Analysis

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Workforce shortages, NHS pressures and nursing pay were high on the agenda for politicians gathering at their party conferences this autumn.

12 Oct 2017
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Staffing levels are having a huge impact on quality of care, nurses often feel they are not able to perform to the best of their ability.

10 Oct 2017
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Opinions are divided on whether the healthcare system can cope with demand over the coming months.

14 Sep 2017
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There is much to like in Scotland’s Nursing 2030 Vision, but the success will be in the implementation.

11 Aug 2017
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Retaining staff remains a major problem for the NHS.

11 Aug 2017
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A departing nurse director has spoken of the ‘anxiety of individuality’ sometimes felt in senior roles such as hers

16 Jun 2017
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During the general election on 8 June, polls suggested the NHS was the number one priority on voters' minds, but the result has spread uncertainty and sceptic

16 Jun 2017
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Using freedom of information requests, the RCN has found that despite the Conservative party's statements of increased nursing numbers, all is not as it seems for the nursing pr

16 May 2017
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Professor Dame Jessica Corner talks to Nursing Standard
26 Apr 2017
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Black and Asian nurses and midwives are being disproportionately referred to the Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC) by their employers, according to a new report.

13 Apr 2017
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At the end of 2015, deputy directors of nursing were being interviewed for one of 15 sought-after places on a new kind of leadership course.

05 Apr 2017
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Almost 60% of nurses feel stressed all or most of the time, according to an exclusive Nursing Standard survey with the Sunday Mirror and the Sunday People.

19 Mar 2017

Nurses in England have been actively involved in developing a series of standards healthcare apprentices must meet

02 Mar 2017

With health services continuing to feel the strain, collaboration will give nurses, doctors and other care staff ‘the best chance of success’, according to England’s chief nursing officer Jane Cummings

10 Feb 2017

More than 65,850 NHS staff began the retirement process in 2015-16, adding to pressures on the health service.

17 Jan 2017

Healthcare staff will need more training to take advantage of developments in IT

09 Nov 2016
Plans to speed up the lengthy process for fitness to practise (FtP) hearings and reduce the number of cases that go to a full hearing are currently being discussed by the Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC).
03 Nov 2016
The annual drive urging nurses and other healthcare staff to have their free flu vaccination is underway, following a fall in numbers last year.
26 Oct 2016

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