The NR workforce

NR Times speaks with leading figures from across health and social care to discover the scale of the crisis and what can be done

Healthcare workers are heroes, saving lives and ensuring injuries and illnesses are dealt with correctly and promptly. With all their skills and training comes long working hours, sometimes without sleep. Because of this, they may experience emotional, mental and physical exhaustion, commonly referred to as burnout. It’s important that those who feel the effects of [...]

BABICM's membership reveal the scale and breadth of the challenges they face

Registered Nurses play a vital role in the specialist care for those living with Huntington’s, particularly those in the later stages of the disease.

A care and rehab community has committed to providing at least the National Living Wage for its frontline care workers, as it seeks to remould perceptions of the care industry - a sector often portrayed as underpaid. Askham Village Community, a specialist family-run care and rehabilitation community, near Doddington, has unveiled the new package, which [...]

That is according to the British Society of Rehabilitation Medicine, which has set out how the rehab field moves forward after current events. Its paper, Rehabilitation in the wake of Covid-19: A phoenix from the ashes, focuses on the anticipated increased demand for rehab post Covid-19. It explains: “Covid-19 has led to a pandemic that is increasing the burden of disease and disability throughout the world. It has brought many challenges and has caused major disruption to services. But we have also learned some new ways of doing things. As the NHS re-boots, there is an opportunity to rebuild services on a better, more collaborative, model.