Health visitors in south Wales set to strike after NHS employer ignores job evaluation appeal
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The Scottish Government is considering recommendations for a major revamp of neonatal services – including creating three specialist neonatal intensive care units in the next fi
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There is a unique opportunity to improve the care provided to children with life-limiting illnesses in 2017, according to experts.
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With one in three 10 to 11 year-olds either obese or overweight and England’s recent childhood obesity plan widely attacked as insufficient Tamsin Newton Snow finds out how nurses
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Eleven years ago, Linda Partridge joined the WellChild charity, with a mission to alter the care of children with complex health needs.
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An independent inquiry into child sexual abuse is looking to nurses for support in bringing forward survivors.
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More needs to be done to drive up basic standards in neonatal units, according to the latest audit of services
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A new guideline on end of life care for children and young people is due out later this year
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Female genital mutilation (FGM) is a hidden crime and a ‘national scandal’, MPs warned earlier this month.
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Changes to the make-up of nursing education warrant more debate
Specialist neonatal transport services are essential parts of care provision for sick and premature babies.
NHS staff working in primary care have been advised to take a more precautionary approach to the Zika virus, particularly with pregna
At the beginning of this month, the first nurses to use the new revalidation system will have completed their applications to maintain their registration. By April 2019, every nurse and midwife in the UK will have gone through the process.
Transforming care has become a buzz phrase in the health service. Since NHS England’s Five-Year Forward View was published in autumn 2014 a great deal of interest has been expressed in changing services to improve care and save money
Emotional and practical support is crucial for the families of children with eczema. This was the main feedback from a workshop organised by the charity Eczema Outreach Scotland for first-year nursing students at the University of Edinburgh
Asthma is now so common that in every classroom there will be, on average, at least two children who have the condition. But such familiarity seems to have bred complacency.
The number of children and young people who carry out a caring role in the home is unknown, but data from the 2011 census reveals that almost 250,000 people aged between five and 19 were caring for parents, siblings and others in England and Wales
Lead nurse Zoe Tribble believes she manages a unique service.
