NMC faces backlash after failing to review health and criminal declarations for 18,000+ registrants
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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.
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Unions have cautiously welcomed an overhaul to ambulance responses targets that will see fewer 999 calls regarded as life-threatening.
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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.
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Middlesex University helps healthcare assistants to transition to nursing.
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Nurses are among Cardiff hospital staff who are ‘devastated’ by decision on parking tickets that has left many owing hundreds of pounds.
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The RCN has warned that children's health is in crisis and called for the role of school nurses to be championed.
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Alison Pickard, a nurse with motor neurone disease, has provided evidence to the high court in support of assisted dying.
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Peter Griffiths calls for 'concrete' arguments to be made.
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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.
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Chancellor of the Exchequer Philip Hammond has been branded ‘out of touch’ and ‘insulting’ by nursing unions amid claims he said public-sector worke
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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
Women can expect to spend nearly one quarter of their lives in poor health and men one fifth, a Public Health England report shows.
Shape of Caring review author Lord Willis says employers need to find ways to attract people to the profession and retain staff.
Working long hours increases the risk of developing a dangerous irregular heartbeat, research has shown.
The government is pledging an extra £21 million for cyber security across the NHS in the wake of the WannaCry ransomware attack.
The Cavell Nurses’ Trust received nearly a third more calls from nursing staff in the first half of this year compared with last year.
House of Lords to debate the public sector pay cap, as cross-party group calls for government rethink on ‘detrimental’ policy.
