Health Service Journal
Dave West
Dave West is the Nursing Times and HSJ senior correspondent. For Nursing Times Dave covers children's nursing, midwifery, practice nursing and nurse prescribing. Over at HSJ, Dave focuses on quality and GP commissioning and consortia.
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Government backtracks to hand maternity to GPs
8-Nov-2010
The government is preparing to perform a U-turn on its decision to plan and fund maternity nationally and instead hand responsibility to GPs, HSJ’s sister title Nursing Times has learned. -
Crucifix row trust acted reasonably, tribunal finds
7-Apr-2010
A Christian nurse who refused to remove a crucifix at work has lost her discrimination claim against Royal Devon and Exeter Foundation Trust. -
Hospital staff at risk of 'compassion fatigue'
9-Mar-2010
Being asked to treat patients in unsuitable conditions could make nurses desensitised to poor care, the Royal College of Nursing has warned. -
Trust defends its use of extra beds
9-Mar-2010
Royal Bournemouth Hospital and Christchurch Hospitals Foundation Trust has justified its policy of putting patients in wards which are already full, after Nursing Times received a complaint that the practice was unsafe. -
'Full' hospitals are treating patients in non-clinical areas
9-Mar-2010
Patients are routinely being treated in areas of hospitals not designed for care, a survey by HSJ’s sister title Nursing Times has revealed. -
NMC calls on government to help whistleblowers
8-Oct-2009
Nurses and midwives are not reporting poor care because of bad whistleblowing procedures, the chair of the Nursing and Midwifery Council has said.
