Dr Anita Sharma explains how delegating responsibility to her community matron has freed up practice time and improved the care of her patients The community matron scheme was a part of five-year ...

LIVERPOOL’S Children’s Community Matron Service, which covers North, South and Central Liverpool, are celebrating this week after findings from a recent patient satisfaction survey revealed excellent ...

We asked:- “Is the advent of the community matron an indication of the diminishing role of the social care worker as the boundaries between the two professions blur? These are the comments we received ...

The childrenâ s national service framework advocates childrenâ s services being designed and delivered around the needs of the child. This article details parental perception of and satisfaction with ...

Health secretary John Reid was making headlines for all the wrong reasons last week. But while hundreds of column inches were given over to his comments on working class mothers' pleasure from smoking ...

A nurse in Hartlepool who helped put in place a new way of caring for patients in care homes has retired after more than four decades in the NHS, it has been announced. Anne Bagley, who qualified to ...

A new network of matrons would "put the patient at the heart of everything", the head of nursing at Noble's Hospital has said. On 1 May, eight senior matrons took up their roles in a bid to refocus ...