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Procurement
Nursing Standard

Nurse joins team tasked with improving NHS procurement

District nurse and paramedic add their expertise to nurse-led NHS clinical evaluation team, which is due to publish findings of its first review of essential products

Lonely Christmas
Nursing Standard

Lonely older people most miss sitting with someone and laughs, survey shows

The Campaign to End Loneliness is calling for a UK-wide strategy for tackling loneliness and social isolation.

Asthma
Nursing Standard

NICE recommends new drug to help patients with severe asthma

Mepolizumab could assist people who have few treatment options available.

Detention
Learning Disability Practice

Mental Health Act detentions soared over past decade, figures show

NHS Digital data reveals a 47% increase in detentions under the Mental Health Act

Breaking news
RCNi

New online resource for nursing students on professional behaviour and the Nursing and Midwifery Council’s code

Online resource teaches nursing students about the professional standards expected of them

Bev Tabernacle
Nursing Standard

Trust creates ‘one-stop shop’ to interview and recruit nurses on the same day

An NHS Trust offers nurses jobs immediately after successful interviews, in a bid to boost staff numbers.

Anne Marie Rafferty
Nursing Standard

Nursing degree apprenticeships criticised by leading academic

New degree apprenticeships hark back to exploitation of students, says nurse professor.

This is the competency test centre at the Uni of Nottingham
Nursing Standard

NMC opens new test centre for nurses trained overseas

A new test centre for non-EU and EEA trained nurses will be based at Oxford Brookes...

Discussing fertility with teenagers
Nursing Standard

Teenagers with cancer need access to fertility preservation services, urges nurse expert

Valerie Peddie has emphasised the lack of fertility knowledge among young people with cancer

palliative care
Nursing Standard

Children's hospices and palliative care charities struggling amid 'funding crisis'

A report from Together for Short Lives and Hospice UK reveals huge reductions in local...

nurse associate
Nursing Standard

Responsibilities of nursing associates revealed by Health Education England

Nursing associates will only be able to administer medicines if suitably trained and competent, in settings where it is deemed appropriate, and will be guided by employer medicines management policies, according to Health Education England (HEE).

Dame Julie Moore
Nursing Standard

Trust chief executive reveals racism towards staff following Brexit result

Dame Julie Moore described the situation at her NHS trust post-Brexit to a House of Lords...

Cuts to services detrimental to mothers who want to breastfeed
Nursing Standard

Cuts to services detrimental to mothers who want to breastfeed, warn experts

World Breastfeeding Trends Initiative UK report exposes gaps in public health support...

Charity calls for domestic abuse support in every hospital.
Nursing Standard

Charity calls for domestic abuse support in every hospital in England and Wales

Over half of domestic abuse victims visiting hospital had accessed emergency departments a...

Nurses
Nursing Standard

Substituting nurses with nursing assistants linked to higher patient death risk, study warns

Reasearch shows one professional nurse substitution associated with a 21% rise in patient...

Bright 2016
Nursing Standard

Website helps mental health nurses support people with learning disabilities on acute wards

Charity encourages mental health nurses working on acute wards to organise themselves using...

Julie Moore
Nursing Standard

Nurse chief executive to give evidence about NHS to Lords select committee

Dame Julie Moore and Katherine Murphy to give evidence to committee on long-term...

Alcohol care team
Nursing Standard

Nurse-led project tackles alcohol taboo

Initiative from Guy’s and St Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust’s alcohol care team aims to help patients recognise and change excessive drinking habits

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