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- 7/30/2012
Nurses 'cleaning wards at cash-strapped hospitals'
Nursing staff at Mid Yorkshire Hospitals Trust have been required to clean and tidy in acute and general admission wards, despite fears it will divert from patient care. - 7/30/2012
Olympic adventure day 2: event tickets in hand
In fear of morning rush-hour tube traffic, we elected to cab it to our hotel. The traffic was surprisingly civilized, and the driver lamented that London businesses were not seeing the economic boom they were hoping for from the Olympics. - 7/30/2012
NP program reduces hospital transfers of the elderly in LTC facilities
Meet Lori Brown, the NP who coordinates the Nurse Practitioners – Supporting Teams and Averting Transfers program. - 7/30/2012
Nurse staffing, burnout linked to hospital infections
U.S. study finds burnout leads to higher healthcare-associated infection rates and costs hospitals millions of additional dollars annually. - 7/29/2012
Summer Six-Pack - July 30, 2012
- 7/29/2012
Small B.C. towns use free housing to lure locums
Housing is being used as a key tool to attract doctors as towns in the British Columbia Interior aggressively work to outbid each other. - 7/29/2012
My Olympic adventure: First, getting there
Dr. Cathy Andrew, a family physician in Toronto, is hopping the pond to watch the Olympics in London. She’ll be cheering on our Canadian athletes from the sidelines and sharing her on-the-scene observations with CanadianHealthcareNetwork.ca readers in this blog. - 7/29/2012
Final reduction in generic drug prices begins in Nova Scotia
Prices fall to 35 per cent of brand August 1st. - 7/29/2012
Which medication reconciliation practices in hospitals are the most effective?
Systematic review finds literature most supportive for pharmacist-related interventions.