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Ashworth reiterates Labour pledge to bring back nursing bursary
Shadow health secretary Jon Ashworth has reiterated Labour’s pledge to reinstate the nursing...
09 Feb 2018
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RCNi Nurse Awards 2018 – deadline for entries extended to 23 February
RCNi Nurse Awards - entry deadline extended
08 Feb 2018
NHS England's bid to improve physical health in people with severe mental illness...
New guidance has been issued by NHS England to improve the physical health of people with...
08 Feb 2018
Social care England: report slams ‘Cinderella service’ and says DH not doing enough to...
The National Audit Office report into the adult social care workforce in England says...
08 Feb 2018
Nine month suspension for nurse who falsified end of life patient's notes...
A nurse who admitted deliberately falsifying the notes of an end of life patient who was...
07 Feb 2018
Flu vaccine: people over 65 years of age to be offered booster jab for the 2018-19...
NHS England and Public Health England outline newly licenced ‘adjuvanted trivalent’ vaccine...
07 Feb 2018
Inspection following mental health ward’s unexpected deaths found high bed numbers
Mental health ward where four people died exceeded the recommended maximum number of beds
07 Feb 2018
Data sharing 'discouraging asylum seekers from receiving healthcare' warn...
Nurses and doctors have warned that asylum seeker and refugee fears about NHS data sharing...
06 Feb 2018
Anger from nurses as NMC votes itself a raise
Council should reduce registration fees not increase its members’ allowances, say unions
06 Feb 2018
Some mental health patients face waits of up to two years for psychological therapies,...
Nine out of ten health providers keep no record of the length of time people experiencing...
06 Feb 2018
Public Health England: compelling evidence on e-cigarette prescriptions for NHS patients
Public Health England has said hospitals should sell e-cigarettes to patients and GPs could...
06 Feb 2018
QNI launches resource to inform nurses and students about care home nursing
The complexity of care home nursing has been outlined and championed in a new resource pack...
05 Feb 2018
RCN wants your views in e-nurse consultation
Nurses asked to describe how they use technology in their practice, and how ditigal skills...
05 Feb 2018
Nurses add their voice and support to protest over lack of NHS funding
Protesters took to the streets of London and other parts of the UK on Saturday 3 February to...
05 Feb 2018
Fees to use NHS by temporary migrants to double
Charges paid by temporary migrants to use the NHS are to double, a move the government says...
05 Feb 2018
Inquiry into child hyponatraemia deaths recommends service improvements
Inquiry chair says services had been ‘largely self-regulating and unmonitored’.
05 Feb 2018
RCN calls for urgent national campaign to boost student applicant numbers
Number of applicants for nursing student courses has fallen for a fourth year running
05 Feb 2018
Infographic: How nursing degree applicant figures have fallen since the loss of the...
See our infographic demonstrating how the number of nursing degree applicants has fallen...
05 Feb 2018