University Trains All Nurses in Anti-Overdose Kits

Anti-overdose kit

University Trains All Nurses in Anti-Overdose Kits: All nurses at the University of Bradford will now receive training on how to use naloxone; a lifesaving medication which can reverse overdoses caused by opiates. The training, which will be given to around 400 nurses every year, is being delivered in partnership with New Vision Bradford, which […]

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Ambulance service faces an ‘utterly unprecedented crisis’ this winter

Ambulance

Unless rapid and serious action is taken this winter the problems may become insurmountable, ambulance workers tell Secretary of State.  The ambulance service faces an ‘utterly unprecedented crisis’ this winter, GMB Union paramedics have told the Government. In letters to Secretary of State, Sajid Javid and Jeremy Hunt MP, Chair of the Health Select Committee, the union raises ‘serious concerns regarding the untenable workplace pressures that our members are facing […]

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