New core standards for Assistant Practitioners are published today by Skills for Health, the Sector Skills Council for healthcare.
The standards were developed in response to requests from employers and commissioners concerned at variation in the responsibilities, education and training of staff employed in the role.

Almost a million more people registered to become organ donors in the last year and hundreds more lives were saved in the UK through organ transplants according to a new report, launched by Health Secretary Andy Burnham today.

Responding to today’s publication of the NHS Information Centre’s NHS vacancy statistics, Dr Peter Carter, Chief Executive of the Royal College of Nursing (RCN), said:
“Today’s figures are worrying as they show that long-term nursing vacancies are rising for the first time in five years. While we are concerned about long-term vacancies, even unfilled short-term vacancies [...]

KMR GROUP, a firm analyzing biopharmaceutical R&D performance since the early 1990s, announces SiteView, its newest module in the Enrollment Metrix Application. Enrollment Metrix helps companies plan more effectively and reliably when setting recruitment targets and timelines, therefore helping companies save millions of dollars due to delay and non-conformance.

With a growing number of children being recruited by the LTTE and scores of children being killed or injured in fighting, UNICEF today expressed its gravest concerns for children, as Sri Lanka’s conflict enters a new phase.