'Lansley must listen to nurses on the front line' Nursing Times
Gabriel Fleming
Online editor
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Do you want a national nurses' uniform, or just a clean one?
17-Apr-2010
Recent developments in nurse uniforms have provoked a furious debate among readers. Beyond the Bedpan stokes the fire -
Nurses - stop slacking and get back to work
1-Apr-2010
Nurses are lazy, sickie-taking slackers who are about to bring down the NHS. There, we said it. -
Guns don't kill people, Facebook does
27-Mar-2010
Beyond the Bedpan delves into the murky depths of Facebook, and things may never be the same again. -
Are you a saint, or a sinner?
5-Mar-2010
As the dust settles over Mid Staffs and the PM’s commission, the battle for the public perception of nursing rages on. Are you a Nurse Jackie? Or more of a Carry On? Beyond the Bedpan tries to make sense of it all, and fails miserably. -
'Immune to the sound of pain' - Why the lessons of Mid Staffs must never be forgotten
27-Feb-2010
The NHS is still reeling from the catastrophic care failures uncovered at Stafford Hospital. Beyond the Bedpan has one question - what now? -
'Give us better wages and more staff, then we'll see better results' - Nurses attack the PM's commission
20-Feb-2010
The ill-advised ‘pledge’ in a leaked draft of the Prime Minister’s Commission on the future of nursing and Midwifery has got readers as angry as they’ve ever been. Beyond the Bedpan doesn’t blame them. -
Nurse struck off for assaulting patient
11-Feb-2010
A Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC) disciplinary committee has struck off a nurse accused of assaulting a patient at Raigmore Hospital in Inverness. -
Nazi nurses and Facebook fiends
29-Jan-2010
Beyond the Bedpan is left reeling by an attack on our ‘Nazi’ NHS - by a woman who advises the Conservative party on health policy. -
'Nurses have become too important for basic care', and other nonsense
22-Jan-2010
With a patronising nod and a proverbial pat on the bottom, nurses are put firmly in their place by an angry GP from the internet. As far as Beyond the Bedpan is concerned, this just got personal. -
RCN welcomes new standards for STI management
22-Jan-2010
The Royal College of Nursing today welcomed the launch of new guidelines on sexually transmitted infections, produced by the Medical Foundation for AIDS and Sexual Health (MedFASH) and the British Association for Sexual Health and HIV (BASHH). -
Is the Daily Mail bad for your health?
15-Jan-2010
If you need health advice, Beyond the Bedpan recommends the Daily Mail. Provided, of course, that you are not making it up. -
Snow excuse for skiving off work
8-Jan-2010
In case you hadn’t noticed, it’s a bit cold outside. The weather is so bad that many nurses are struggling to get to work, and Beyond the Bedpan is sympathetic to their plight. If only managers felt the same way. -
'Gentle and kind' nurse on trial for killing brain damaged son
6-Jan-2010
A nurse is on trial for giving her brain damaged son a lethal dose of heroin. -
Nurses' jobs are safe - their pay is not
11-Dec-2009
Beyond the Bedpan is struggling to see the logic in the government’s decision to restrict nurses’ earning power -
Women's magazines give 'dangerous' complementary medicines advice
8-Dec-2009
Articles on complementary medicines in women’s lifestyle and health magazines are overwhelmingly written by contributors with no medical qualifications, and do not take account of dangerous drug and herb interactions, according to research published in Nursing Times. -
Nurses more likely to divorce
7-Dec-2009
People who work in nursing and other caring professions are more likely than others to separate from their partners, according to research. -
It's sex, kids, but not as you know it
4-Dec-2009
Beyond the Bedpan is left red-faced by a bewildering array of contraception methods -
Anger after nurse is strangled by patient in mental health unit
26-Nov-2009
A London mental health unit has been criticised for under-staffing and lack of security after a nurse was strangled by a patient while on duty. -
Video: Should nursing be an all graduate profession?
