The Conservative Government awarded a pay rise of 1.5% for 2018/2019 in England for consultants. However, the uplift for the 2003 consultant contract was ...
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NHS nurses, midwives, managers and directors pay scales for 2016/2017
Nurses and midwives in England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland have received a 1% pay increase for 2016/2017 after the four UK governments accepted t...
Learning from mistakes – a vital skill
“Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.” This quote from philosopher, George Santayana, is often applied to nation states bu...
Focus your energies on what you can change
Last week, entry to the Foundation Programme was thrown into chaos after marking errors were discovered in its situational judgement tests. The tests have ...
Knowing when you are out of your depth
I stood over my four-month-old patient, syringe of morphine in hand, concerned parent looking on, anxious nurse gently restraining the child. That’s when...
You have to be big enough to apologise
The reaction to the much-parodied video of Deputy Prime Minister, Nick Clegg, not to mention other recent penitents such as footballer Ashley Cole (to the ...
Self-reflection helps overcome professional crisis
This week, the GMC revealed that the likelihood that it would investigate a doctor had increased from one in 68 in 2010 to one in 64 in 2011 after another ...
Plan the steps necessary to achieving your goals
From inserting a urinary catheter to assessing a newly-admitted patient, during a busy hospital shift, you can expect to be bombarded with tasks from the m...
Maximising a doctor’s potential to succeed
There are few things worse than being stuck in traffic when you have an appointment. If you are anything like me, your pulse increases, tell-tale beads of ...