Health visitors in south Wales set to strike after NHS employer ignores job evaluation appeal
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Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC) agrees to be regulator for new nursing associates.
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Three quarters of neonatal units in Scotland do not have enough nurses to meet minimum safe staffing levels, according to a charity for premature babies.
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Children and young people need to be taught to wash their hands properly in a bid to cut down the risk of infection, according to new guidance from the National Institute f
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The Nursing and Midwifery Council has set out the benefits and risks of regulating nursing associates.
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Hospitals are running wards with a dangerously low number of nurses and are using healthcare assistants as 'stand-ins', an investigation suggests.
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Researchers at NHS Education for Scotland have found the Hospital Passport scheme helps children in hospital.
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Trades Union Congress analysis of public sector pay restraint reveals bleak picture for nurses.
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Some nurses working up to 12 hours without a break, food, or even a glass of water
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A nurse academic with a family experience of suicide has called for all nurses to undergo awareness training.
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A parliamentary debate on scrapping NHS pay caps will take place at the end of this month and nurses are being urged to do all they can to encourage their MPs to attend
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RCN warns winter pressures are posing ‘major risks’ across the whole NHS system, but hospitals say temporary measures did not risk patient safety
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Petition tops 100k signatures after nurses lose 14% in real terms
The charity Wellchild has appointed its first parent trainer nurse to help children continue to receive the essential medical care they need after leaving hospital.
A toddler with suspected meningitis lay for several hours on a makeshift bed made of two chairs while waiting to be seen by a doctor in A&E, his mother claims.
Cathy Warwick will retire as head of the Royal College of Midwives in August.
Fundamental changes to the NMC’s legal framework could speed up fitness to practise cases.
The Unite union opposed plans to cut posts
First-time mothers are receiving boxes full of essential items for their babies, which can even serve as their first bed once empty.
