at Joh...

State of the World’s Nursing 2020 provides the first-ever detailed analysis of nursing across the globe with contributions from more than 190 countries. Written by the World Health Organization (WHO) in partnership with the International Council of Nurses (ICN) and Nursing Now, the report placed the global nurse headcount at 28 million, with a shortage of 5.9 million. Speaki...

COVID-19, the disease caused by a new coronavirus that emerged in China late last year, is spreading rapidly around the world. The illness, the main symptoms of which are high temperature and/or a new continuous cough, has already caused thousands of deaths. While anyone can become seriously ill with the disease, people with certain health conditions, including lung disease ...

The Government has introduced emergency legislation so that we can temporarily register fit, proper and suitably experienced people if they want to practise and felt able to do so. We launched our Covid-19 temporary register on Friday 27 March 2020, following the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care advising us that the UK is in an emergency situation with the threa...

More than 1,000 volunteer therapists have signed up to provide free mental health support to NHS workers during the coronavirus pandemic. A group of therapists set up the website frontline19.com so doctors, nurses and other NHS staff can access counselling services online during the COVID-19 lockdown. Organisers said 2,000 NHS staff had registered for help in the first three...

In just a matter of weeks, legal and regulatory changes have been negotiated and set in motion to rapidly and drastically expand the nursing workforce ready for a massive surge in demand. A national appeal was made for those who have left the profession in the last three years to return to practice, along with those on the register but in non-clinical roles, and students wer...

As part of the national effort to combat coronavirus, doctors, nurses and paramedics will automatically have their visas extended, free of charge, for one year. The extension, announced today (31 March) by the Home Secretary Priti Patel, will apply to around 2,800 migrant doctors, nurses and paramedics, employed by the NHS whose visa is due to expire before 1 October. The ex...

Exceptional travel advisory notices Return to the UK now if you’re travelling abroad The Foreign & Commonwealth Office (FCO) advises British people travelling abroad to return to the UK now, if commercial flights are still available. International travel is becoming very limited as air routes close, land borders close and new restrictions are put in place that prevents fligh...

The novel coronavirus epidemic has started on December 8th,2019 in Wuhan, China. As of 23rd March, there were 81,093 reported cases in total out of which 72,703 cases are succesfully recovered . In its beginning, over 60 million people were under restricted order of movement by the Chinese government. These also include wearing of masks in public and an increase of healthcar...

  Although the government hasn’t yet specifically advised all businesses to follow suit and adopt remote working, Prime Minister Boris Johnson said enforced home working could be an option if the situation worsens. The coronavirus sweeping across the globe has led to the largest mass exercise in remote working in corporate history.  The impetus for staff to work from home ha...