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NHS WRES report quantifies the harassment, abuse and discrimination BME staff experience

14 Feb 2020
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A woman standing alone at a window, looking outside. People who have had close, sustained contact with a person confirmed to have coronavirus are being told to self-isolate for 14 days

Anyone asked to go into self-isolation should stay at home for 14 days, says PHE

14 Feb 2020
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specialist burns deputy matron Lucy Hall
Lucy Hall responded to appeal for international help to relieve over-stretched nurses
14 Feb 2020
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Response prompted by 2019’s critical Learning Disabilities Mortality Review
14 Feb 2020
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NMC is exploring whether to use patient experience statements, despite stakeholder warnings
13 Feb 2020
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Jessica Anderson with her record certificate

Jessica Anderson cited as ‘proof that not all heroes wear capes – some of them wear scrubs’

13 Feb 2020
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Sue Harris, the UK’s first consultant nurse in harms-free care

UK’s first consultant nurse in harms-free care champions holistic approach to patient safety

13 Feb 2020
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Worthing Hospital in West Sussex, where a healthcare worker in the emergency department is among eight confirmed cases of coronavirus in the UK

Hospital in West Sussex informs fellow staff of diagnosis

12 Feb 2020
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Picture shows a woman hunched over her knees, looking sad. A human group complains of missed NHS targets on moving patients with learning disabilities and autism to community-based settings.
Rights group highlights missed NHS targets on Transforming Care
12 Feb 2020
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Chief nurse Ruth May and Florence Nighingale Foundation chief executive Greta Westwood
Chief nurse and Florence Nightingale Foundation CEO will raise funds for future nurse leaders
11 Feb 2020
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Man in protective clothing cleaning the County Oak Medical Centre in Brighton

Two medical centres close in Brighton as government announces new quarantine powers 

11 Feb 2020
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A nurse becomes a doctor

Professor criticises ‘hare-brained’ proposals, while RCN says standards must not slip

10 Feb 2020
District nurse teams face down danger to get to patients in greatest need
10 Feb 2020

Latest ONS data on suicide risk among nursing professionals in the UK are from 2015

07 Feb 2020

Overall applications also rise, but RCN says numbers are still ’way below what is needed’

06 Feb 2020
Front-line nurses’ uptake falls far short of NHS vision for workforce immunisation
06 Feb 2020

Activists want to keep pressure on ministers over nurse numbers and a safe staffing law

06 Feb 2020

There’s still time to submit your entry – but you’ll have to be quick!

06 Feb 2020

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