By Michael Esdaile
April 8, 2025
Pamela Marley, a theatre nursing pioneer who helped found the country’s first professional perioperative nursing group, has died.
Read more... Theatre nurse pioneer and founder of The Dissector dies
By Mary Longmore
November 13, 2024
Nurses say more staff are needed if they are to meet the Government’s health targets.
Read more... More staff needed to meet health targets, say emergency and primary health nurses
By Mary Longmore
April 9, 2024
Emergency nurses fear tough new targets for emergency departments (EDs) will put already-stretched staff under more pressure, risking “gaming” of wait time data.
Read more... Tough new government health targets could backfire, warn nurses
By Matthew Lawrence
August 31, 2023
Read more... Anaesthetic technicians no threat to perioperative nurses, says their society
By Mary Longmore
August 2, 2023
Nurses fear a proposal to turn anaesthetic technicians (ATs) into ‘perioperative practitioners’ could spell the end of nurses in operating theatres.
Read more... Proposed perioperative practitioner role could push nurses out of theatres — college