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GOVERNMENT Health Minister and qualified medical doctor Dan Poulter praised a ?fantastic? nurse-led unit at Poole Hospital during a flying visit.
The Medical Investigation Unit, which provides diagnostic and treatment services, is one of only a handful of such units in the UK to be led by specially-trained nurses instead of doctors.
Last year, it became one of the first in England where nurses can prescribe blood and blood products on a non-emergency basis. Its matron, Geoffrey Walker, was recently named national nurse of the year by the British Journal of Nursing.
http://www.bournemouthecho.co.uk/ne..._Minister___s_praise_for_Poole_Hospital_unit/
The Medical Investigation Unit, which provides diagnostic and treatment services, is one of only a handful of such units in the UK to be led by specially-trained nurses instead of doctors.
Last year, it became one of the first in England where nurses can prescribe blood and blood products on a non-emergency basis. Its matron, Geoffrey Walker, was recently named national nurse of the year by the British Journal of Nursing.
http://www.bournemouthecho.co.uk/ne..._Minister___s_praise_for_Poole_Hospital_unit/