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Dementia

People who do not have the ability to choose how they are cared for are being 'let down' by the very institutions charged with their care, an ombudsman has warned.

19 Jul 2017
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Ambulance response targets

Unions have cautiously welcomed an overhaul to ambulance responses targets that will see fewer 999 calls regarded as life-threatening.

18 Jul 2017
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nurses smoking
Part of government plans for 'smoke-free generation'
18 Jul 2017
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doctors

The NHS will look overseas to recruit about 2,000 more GPs in order to meet its staff targets, the head of NHS England has said.

18 Jul 2017
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Rose Ann Kiss

Middlesex University helps healthcare assistants to transition to nursing.

18 Jul 2017
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Parking row

Nurses are among Cardiff hospital staff who are ‘devastated’ by decision on parking tickets that has left many owing hundreds of pounds.

18 Jul 2017
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Jon Ashworth

The RCN has warned that children's health is in crisis and called for the role of school nurses to be championed.

17 Jul 2017
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Assisted dying

Alison Pickard, a nurse with motor neurone disease, has provided evidence to the high court in support of assisted dying. 

17 Jul 2017
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Peter Griffiths

Peter Griffiths calls for 'concrete' arguments to be made.

17 Jul 2017
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Video call

Patients who ring the ambulance service on 999 could soon be assessed via video-call technology such as Skype if their condition is deemed not life-threatening.

17 Jul 2017
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hammond

Chancellor of the Exchequer Philip Hammond has been branded ‘out of touch’ and ‘insulting’ by nursing unions amid claims he said public-sector worke

17 Jul 2017
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language test

A further trust has added its voice to calls to rethink the language tests required by the Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC) for overseas nurses to work in

14 Jul 2017

Women can expect to spend nearly one quarter of their lives in poor health and men one fifth, a Public Health England report shows.

14 Jul 2017

Shape of Caring review author Lord Willis says employers need to find ways to attract people to the profession and retain staff.

14 Jul 2017

Working long hours increases the risk of developing a dangerous irregular heartbeat, research has shown.

14 Jul 2017

The government is pledging an extra £21 million for cyber security across the NHS in the wake of the WannaCry ransomware attack.

13 Jul 2017

The Cavell Nurses’ Trust received nearly a third more calls from nursing staff in the first half of this year compared with last year.

13 Jul 2017

House of Lords to debate the public sector pay cap, as cross-party group calls for government rethink on ‘detrimental’ policy.

13 Jul 2017

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