Scottish Labour's leaders cannot keep blaming Westminster for the collapse at the ballot box, says VINCE MILLS
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Tory healthcare proposals threaten accountability
The NHS white paper reveals an intention to drive down standards in the NHS through professional deregulation, warns HELEN O’CONNOR
FRONT LINE: Staff nurses walk through A&E at St George’s hospital in south-west London
Over 30 years since apartheid was abolished, nasty anti-migrant rhetoric sweeps the corporate media. The Commnunist Party is ready to fight back, says ROGER McKENZIE
Over 100,000 people are expected on Brussels’s streets today. Ben Chacko speaks to Belgian Workers Party’s PETER MERTENS on wage and pensions attacks that have united the fightback
FRED BAYER says the cuts to the congress cycle could be disastrous for the Scottish trade union movement
Berlin’s Soviet war memorials are becoming the latest front in a political struggle to ‘de-Sovietise’ German history. NICO POPP reports
Western Marxism is a particular version of Marxist theory developed in – and acceptable to – the capitalist nations of Europe and North America and largely divorced from political action, argues the MARX MEMORIAL LIBRARY
THERE are nine professional regulators currently functioning in the health system covering everything from nursing and medicine right through to dentistry. The regulators keep a register of persons fit to practice their profession, determine standards of training and practice, advise on conduct and performance and run misconduct processes.
A health professional can be struck off the register if they fail to practice to the highest standards and a duty is placed upon them to put protecting the patient at the heart of everything they do.
When I was an NHS nurse I followed the Nursing and Midwifery Code for 28 years. The fear of losing your pin and being unable to work as a nurse ever again is a powerful motivator to do the right thing when delivering care to patients.
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