NMC faces backlash after failing to review health and criminal declarations for 18,000+ registrants
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Professional Standards Authority takes case to High Court after NMC rules nurse acted in self-defence when he punched a vulnerable patient.
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NHS England saves four cardiac surgery services provided they meet new care standards.
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RCN Scotland director Theresa Fyffe will join thousands of fundraisers this weekend for a charity sleep-out in Edinburgh in support of homeless people
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Health visitors in England fear falling numbers could be putting children’s lives at risk, a new survey reveals.
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A new strategy to improve staffing in NHS cancer services unveiled by Health Education England will create a competency and skills framework for the role
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Persuading more nurses and other NHS staff to have the flu vaccination could dramatically reduce overall sickness absence rates, a study shows
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Action is needed to address obesity among healthcare staff, with one in four nurses in England dangerously overweight, researchers say
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New scheme will fund senior leads for mental health in English schools and colleges
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Care home nurse touched colleague while caring for a resident
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Theatre nurses could begin 2018 on strike over claims that newly-enforced shift rotas put patient safety at risk.
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The number of mature students accepted onto nursing degree courses has heavily declined with the removal of the bursary, official figures published
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Nominations are now open for one of nursing’s most prestigious accolades, in which patients put forward the name of a nurse who has made a difference to the c
More funding for nurses' continuing professional development will be found, according to the chief of England's national workforce body
A group of community nurses in Scotland are to receive the title of Queen's Nurse at a ceremony in Edinburgh this evening
Nursing remains the most trusted profession in Britain for a second consecutive year, the annual Ipsos MORI survey has revealed
RCN general secretary Janet Davies says shortage of specialist nurses is ‘very, very worrying’.
Draft guidance on the reducing the need for restraint and restrictive intervention for children and young people, has been put out for consultation by the Department of Health
Government suggestions that any pay rise for nurses must be linked to improved productivity are insulting, says RCN general secretary Janet Davies.
