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?”
Amidst the state of permanent revolution which has afflicted the NHS in the 21st century, there has been one constant: the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence.
As Andrew Lansley’s policy adviser I learned the pain of legislating to rewire the NHS — the government should avoid it, says Bill Morgan.
The government’s abandonment of its stricture against a top-down reorganisation would be breathtaking if it was not so tragic.
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