Matthew Mckew
Reinstate nurse training budgets and make realistic pay offer, MPs tell the government
Commons health committee's report on the nursing workforce issues sweeping recommendations, including monitoring of tuition fee changes and action on CPD funding
Hundreds have their say in end of life care survey
Nurses and HCAs from all fields and settings urged to share their experiences of caring for people in their final days of life, in joint Nursing Standard-Marie Curie survey
MPs draw up nurse workforce plan to halt exodus from the register
Commons nursing workforce review highlights pressures stemming from training squeeze, student attrition and 'staying late'.
More nursing vacancies than ever before, report uncovers
The nursing recruitment crisis is deepening with more vacancies than ever, particularly in areas with high living costs, official figures reveal today.
RCN urges members to join ‘NHS in crisis’ rally
Organising groups for London march are calling for better funding and an end to all privatisation in the health service
Internet service boosts uptake of STI test for high-risk groups
Providing internet-based testing for sexually transmitted infections could increase the number of people being tested, including those in high-risk groups, a study shows
Community nurses embrace cost-saving agile working programme
How one tissue viability service is thriving from its prudent hot-desk switch
Mindfulness training helps ease stress among university students
Training in mindfulness can help reduce stress for university students during exam time, a study finds
Decline in learning disability nurses prompts warning
Decisive action is needed to address falls in the number of learning disability nurses if ‘catastrophic’ consequences are to be avoided, a consultant nurse has warned after figures showing declines in the discipline
Nursing students' innovative sepsis training scheme already oversubscribed
More than 100 nursing students have been trained as 'sepsis champions' to spot the signs of the potentially fatal blood poisoning.
Maria Caulfield MP: Backlash over new women’s role
Conservative MP for Lewes and cancer nurse Maria Caulfield criticised for her stand on abortion after promotion in cabinet reshuffle.
Tapeworm medicine may hold clue to new treatments for Parkinson’s
New treatments for Parkinson’s disease could be developed from a molecule found in a medicine used to treat tapeworm infections, a study suggests
Hunt stays as health secretary, with added remit of social care
Jeremy Hunt now also has responsibility for social care
Weight management programme helps remission of type 2 diabetes
A low-calorie weight management programme could help to put type 2 diabetes into remission, with significant weight loss resulting in lasting remission, researchers say
Feelings of unfairness at work tied to more sickness absences
Staff who feel unfairly treated at work are likely to be off sick more frequently and for longer, underlining the need for fair treatment of employees, researchers say.
Greater delegation needed to improve older people's care, study finds
Older people’s care can be ‘significantly’ improved across England through better coordination of services, a leading thinktank has said
Nursing Standard straw poll reveals 90% of respondents believe winter pressures are worse than 2016-17
Nurses have demanded the prime minister and health secretary join them on the front line during what many are calling the ‘worst winter crisis’ in NHS history
Former RCN council chair urges caution on industrial action over pay
Now is not the time to call a ballot over pay, the outgoing RCN council chair has told frustrated members.