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A way of measuring quality of life following cancer treatment to be trialled in a bid to improve care

21 Sep 2017
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Failing to remove the cap on health sector pay increases would increase problems with ‘recruitment, retention and motivation’ a new report claims.

21 Sep 2017
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A shortage of specialist neonatal nurses is being linked by the RCN to the varying regional outcomes for babies found in a new audit.

21 Sep 2017
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College students should be assigned mentors, offered relaxation and mindfulness classes, and put into 'houses' to help them settle into univers

21 Sep 2017
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Defibrillator awareness campaign

Two nurses aim to raise awareness of sudden cardiac death.

20 Sep 2017
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New pathway to help healthcare assistants train to become registered nurses
20 Sep 2017
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Paramedics

One in eight staff at England’s ten ambulance trusts have taken time off due to stress or anxiety in the past year, figures from the GMB show

20 Sep 2017
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Amina Ahmed

A photographic project giving a window into people’s home lives features children’s nurse Amina Ahmed

20 Sep 2017
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Study revealed some trusts call unqualified support staff 'nurses'.
20 Sep 2017
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Three nurses ordered to pay more than £4,000 by Dundee Sheriff Court
19 Sep 2017
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Norman Lamb

Norman Lamb calls for wage hike at Lib Dem party conference.

19 Sep 2017
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The RCN has backed a charity’s call to form taskforces to combat a life-limiting lung disease

19 Sep 2017

Mother and daughter collect their degrees at University of Wolverhampton.

19 Sep 2017

A national development programme aimed at newly qualified nurses, midwives and allied health professionals across Scotland is being relaunched.

19 Sep 2017

Systemic Anti-Cancer Therapy (SACT) passport scheme will mean all cancer nurses in London are trained to same level of competency and can move trusts more easily

18 Sep 2017

The power of social media has been recognised during a week of presentations at a London trust.

18 Sep 2017

The qualitiy of university teaching and graduate outcomes are to be examined as part of an education committee inquiry. 

18 Sep 2017

Almost 1,400 overseas nurses who applied to work in the UK in the past two years have failed their English language tests, Nursing Standard can reveal.

18 Sep 2017

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