Will scrapping nurse bursaries help or worsen NHS staffing crisis?
Plans to axe bursaries and replace them with loans have been condemned by unions, but universities say they will lead to more training places for nurses, midwives and allied health professionals
'Everyone likes to be thanked': How patient feedback is improving NHS care
Listening to patients is vital to improve performance. Two hospital trusts whose feedback systems helped turn their services around reveal how they did it
Jeremy Hunt has torn up social contract between junior doctors and the state
Clive Peedell
Doctors give a lifetime of work to the NHS in return for job security and fair terms and conditions – but the proposed new contract breaks bond of trust
My OT and I: how occupational therapists achieve the impossible
Farmer Robin Foord scaled the Brecon Beacons after a combine harvester destroyed his leg; jockey Brian Toomey was given a 3% chance of survival but has made a racing comeback. The common factor? An OT
What really happens the day junior doctors start work in the NHS
Terror, pride, hierarchy and failing IT are some of the things that characterise doctors’ first days. We asked healthcare professionals to tell us their stories
