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  1. Florence in the Machine

    An area for anonymous health and care staff to blog about the state of the health service as they experience it on a daily basis
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  1. Patient barcode scanning in NHS hospitals: safety, snags and workarounds. A nurse’s perspective

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  2. NHS, a boiling frog in a saucepan: has suffering in care become mundane?

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    • 1,095 views

  3. I’m an A&E nurse – and in my hospital right now, we can’t give patients the dignified care they need (The Guardian, 20 January 2025)

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    • 618 views

  4. ‘Voters are unhappier with the NHS than they’ve been for 30 years. As a GP, I feel the same’ (Guardian, 24 August 2023)

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    • 1,129 views

  5. Public satisfaction with A&E at an all-time low: reflections of an A&E doctor (4 May 2023)

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    • 1,438 views

  6. I fight every day to care for my patients – but junior doctors are at breaking point (12 April 2023)

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    • 1,289 views

  7. Helping patients get their lives back: the colorectal surgeon (BMJ, 31 January 2023)

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    • 1,268 views

  8. ‘It feels terminal’: NHS staff in despair over working at breaking point (The Guardian, 4 January 2023)

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    • 992 views

  9. ‘We can’t even get basic care done’: what it’s like doing 12-hour shifts on an understaffed NHS ward (The Guardian, 5 January 2023)

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    • 1,139 views

  10. “The term 'challenging’ doesn’t cut it”: A personal reflection from an Emergency Medical Technician

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    • 2,824 views

  11. Stress, exhaustion and 1,000 patients a day: the life of an English GP (The Guardian, 27 November 2022)

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    • 993 views

  12. 'We all kill a few patients as we learn' (The Guardian, 18 May 2022)

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    • 1,272 views

  13. As an NHS doctor, I’m undervalued and overworked – so I’m moving abroad (15 July 2022)

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    • 1,182 views

  14. I’m an NHS doctor and my first word to patients is this – sorry (2 March 2022)

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    • 1,435 views

  15. ‘In my 30 years as a GP, the profession has been horribly eroded’ (22 February 2022)

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    • 1,265 views

  16. What can we do to improve safety in the theatre? Reflections from theatre nurse Kathy Nabbie

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  17. 'A broken system can only run for so long': Why 2 nurses left the profession — and what would have made them stay (30 April 2021)

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    • 1,921 views

  18. There's a patient I'll never forget. Their burns and screams still haunt me

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    • 1,483 views

  19. Four ways to decrease your dread of being on-call

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    • 1,981 views

  20. COVID-19: voices from the front line

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    • 1,310 views

  21. What is civility?

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    • 0 comments
    • 1,419 views

  22. This is the US Military Health System

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    • 1,515 views

  23. Not conveying patients: podcast by East of England Ambulance Service

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    • 1,456 views

  24. Doctors need to be supported, not trained in resilience (15 September 2015)

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    • 1,950 views

  25. Perspectives on dying from COVID-19: The rising tide (part two)

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    • 1,744 views
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