The mayor's hopeful Andrew Cuomo was released on bail on a scheduled visit to the senior centre in Queens on Friday as dozens of fierce protesters were expected to stand up to former Gov over the failed handling of nursing homes during the pandemic. Approximately 25 protesters marched in front of the Peter Cardera Senior Citizen Centre in Ridgewood for more than an hour as they were eagerly awaiting his administration's controversial order to send infected Covid-19 patients to nursing homes. Dr. Damien Archibald, anesthesiologist at Elmhurst Hospital, said: About 25 protesters flocked to the Peter Cardella Senior Citizen Center…
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The voice of nursing in the ongoing physician associate (PA) review is “scarce” despite the implications the role has for advanced nurse practitioners (ANPs), a conference has heard. Members of the Royal College of Nursing (RCN) this week called on the college’s governing council to investigate the impact of PAs on nursing. “It’s about protecting nurses, ensuring we are not devalued” Onyekachim Umenze The motion – at the 2025 RCN Congress, held in Liverpool this week – was passed. It comes as, in November 2024, the government ordered a review of PAs and anaesthesia associates (AAs) in England, after growing concern…
The Congressional Committee proposed delaying further implementation of nursing home staffing mandates for 10 years as part of a major budget settlement bill. The provisions of the bill, introduced Sunday night, would represent a major victory for nursing home providers. The package also stops states from enacting more provider taxes. This is a potential setback against skilled care operators and states that benefit from strengthening the federal matching funds they produce. However, providers fear the elimination or dramatic reduction of provider taxes, indicating that at least one level, the Sunday night proposal could represent a potential calm victory in a…
Join Us: Day of Action for Social Care – Tuesday 20th May 2025 at 2PM On the fourth day of our campaign, we call on everyone who values the vital role of social care to take to social media and make their voices heard. Social care is not just a lifeline for millions—it is a pillar of our society, economy, and collective well-being. This week’s announcement by the Prime Minister to freeze overseas recruitment through a new Immigration White Paper delivers yet another blow to a sector already under immense pressure. For social care, this isn’t just bad policy—it’s the…
A senior Conservative MP has called on police to open a formal perjury investigation into the testimony of a consultant whose evidence helped convict Lucy Letby. Sir David Davis last week wrote to the chief constable of Cheshire Constabulary to make a formal complaint against Dr Ravi Jayaram, a consultant paediatrician at the Countess of Chester Hospital. “I believe there is a compelling public interest in determining whether perjury may have been committed” David Davis The complaint relates to an email sent by Dr Jayaram in 2017 regarding the attempted murder of Baby K by Letby. The former neonatal nurse…
The court-appointed recipient of a financially tied Boston nursing home defended the employment of disgraced former senator Diane Wilkerson after “an allegation of nepotism and self-dealing” was filed against her last month. In the post-hearing order, Suffolk Superior Court Judge Christopher Berezos, who oversees hearings regarding recipients at the Edgar P. Benjamin Healthcare Center in Roxbury, raised “significant concerns” about the substantial salary that Wilkerson testified to build a bankruptcy facility. “On April 16, the court heard testimony from several witnesses regarding nepotism and self-dealing claims by members of the receivership team,” Berezos wrote in an order on April 22.…
aFor 25 years as a nursing home manager, Joan Robbins said it would only make it difficult.Robbins oversees the Briarwood Nursing and Rehabilitation nurse team at Little Rock, a long-term care facility for seniors. Robbins says she loves all the nurses on the roster and she is proud of how they arrive early and stay late if the situation asks for it.But finding people to meet her rank is never easy. She understands why she is better than anyone else. Simply put, nurses in elder care facilities are special people. They must be.”If you're good at it, it's a fierce…
Newly registered nurses (NRNs) are being forced to look for employment outside of the profession, including in coffee shops, due to a shortage of jobs for them, a conference has heard. Discussions around the paradoxical trend of NRNs being unable to find employment took place at the 2025 Royal College of Nursing (RCN) Congress, being held in Liverpool this week. “It’s a national funding crisis, and responsibility lies firmly with central government” Alex Knight Members overwhelmingly voted for the college’s governing council to lobby the UK Government and NHS and social care providers to develop a sustainable strategy to address…
Nurses and midwives in Scotland have voted to accept the government’s 8% two-year pay offer. Unions have been balloting their members on the offer since it was put forward by the Scottish Government in April. “This is not the end; we will continue the fight for fair pay and safe staffing” Julie Lamberth The proposed deal would see Agenda for Change staff in the country receive a 4.25% increase for 2025-26 and a rise of 3.75% for 2026-27. It also includes an “inflation guarantee”, which will ensure the increase in pay each year is a minimum of one percentage point…
An A&E nurse who is taking legal action against her employer over single-sex changing facilities has called for action following the Supreme Court ruling on the legal definition of a woman under equalities law. Sandie Peggie, a nurse at NHS Fife, has claimed she was subjected to unlawful harassment under the Equality Act 2010 by being made to share a changing room with Dr Beth Upton, a transgender woman. Now, the nurse has called on NHS Fife to “immediately stop permitting any man who identifies as a woman” access to female-only single-sex spaces. It comes as the UK Supreme Court…