Specialist nurses: savings I make prove we shouldn't be used to fill staffing gaps
Epilepsy specialist nurse's support line has saved her trust £85,000
28 Jun 2018
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Hospital safe staffing: no ‘one size fits all’, says regulator
NHS Improvement guidelines urges trusts to take on feedback from children, young people and...
27 Jun 2018
Gosport scandal: Dr Jane Barton claims she was ‘doing her best’ for patients
Report finds hundreds of people's lives were shortened by administration of opioids
27 Jun 2018
Heatwave warning – nurses urged to keep themselves and their patients hydrated
Temperatures in England could exceed 30ºC over the next few days as Met Office raises heat-...
26 Jun 2018
How Good is the NHS? report reveals mixed picture in performance quality
According to new UK analysis by four leading think tanks, the NHS has 'markedly fewer'...
26 Jun 2018
EU nurses must have right to stay if there is no Brexit deal, RCN says
EU nurses’ right to stay in the UK must be guaranteed even if there is no Brexit deal, the...
26 Jun 2018
Make child health promotion in the community a global priority – ICN president
Community-based child health promotion is a sound investment
25 Jun 2018
Child obesity plan won't work without more public health funding – RCN...
College wants school nurse and health visitor posts to be returned to the NHS
25 Jun 2018
NHS pay in Scotland: 'the biggest rise in a decade'...
Nurses on AfC offered 9% pay increase – with reform of terms and conditions
25 Jun 2018
‘Blame culture must change to learning culture’ to prevent repeat of Gosport scandal
Health and social care secretary Jeremy Hunt says it is too hard for staff to raise concerns
22 Jun 2018
Gosport evidence: ‘It appeared to me euthanasia was practised by the nursing staff’
Auxiliary at Gosport War Memorial Hospital told police about events on the 'dead loss ward'
22 Jun 2018
Gosport scandal: ‘my mum had to leave her job after speaking up about opioids’
Sylvia Giffin was among the Gosport War Memorial Hospital nurses who tried to act on concerns
22 Jun 2018
Gosport hospital deaths review found nurses’ warnings on opioids went unheeded
Review into hundreds of untimely deaths said night duty nurses were stifled when they spoke...
20 Jun 2018
Expert panel to advise government on cannabis for medical use
Home secretary says government plans to reschedule banned drug if review identifies ‘...
20 Jun 2018
Nurses need compulsory learning disability training, says mother of tragic teenager
Nurses need mandatory learning disability training, says a woman whose teenage son died in...
20 Jun 2018
FtP is about patient safety, not private behaviour, RCN tells regulator
Some outcomes suggest ‘moral policing’, with nurses being held to a different standard,...
19 Jun 2018
Government's NHS funding boost is 'no long-term solution' without social...
RCN and social care leaders call for extra investment to shore up home care services
18 Jun 2018
Perinatal mortality down, but better reporting would support care improvements
Better-quality data on baby deaths would help target services where they're needed most
18 Jun 2018