Inverness Medical Innovations, Inc., a leading provider of near-patient diagnostics, monitoring and health management solutions, met yesterday with Ban Ki-moon, the Secretary-General of the United Nations, as part of a group of senior executives of seventeen of the world’s leading research-based and generic pharmaceutical and diagnostic companies. Inverness, together with senior officials from the United [...]

The 2008 National Audit of Cardiac Rehabilitation could not find one programme in the UK that met the minimum recommended staffing levels. The alarming shortfall is attributed to significant under-funding in 55% of the programmes.
Results of the BHF study revealed that the average patient only receives 79% of recommended nursing time, 36% of physiotherapy time [...]

School nurses are key health educators, with access to young people at a formative time in their lives.
“There is more to it than first aid,” says Mitzie Walker, RN, BSN, MSHSA, MAEd, interim director of school support for Chicago Public Schools (CPS). “We serve as a healthcare liaison from the medical profession to the schools, [...]