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The Nursing and Midwifery Council's (NMC) annual registration fee will remain at £120 for the coming financial year, the regulator has confirmed.

30 Mar 2017
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Women in the boardroom

Report calls for an additional 500 female-held NHS board seats by 2020.

30 Mar 2017
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Unfilled shifts

Many shifts could remain unfilled after restrictions on NHS staff doing agency work are introduced, early survey results suggest.

30 Mar 2017
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Sarah Kuteh

Sarah Kutie, who was sacked for gross misconduct, will appear at an employment tribunal tomorrow (Thursday).

29 Mar 2017
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Nurses at a hospital in Kent face uncertainty as more than half its junior doctors are moved to other sites.  

29 Mar 2017
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St Mary's Hospital

London trust has linked integrated bedside devices with an electronic patient record system.
 

29 Mar 2017
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Leukaemia

Leukaemia Care survey finds that only 49% of respondents have access to a clinical nurse specialist after diagnosis – and the figure rises to almost two thirds among those over

29 Mar 2017
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Joan Pons Laplana

A European Union nurse has urged that guaranteeing the working rights of European nurses be made a ‘top priority’ as the government triggers Article 50 today.

29 Mar 2017
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Two new dedicated programmes to equip talented nurses for leadership roles have been announced.

28 Mar 2017
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Children's nurse

Doubts continue despite a statement of reassurance from the government.

28 Mar 2017
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Thousands of children with long-term medical conditions are being put at risk every time they go to school, a group of charities has warned.

28 Mar 2017
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Janet Davies

Nurses in England to receive 1% pay rise

28 Mar 2017

The photos, diaries and scrapbooks of nine nurses from the first world war are to be catalogued digitally as RCN prepares for defence nursing exhibition.

28 Mar 2017

Nurses in Wales are set to get a 1% pay rise from April, as the NHS pay cap continues for a seventh year.

28 Mar 2017

Government is advised not to approve screening for Group B Streptococcus (GBS) at 35-37 weeks of pregnancy.

27 Mar 2017

The importance of a strong nursing workforce has been identified in a new report focused on England.

27 Mar 2017

A school nurse-led text messaging service that offers confidential health advice to secondary school children can now be accessed by one million users.

27 Mar 2017

University of Southampton professor and nursing workforce researcher Peter Griffiths named senior investigator by the National Institute for Health Research

 

27 Mar 2017

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