20-Nov-2009
Nursing Times caught up with nurses at the 2009 Nursing Times Awards to ask what they thought of plans to make nursing an all-graduate profession. -
Nurses need degrees, like a hole in the head
20-Nov-2009
Do you need to go to university before you become a nurse? Beyond the Bedpan tries desperately to sit on the fence, but readers’ minds appear to be made up -
Nursing Times Awards 2009
20-Nov-2009
All the highlights from the 2009 Nursing Times Awards -
RCN criticised for lack of leadership on assisted suicide
18-Nov-2009
A leading professor of nursing has questioned the RCN’s decision to move to a neutral position on assisted suicide -
Are student nurses too posh to wash?
6-Nov-2009
The debate over what student nurses should and should not do on clinical placements has given Beyond the Bedpan plenty to think about -
'Clearing up poo will not help me learn' - student nurses reject basic care
3-Nov-2009
Student nurses are rejecting essential elements of bedside care because they feel it is not a worthwhile learning experience, research published by Nursing Times has found. -
Childhood continence query prompts parliamentary question
2-Nov-2009
Health minister Ann Keen has admitted that the government does not have any new plans for childhood continence services -
Nurses will be replaced by evil robots - you have been warned
30-Oct-2009
Following a fine tradition of blowing a legitimate topic of debate out of all proportion, Beyond the Bedpan has its say on downgrading nurse roles. It’s not pretty -
RCN votes to scrap charitable status
29-Oct-2009
The Royal College of Nursing has voted in favour of changing the RCN’s legal status so it is no longer a charity, and establishing a charitable foundation as a separate body. -
Mountains of the Moon, legacy of a star, and fun and games with the BNP
23-Oct-2009
The BNP, Jade Goody and a royal drama - it can only be Beyond the Bedpan time. The weekend starts here -
A win for the whistleblowers, and how to look odd naked
16-Oct-2009
Beyond the Bedpan throws its considerable weight behind Margaret Haywood, waves a patronising finger at the NMC, and is dumbfounded by a ‘tanorexic’ -
SIDS advice ignored by a quarter of mothers
14-Oct-2009
Many parents are ignoring warnings over co-sleeping with babies, despite a study concluding that it is a factor in over half of sudden infant death sysdrome (SIDS) cases -
Hospital staff reinstated after 'lying down game' suspensions
14-Oct-2009
Staff suspended from a Swindon hospital for playing internet game the ‘lying down game’ while on duty have been reinstated. -
Why women want to be men, and the hospital that thinks it's a zoo
10-Oct-2009
After a recent and well-deserved dressing down from readers, Beyond the Bedpan keeps a low profile by questioning women’s place in society and cockroaches’ place in Scottish hospitals -
Nursing home horrors, and why students will never be the same again
2-Oct-2009
More pointless frivolity as Beyond the Bedpan goes where proper journalists fear to tread. This week, why old folk are right to be suspicious of nursing homes, and how the RCN pooped the student nurse party -
Brown pledges free personal care for those most in need
29-Sep-2009
Prime Minister Gordon Brown has pledged universal personal care for those with the ‘highest needs’ -
HIV breakthrough as trial vaccine cuts risk of infection
28-Sep-2009
HIV researchers have made a major breakthrough with the discovery of a vaccine that can significantly reduce the risk of infection -
Knicker-twanging dentist struck off, and when tweets go too far
25-Sep-2009
In our weekly round-up of high jinx, unintended comedy and general inappropiateness from the world of health care, Beyond the Bedpan is happy to see the back of a nurse-hassling dentist, and has a cautionary tale on the terrors of Twitter -
Lying down on the job, and how a nurse was slain by dragons
12-Sep-2009
In a new regular column reporting from the more obscure frontiers of the nursing world, Beyond the Bedpan looks at how a group of A&E nurses took an internet craze too far, and how a bright idea was buried in the Dragon’s Den -
Three more swine flu deaths as UK cases reach 7,500
7-Jul-2009
Three more swine flu deaths have been confirmed in the UK -
First swine flu death reported in London
3-Jul-2009
NHS London has announced the death of a teenager in London, the first swine flu fatality in the capital -
Swine flu 'declining', says Mexican government
3-May-2009
The swine flu outbreak in Mexico has peaked, according to the country’s health minister.
