• Tees chief nurse gains academic role
  A senior nurse from the north east has been made a visiting professor at the University of Teesside.
• Shropshire hospital trust appoints director of nursing
  Robert Jones and Agnes Hunt Orthopaedic Hospital NHS Foundation Trust has appointed Jayne Downey as its director of nursing and governance.
• Specialist nurses can contribute to 'all elements' of care
  Specialist nurses can contribute to “all elements” of continuity of care for patients with long-term neurological conditions, according to York University researchers in the Journal of Advanced Nursing.
• UK hospital death rate higher for weekend admissions
  People are more likely to die if they are admitted to hospital at weekends, a large-scale review of NHS data has reiterated.
• MRSA becoming more common in the community
  Cases of MRSA in the UK are becoming more common outside of hospitals, experts have said.
• Online asthma test could help cut emergency admissions
  A new asthma test to help people work out the extent to which they risk a serious attack should also help cut down on the number of emergency hospital admissions.
• CQC issues trust with urgent warning to increase A&E staffing
  A hospital trust in the north west has been issued with an urgent warning to improve “crisis” staffing levels in accident and emergency by the Care Quality Commission.
• Birmingham trust takes nurse training online
  A Midlands hospital trust has pioneered a new online training system for nurses which it believes could free up thousands of hours of time for patient care as well as saving money on agency staff.
• Overweight women who smoke risk fetal heart defects
  Overweight women who smoke were more likely to give birth to babies with conginetal heart defects, say researchers.
• Audit reveals patchy access to heart failure specialist nurses
  Less than half of heart failure patients are currently referred to specialist nurse services after discharge, even though it reduces mortality risk, a major national audit has found.

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