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Written complaints about nurses

Nurses received second-highest number of complaints among NHS staff last year.

15 Sep 2017
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Drink

A campaign to encourage patients to eat and drink until much closer to their operations is continuing to prove a great success.

15 Sep 2017
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nurse refers to tablet computer

RCN draws on members' feedback to inform NMC consultation on education standards.

15 Sep 2017
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pay
In a break with tradition, unions have submitted a pay claim directly to the government
15 Sep 2017
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Jane Cummings

High-achieving graduates will begin path to nursing leadership.

14 Sep 2017
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sills

A new generation of Nightingale Nurses will be created at Guy’s and St Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust.

14 Sep 2017
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Sir Bruce Keogh

Nurses should become ‘agents for change’ in the NHS, according to the outgoing medical director for NHS England Sir Bruce Keogh.

14 Sep 2017
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Sarah Wollaston

The Commons health committee has launched an inquiry into pressures facing the nursing workforce.

14 Sep 2017
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Kate Granger wards

Staff from 25 trusts that responded to the terror attacks in Manchester and London and the Grenfell Tower fire received special recognition awards at the Kate Granger

14 Sep 2017
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MPs back call for end to the public sector pay cap for NHS
14 Sep 2017
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Mother and baby

Four new mother and baby units will open in England to support women with the most serious mental health conditions.

13 Sep 2017
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Thousands of nurses, care home staff and pharmacists are to be urged to look out for symptoms of sepsis, Jeremy Hunt has announced.

13 Sep 2017

NHS England head warns of a 'pressurised' winter after reports of hospitals in the southern hemisphere struggling to cope with the flu season

12 Sep 2017

A debate has started over whether the RCN should rejoin a global federation of nurses.

12 Sep 2017

Suicide figures have fallen over the last year, but more than 5,600 people still lost their life in 2016.

12 Sep 2017

Leading nurse and midwife Valerie McGurk, a 2002 Nurse Awards commendee, will fundraise for Cancer Research UK in her retirement.

12 Sep 2017

Reducing the 7,600 nursing and midwifery vacancies across England’s mental health services will be a ‘challenge’, senior health figures have admitted.

12 Sep 2017

People with mental health problems are subject to huge variation across the UK in access to consultant psychiatrists, according to a new analysis.

12 Sep 2017

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