As always, a very useful and informative thread Doc Alan

Other than raising the academic level of our future nurses for the sake of it, or to reduce competition, I don’t understand the reason behind the requirement for a degree ,unless of course the Health Authorities want to increase the salary being paid, which I very much doubt. Is the role changing Doc Alan?

Many of our nurses have already moved into the private sector and I was very pleased to meet the new nurse who started at my brother’s nursing home this week. A petite and very pretty young Filipina who has the most enormous smile, bless her who was delighted to hear that my brother can speak Tagalog

For anyone interested, the current BBC1 programme on TV on Sunday nights at 8pm named Call the Midwife is actually based on midwifery in the 1950s. Through it’s characters, the programme demonstrates the social and medical problems experienced some 60 years ago which have helped to develop the service into what it is today.