A new UK survey finds that half of all nurses have been accidentally jabbed with a needle, leading to calls for improvements in training and the use of safer needles.

By Steffan Rhys's PRIME Minister Gordon Brown said in his New Year's speech that 2008 was "the year in which we demonstrate beyond a doubt that the NHS is as vital for our next 60 years as it was for our last".

Nurses' leaders have hit back at a peer who last night branded them "grubby, drunken and promiscuous" during a debate in the House of Lords.

A HARROGATE-BASED skin specialist is one of the first to be awarded the first aesthetic medicine skin scholarship by the Royal College of Nursing.

For many people, the festive holidays were not full of cheer, as they were spent in the care of our hospitals and in care homes.