Three trusts want to move bank nurses to an agency, slashing employer pension contributions
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Three trusts want to move bank nurses to an agency, slashing employer pension contributions
Are employers doing enough to protect staff who handle chemotherapy medicines?
RCN also suggests a student loan forgiveness scheme and other strategies to retain new nurses
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RCN also suggests a student loan forgiveness scheme and other strategies to retain new nurses
Questions asked as report shows regulator failing to meet standards
Trust has dismissed 11 staff members for inappropriately accessing medical records
NMC faces backlash after failing to review health and criminal declarations for 18,000+ registrants
Call for healthcare staff exemptions after long-term permits were deemed invalid
Analysis
Are employers doing enough to protect staff who handle chemotherapy medicines?
Community nurses are fighting for their high-level practice to be rebanded at band 7
The BMA says staff are being used inappropriately – is the claim justified or divisive?
Our Q&A looks at what negotiations on Agenda for Change shake-up could mean for nurse pay
Our investigation shows the huge variation in parking fees across England and the UK
Two NHS chief nurses reveal how working with staff helped transform care and morale
Clinical update
Updated NICE guidance focuses on diagnosis, red flag symptoms and when to seek emergency care
Guidance focuses on individualised care for pressure ulcers, lower limbs and surgical wounds
Resuscitation UK advice affirms role of advance care planning
New guidelines focus on physical, psychological and pharmacological interventions
Revised guidance details roles and competencies required of healthcare staff
Updated guidance covers children with a tracheostomy or respiratory difficulties
Policy briefing
Advice on how school nursing services in England can operate during imposed restrictions
The implications for nurses of RCN guidance on care provision and inadequate PPE
Concerns about standards of care with long-term ventilation reviewed by NCEPOD
Public Health England focuses on promoting critical importance of mental health
How will the new safeguarding partners differ from local safeguarding children’s boards?
The Royal Society for the Prevention of Accidents calls for preventive action across the ages
Journal scan
Childhood measles can affect post-bronchodilator airflow obstruction in later life
Study shows that children respond to videos on smartphone screens but do not benefit educationally
Study finds women parenting children with cancer have lower incomes than those with children who do not
Researchers at the University of Edinburgh who tested the Heligmosomoides polygyrus Alarmin Release Inhibitor (HpARI) on mice hope findings will lead to using the protein as the...
Findings follows 36 studies of randomised and non-randomised controlled trials of children and adults who have a rare form of epilepsy
