Leading safe staffing expert 'troubled' by lack of workforce investment...
Speaking at the Chief Nursing Officer summit, nurse researcher Linda Aiken criticised lack...
13 Mar 2018
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Wales leads the way in safe staffing bill implementation, conference told
Wales is making good progress towards fully implementing safe staffing legislation, a...
12 Mar 2018
Nurses providing chemotherapy face health risks, academics warn
Website launched to highlight the risks healthcare professionals face when providing...
09 Mar 2018
Nurses rumoured to be offered 6.5% pay rise
But staff must give up a day's holiday, reports say
09 Mar 2018
Exclusive: Nurses working alone are victims of hundreds of assaults, investigation shows
Hundreds of nurses who work alone in the community have been victims of violence, with...
09 Mar 2018
One-stop prostate cancer tests cut diagnosis times and prevent unnecessary biopsies
Three London hospitals are offering men mpMRI scans to detect prostate cancer in one-day...
08 Mar 2018
Nurses should know their shifts a year in advance, Hunt tells directors of nursing
Technology should be used to enable nurses to know their shift pattern a year in advance,...
08 Mar 2018
NHS bed stocks reaching 'unsustainably' low levels as norovirus infections...
Almost 75,000 NHS beds in England have been closed due to norovirus over the course of the...
08 Mar 2018
Universities must make use of government funding to boost nursing numbers, says CNO for...
England's chief nursing officer has called on universities to expand the number of nursing...
08 Mar 2018
Informal learning one alternative amid CPD shortfall, chief nurse tells summit
Chief nursing officer acknowledges nurses’ frustration over funding cuts, but says...
08 Mar 2018
England’s chief nurse says NHS ‘trumps every healthcare system in the world’
Jane Cummings used her summit speech to promote a new nursing recruitment campaign
07 Mar 2018
Nursing leader Hilary Chapman collects damehood during ceremony at Buckingham Palace
Nursing leader Hilary Chapman from Barnsley has been made a Dame, Commander of the Order of...
07 Mar 2018
NHS staff survey reveals rise in workplace pressures as well as levels of job and pay...
More than one third of NHS staff in England have experienced work-related stress in the past...
06 Mar 2018
Bank nurses feel ‘cheated’ after missing out on holiday pay
London-based nurses say their right to statutory holiday pay was not made clear by NHS...
06 Mar 2018
Philip Graf to succeed Dame Janet Finch as chair of NMC
Philip Graf, a law graduate who has held key roles in the media and government regulation,...
02 Mar 2018
Nurse satisfaction of sufficient staffing rises by 1%, survey finds
Only 1% more health and social care staff in Scotland feel there is sufficient staffing at...
02 Mar 2018
Nurses are going the extra mile despite the snow
Nurses are going above and beyond to get to work during the snow storm
02 Mar 2018
Sustainability and transformation partnerships lose many nurses in maze of '...
RCN gives evidence to the Health and Social Care Committee stating that one quarter of...
01 Mar 2018