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'Take a break', trust tells staff
Campaign encourages staff to take frequent breaks and improve their health and well-being.
20 Mar 2017
Exclusive: Nurses have say on NHS
More than half of nurses (52%) are considering quitting the NHS as work pressures continue...
19 Mar 2017
Leading stroke nursing professor receives honour at Buckingham Palace
UK's only nursing professor of stroke care made a dame.
17 Mar 2017
Low morale and poor pay behind staff retention problems, survey suggests
In a poll of 2,000 NHS workers 92% thought low morale caused problems with staff retention.
17 Mar 2017
Female nurses at higher risk of suicide compared to some other occupations
Nurses have an higher risk of suicide according to an analysis by the Office for National...
17 Mar 2017
Health secretary calls on senior nurses for help in four areas
Nurses can help make improvements in four key areas, the health secretary told the chief...
16 Mar 2017
Pioneering course sees graduates combine research and front-line nursing
A new academic course is hoping to increase nurse-led research, improve front-line practice...
16 Mar 2017
'I don't think nurse pay is enough,' says Jeremy Hunt...
Health secretary Jeremy Hunt says he 'dearly' wants to increase nurse pay – but is...
15 Mar 2017
The flying nurses bringing eye health care to developing countries
Scaling the heights of healthcare with blindness prevention charity Orbis’s Flying Eye...
15 Mar 2017
Support your EU colleagues, urges chief nurse
Nurses from the EU face an 'uncertain future' and need our support, Jane Cummings said, as...
14 Mar 2017
District nursing shortage leaving patients in pain, report warns
A district nurse shortage is leaving patients in pain and putting pressure on staff across...
14 Mar 2017
Funds for STPs in spring budget
Additional funds for sustainability and transformation plans (STPs) announced in the spring...
13 Mar 2017
Non-EU worker fee risks adding to staffing crisis, warns RCN
College says the government must exempt healthcare workers from new immigration charge.
13 Mar 2017
Barry Quinn: 'I will work to ensure that the journal continues to be a vehicle for...
Assistant director of nursing at Chelsea and Westminster NHS Foundation Trust, London, Barry...
13 Mar 2017
'Patients should have access to GP waiting times for routine conditions'...
NHS England chief executive Simon Stevens said patients will be able to look up GP waiting...
13 Mar 2017
New school of nursing and midwifery in Oxford
Collaboration between local organisations will see students learning in university and trust...
13 Mar 2017
RCN 'worried' by trust's plan to change vacant nurse posts to nursing...
The move by East and North Hertfordshire NHS Trust has attracted criticism.
13 Mar 2017
Suspended sentence for nurse-turned trust chief executive
A former NHS chief executive with a background in nursing has been given a suspended prison...
10 Mar 2017