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The article reports that an initiative created to prevent nurses from wasting time looking for keys is saving hours. The scheme was the idea of staff nurse Jomy Jose from Royal United Hospital Bath National Health Service Trust. Each nurse has a colour-coded key to open the safe which holds the medication cupboards.

The article reports on the Royal College of Nursing's call on members of the European parliament (MEP) to change the law that would make it illegal for nurses to work more than 48 hours a week. Proposals have been made to change the European Working Time Directive. MEPs plan to discuss proposals for the definition of on-call time to be altered.

The article reports on the recommendations of the Health Visitors Association to National Health Service (NHS) Pay Review Board regarding NHS staff working hours in Great Britain. It relates that evidence from the Unite union, which negotiates on behalf of the Community Practitioners' and Health Visitors, states that NHS staff should cut their working hours to 35 hours a week and their registration fees be paid in full by employers.

A trial scheme to monitor working hours by scanning employees' hands as they start and finish shifts has divided opinion among nurses. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Palm readers and electronic swipe cards are being piloted to clock nurses in and out of work at two hospitals at Birmingham. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]