Disposable gloves and aprons are used to protect health professionals and patients from the risks of infection. However, it is important to use them appropriately or they may increase patients’ risk ...

A doctor on the frontline of Britain's coronavirus outbreak has revealed how staff must wear wafer-thin paper masks, plastic aprons and gloves instead of full protective gear. They had high-tech masks ...

A BUNGLING nurse had to be reminded to wear protective clothing when treating a woman with MRSA, but then put the apron on the patient instead of herself. Anitha Jose, 44, shocked supervisors at ...

The plan-act-study-do QI methodology was used to identify potential hazardous drug exposures and implement procedures to minimize those risks.

Black, Asian and minority ethnic (BAME) nurses in the UK are more likely to have problems accessing vital personal protective equipment (PPE), a new survey shows. Twice as many BAME members of nursing ...

A nurse was photographed by a patient with just a basic apron to protect herself from the deadly coronavirus bug. The shocking image comes to light after a hospital consultant became the first ...

The unnamed nurse wants better protection on the front line (Picture: PA/Getty) A worried nurse in Northern Ireland says she is treating coronavirus patients with a ‘knot in her stomach’ – because she ...

Exhausted NHS staff at a Scottish hospital have urged the public to stick with coronavirus measures as they struggle with the pandemic's winter spike. The PA news agency was given access to the Royal ...