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Alcohol specialist nurses key to tackling rising admissions
Alcohol nurse specialist Kerry Lyons helps run a nurse-led alcohol service in Tameside which...
04 May 2017
RCNi receives prestigious media award
Editorial team behind Nursing Standard and nine specialist journals awarded silver in the...
04 May 2017
Nurses awarded Winston Churchill Memorial Trust fellowships
Ten nurses and allied health professionals have been awarded fellowships to travel abroad...
03 May 2017
Labour pledges to halt emergency department closures and review STPs
Labour shadow health secretary Jonathan Ashworth promised a review of closures across the...
03 May 2017
Hands-on senior clinicians in A&E ‘could reduce demand’
Report says when consultants are in the emergency department to assess patients, there is...
03 May 2017
Hospital patient phones branded a 'rip off'...
Relatives who call patients in hospital are still being forced to pay 'rip off' charges of...
03 May 2017
RCN calls for politicians to end pay cap as nurses resort to hardship grants
Eight nurses a day seek urgent help to cope with the rising cost of living and one-in-four...
03 May 2017
Prime minister avoids question on nurses using food banks
Theresa May critised by nursing leaders and Labour MPs for failing to explicitly say if it...
02 May 2017
Ward introduces bedside nurse handovers to improve rapport with patients
How one hospital increased the amount of time nursing staff spend with patients.
02 May 2017
England ‘faces shortfall of 42,000 nurses by 2020’
England could be hit by a shortfall of 42,000 nurses by 2020 and almost half of all nurses...
02 May 2017
Government avoids defeat in vote on nursing bursaries
The government comfortably avoided a symbolic defeat over funding for nursing students in...
28 Apr 2017
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Last chance to vote for your Patient's Choice Award winner...
Voting in the Patient's Choice category in the RCNi Nurse Awards 2017 closes at midnight on...
27 Apr 2017
Labour promises pay rise for NHS staff
Election pledges to scrap the cap, reinstate bursary and safe staffing legislation
26 Apr 2017
Nursing jobs safe at HIV charity
A flagship HIV service has a more certain future following the support of local campaigners...
26 Apr 2017
Hospital staff paying almost £90 a month for parking, study reveals
Nurses and porters are being charged 'extortionate' fees of almost £90 a month to use...
26 Apr 2017
Praise for NICE-endorsed Establishment Genie staff planning tool
Directors of nursing have praised an advanced planning tool which has recently been endorsed...
25 Apr 2017
Patients still at risk from chronic nurse understaffing, says Unison
Chronic understaffing of nurses is continuing to put patients at risk, a survey has revealed.
24 Apr 2017