'Lansley must listen to nurses on the front line' Beyond the Bedpan
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Beyond the Bedpan
The NHS is about to get a lot funnier
With Andrew Lansley out of favour with nurses, Beyond the Bedpan decided it was time to start looking for a new health secretary
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?
An open letter to the leaders of the NHS
When nursingtimes.net wrote about nurses being offered immunity from redundancy if they agreed to have their Agenda for Change pay increments frozen, comments from readers came flooding in.
Are you fat? Or just a victim of society?
Reports of a 16 stone woman who took the NHS to court to demand a gastric bypass did not exactly trigger an outpouring of sympathy from Nursing Times readers.
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.
Can't escape the housework? You're not alone
This week a nurse made the papers for getting trapped in an ironing board. And this isn’t the only danger nurses face.
Want to go large with your statins, sir?
The future of public health intervention will be more of a holding exercise than a pre-emptive strike if the view of some researchers at Imperial College London becomes the norm.
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.
What's the worst gift you've ever received from a patient?
Sure, you’re not supposed to accept gifts from patients, but sometimes that might not be such a bad thing.
Just pop your trousers on the stool and we'll take a look...
Beyond the Bedpan, along with our “seen it all before” readers, isn’t afraid to talk about embarrassing illnesses. Rashes, itching, discharge. There’s not much that will shock us.
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Ay up, pets, do you speak Tykese?
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Painting the ward blue and other dubious ways to beat the recession
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Nurses have compassion - why don't patients show themselves some?
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Why talk to a patient when you can breathalyse one?
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Robot nurses: sent to destroy?
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Reading this could be bad for your health
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Sex at work: Bad idea or good time management?
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Uniforms rear their ugly heads again
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Feeling stressed? At least you don't defuse bombs for a living...
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Nurses: you've voted, now it's time to party
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The Bournemouth Supremacy
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Are you compassionate, or too busy to care?
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Do you want a national nurses' uniform, or just a clean one?
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Which political party deserves the nursing vote?
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Nurses - stop slacking and get back to work
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Guns don't kill people, Facebook does
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Sexy nurses: Tongue in cheek or demeaning and gratuitous?
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Relationships with patients' partners - where do you draw the line?
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Are you a saint, or a sinner?
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'Immune to the sound of pain' - Why the lessons of Mid Staffs must never be forgotten
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'Give us better wages and more staff, then we'll see better results' - Nurses attack the PM's commission
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Do Lucozade and Mars bars count towards my five a day?
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Nazi nurses and Facebook fiends
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'Nurses have become too important for basic care', and other nonsense
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Is the Daily Mail bad for your health?
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Snow excuse for skiving off work
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Nurses' jobs are safe - their pay is not
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It's sex, kids, but not as you know it
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Don't let them eat cake, do let them have degrees
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Nurses need degrees, like a hole in the head
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Are student nurses too posh to wash?
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Nurses will be replaced by evil robots - you have been warned
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Mountains of the Moon, legacy of a star, and fun and games with the BNP
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A win for the whistleblowers, and how to look odd naked
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Why women want to be men, and the hospital that thinks it's a zoo
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Nursing home horrors, and why students will never be the same again
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Knicker-twanging dentist struck off, and when tweets go too far
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Lying down on the job, and how a nurse was slain by dragons
