A matter of birth and death: A report reveals that sub-standard care still contributes to maternal death
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Maternal death affects over 100 families every year, and the maternal death rate has not fallen since the 1993 Confidential Enquiry into Maternal Deaths (CEMD). The 1998 CEMD report states that much antenatal care is excellent, but emphasizes the failure to refer cases such as ectopic pregnancy, pulmonary embolism and pre-eclampsia. Blood clotting is a common cause of maternal death and the nurses, midwives and doctors must be prepared for the rare deviations from the normal pregnancy symptoms.
Publication Name: Nursing Times
Subject: Health
ISSN: 0954-7762
Year: 1998
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When your're smiling: Even a grilling by the health select committee couldn't wipe the smile off health secretary Frank Dobson's face
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Health secretary Frank Dobson admitted that there was a crisis in NHS staffing, during an appearance before the House of Commons health select committee. He noted a need to find out exactly how big the problem was in the first stage of solving nursing shortages, and there are plans for trusts to report shortages. He pointed to the situation where managers cannot introduce flexible working conditions as they do not have sufficient staff in the first place, and nurses in turn, are leaving.
Publication Name: Nursing Times
Subject: Health
ISSN: 0954-7762
Year: 1999
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The radical rabbi: Rabbi Julia Neuberger, the new chief executive of the King's Fund, plans to shake up the way the fund operates
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Rabbi Julia Neuberger is the new chief executive of the King's Fund in London, the country's top health think tank. Rabbi Neuberger has strong opinions on the nursing profession and plans aggressive changes for the King's Fund, to alter the compartmentalization of nursing there. The new post will allow Rabbi Neuberger to indulge her passion for ethics, a subject on which she has spoken widely.
Publication Name: Nursing Times
Subject: Health
ISSN: 0954-7762
Year: 1998
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