To mark last week’s chief nursing officer’s conference, Today programme attack dog John Humphrys was set on chief nursing officer Christine Beasley and Unison head of nursing Gail Adams to thrash out whether nurses really need degrees.
This was followed by sport, in which there was a discussion on whether racehorses can be considered intelligent (it was a slow day), but Humphrys wasn’t finished yet. “My editor’s just asked me,” he interjected, “should they be educated to degree level too?”
New health secretary Matt Hancock, who took over the role from Jeremy Hunt this week, sets out his stall to the NHS in an exclusive editorial for HSJ.
Andy Cowper on what he calls the unutterably depressing saga of the Home Office blocking the visa applications of 100 doctors who have been recruited to come and work in the NHS
A survey into how restorative dentistry is paid for has found wide disparity in the funding of the service in the UK, which leads to variations in the service provided, note Ulpee Darbar and Ishpinder Kaur Toor
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