Victoria Thompson

Recent stories

• 

  You love your job AND you want to be paid for it?

  Beyond the Bedpan has come to realise that money is a great motivator. It gives us time and comfort and keeps us in gin and tonic and kettle chips. So why are nurses expected to do their jobs for free?

  8-Oct-2010 | Comments (30)

• 

  May I recommend a White Lightning with your pot noodle, sir?

  Bank holiday is a boozy time for a lot of us. Beyond the Bedpan loves nothing more than a lazy BBQ and a glass of wine. And we’d barely recovered from our bank holiday binge when we stumbled across two alcohol stories that seemed to contradict one another.

  3-Sep-2010 | Comments (9)

• 

  Lights, camera, Bristol Stool Chart...

  Beyond the Bedpan had always felt that the portrayal of nurses on television was a bit hit and miss to say the least. If it’s not images of saucy nurses romping about with the doctors then it’s subservient, silent handmaidens.

  7-Aug-2010 | Comments (13)

• Just pop your trousers on the stool and we'll take a look...

  23-Jul-2010 | Comments (1)

• Painting the ward blue and other dubious ways to beat the recession

  9-Jul-2010 | Comments (5)

• Why talk to a patient when you can breathalyse one?

  26-Jun-2010 | Comments (28)

• Robot nurses: sent to destroy?

  18-Jun-2010 | Comments (9)

• NHS services iPhone app launched

  15-Jun-2010 | Comments (2)

• Older people missing benefits of hand holding, warns psychologist

  6-Jun-2010 | Comments (4)

• 'I was shocked at how little drug education was involved'

  4-Jun-2010

• More