NMC faces backlash after failing to review health and criminal declarations for 18,000+ registrants
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Number of applicants for nursing student courses has fallen for a fourth year running
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See our infographic demonstrating how the number of nursing degree applicants has fallen across most of the UK since the loss of the student bursary in 2017
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RCN president Cecilia Akrisie Anim calls for urgent action to address the staffing crisis.
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The awards support ‘outstanding work to improve leadership skills and health outcomes’
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The charity Papyrus wants the NMC to educate trainee nurses on how to ask patients questions about suicide
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The Offload project delivers mental health messages through rugby league to reach men from deprived areas
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A campaign to be launched by Public Health England this autumn will focus on giving people resilience and coping skills to prevent mental health issue
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A pay rise for the Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC) chair Dame Janet Finch and members has been unanimously approved.
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Hospital trusts employing high numbers of temporary staff are more likely to have their quality of care rated poor by patients, a study shows
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Nursing Standard readers have responded to the Commons health committee report on the nursing workforce.
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Plans to replace nursing student mentors wins support
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Nurses among senior members of a London trust who are calling on local MPs to take action, as mental health funding is ‘nowhere near enough to meet increasing demand’
London Assembly committee report recommends action to improve access to timely, appropriate support for LGBT and deaf people, those with disabilities and recently released prisoners
Two in three nurses responding to a survey last year felt they had too little time to provide high quality care to dying patients. Nursing Standard and Marie Curie are now holding a second survey to see if this has changed a year on
NHS staff will be given first refusal to buy thousands of affordable homes to be built on unused or surplus NHS land across England, with the money generated by the sales to be pumped back into healthcare services
NHS Improvement says resource will help leaders and staff to deliver effective and sustainable patient care.
Smoke from e-cigarettes damages DNA and can increase the risk of cancer and heart disease, scientists have warned.
Around 1,600 ten to 34-year-olds take their lives in the UK each year, according to youth suicide prevention charity Papyrus.
