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Sick nurse

NHS staff are still putting themselves under pressure to go to work when feeling unable to perform their duties, an official survey has revealed.

07 Mar 2017
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Sandwell and West Birmingham Hospitals NHS Trust obtained staff at the event in Birmingham

07 Mar 2017
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Community nursing charity the Queen's Nursing Institute (QNI) has launched a new website.

07 Mar 2017
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Nursing Standard has joined forces with The Sunday Mirror and The Sunday People for a UK-wide survey to find out what nurses and healthcare assistants think about patient care,

07 Mar 2017
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Palace date for Unison head of nursing Gail Adams

06 Mar 2017
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Nurse associate training

Health Education England confirms proposals to train more nursing associates. 

06 Mar 2017
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Our NHS march

An estimated quarter of a million people joined a march through the streets of London in support of the NHS.

06 Mar 2017
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Record numbers of nurses and healthcare assistants have applied for hardship grants, the RCN has said.

06 Mar 2017
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Leaving

Half of nurses leaving jobs at NHS trusts do so for ‘unknown reasons’, while thousands have left citing ‘work-life balance’, new data reveals.

03 Mar 2017
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The government must get serious about building the school nursing workforce – if sex education is to be compulsory in every secondary school, says the RCN.

03 Mar 2017
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NHS England is clamping down on the closure of hospital beds.

03 Mar 2017

A lobster replaced the Welsh dragon on flags around Wales on St David’s Day, as part of a skin cancer awareness campaign.

03 Mar 2017

Nurses and other health professionals caring for dying people should do more to ask about spiritual beliefs – NICE

02 Mar 2017

The NHS 'stands on a burning platform' with four out of five trusts needing to improve on patient safety, England's top hospital inspector has warned.

02 Mar 2017

The It's Our NHS event will see people march to a rally at the Houses of Parliament.

02 Mar 2017

Young expectant mothers, enrolled in Solent NHS Trust's family nurse partnership, will receive £20 shopping vouchers for each month of their pregnancy in which they do not smoke.

02 Mar 2017

University of Northampton creates larger testing facility for nurses trained overseas.

02 Mar 2017

European Union migrants working in the health service should be given an immediate right to remain under an ‘NHS passport’, former deputy prime minister Nick Clegg has urged.

01 Mar 2017

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