NMC faces backlash after failing to review health and criminal declarations for 18,000+ registrants
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The scale of post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and other psychological problems in the emergency services has been revealed in a series of worrying figures.
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NHS staff wellbeing is suffering under the strain of increasing service pressures at the potential cost of patient care, according to a report by the Point of Care Fou
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An eye care company is offering £1 million worth of laser eye surgery to nurses and other NHS and emergency services workers.
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College to stage Scrap the Cap rally in September
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Only one in five referrals to fitness to practise proceedings concern patient care.
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Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC) chief executive Jackie Smith received a pay rise of almost £20,000 in the past year, according to the regulator’s annual report.
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Unions have cautiously welcomed an overhaul to ambulance responses targets that will see fewer 999 calls regarded as life-threatening.
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Middlesex University helps healthcare assistants to transition to nursing.
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Patients who ring the ambulance service on 999 could soon be assessed via video-call technology such as Skype if their condition is deemed not life-threatening.
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Chancellor of the Exchequer Philip Hammond has been branded ‘out of touch’ and ‘insulting’ by nursing unions amid claims he said public-sector worke
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A further trust has added its voice to calls to rethink the language tests required by the Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC) for overseas nurses to work in
Shape of Caring review author Lord Willis says employers need to find ways to attract people to the profession and retain staff.
Working long hours increases the risk of developing a dangerous irregular heartbeat, research has shown.
The government is pledging an extra £21 million for cyber security across the NHS in the wake of the WannaCry ransomware attack.
The Cavell Nurses’ Trust received nearly a third more calls from nursing staff in the first half of this year compared with last year.
House of Lords to debate the public sector pay cap, as cross-party group calls for government rethink on ‘detrimental’ policy.
The number of nursing degree applicants to universities in the UK has fallen by 19% in the past year, according to official figures.
