No way out
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The number of suicides in prisons in England and Wales has grown by 107% from 29 in 1985 to 60 in 1994, while the prison population has risen by only 14% during that period. Pressure group Prison Watch believes that a major factor behind the number of suicides is the poor level of health care offered to prisoners. Prison Watch coordinator Tim Taggett says that many health-care officers have had only basic first-aid training. Prison Watch is calling for a full-time doctor in all prisons, backed by fully trained nursing staff, and for the full-time doctor to be a psychiatrist.
Publication Name: Nursing Times
Subject: Health
ISSN: 0954-7762
Year: 1995
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Conservative estimates
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There are currently just over 30,000 fewer nurses in training in the UK than there were in the mid-1980s, and the number of nurses and midwives employed in the NHS fell by 13.4% in the period 1985-1995. There was a 56% rise in the number of qualified staff leaving the NHS to work in private hospitals, clinics and nursing homes in the period 1990-1995. All these factors have left the NHS with a severe staff shortage. The RCN believes that this situation will get worse unless the government takes urgent action.
Publication Name: Nursing Times
Subject: Health
ISSN: 0954-7762
Year: 1996
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Care crisis hits nursing homes
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A growing number of owners of private nursing homes in the UK are now facing bankruptcy as a result of pressure from local authorities to reduce their charges, according to the Registered Nursing Home Association (RNHA). They are becoming very short of skilled nursing staff, and many observers believe that standards of care will inevitably decline. NHS hospitals are being prevented from discharging elderly patients because local authorities are no longer willing to meet the costs of nursing home care.
Publication Name: Nursing Times
Subject: Health
ISSN: 0954-7762
Year: 1996
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