Call for healthcare staff exemptions after long-term permits were deemed invalid
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Report warns that in England the number of midwives leaving due to retirement or lack of flexible working is offsetting recruitment
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Leicester’s Hospitals’ new sepsis team will work in emergency department and combines healthcare professionals from intensive and critical care, emergency and theatre
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The number of unexpected patient deaths in mental health trusts has risen by almost 50% in three years, data reveals.
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NHS trusts will be legally obliged from April to check if overseas patients are eligible for free care – but unions fear it will further stretch an already bu
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Details of funding for students starting nursing and midwifery courses in 2016-17 have been outlined.
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An award-winning nurse who died after setting himself on fire outside Kensington Palace suffered a ‘mental breakdown’ over how his NHS employers handled his dismissal, an inques
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A mentoring scheme, which reverses the roles of mentor and mentee, could help increase the number of senior BME nurses.
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Extra Fitness to Practise (FtP) hearings are being held over the next three months to clear the Nursing and Midwifery Council's (NMC) outstanding caseload, but will co
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A national audit found 43% of patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease patients are readmitted to hospital at least once within 90 days of discharg
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RCN analysis figures show nurses with RCN representation are more likely to have no sanction brought against them at Nursing and Midwifery Council fitness to practise
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Figures released by Cancer Research UK have highlighted potentially bad lifestyle factors causing rising cancer rates in women.
Nurses and academics in the UK and Jamaica could soon be changing places under the terms of an innovative faculty exchange and rotation programme.
Patron’s Fund grant will be used to host a day of celebration for working and retired Queen’s nurses at Frogmore in Windsor
Nearly 2,000 nurses have expressed interest in being early adopters of the RCN’s new ‘credentialing’ process for advanced practice, which will launch in April
Research project will evaluate whether holding a specialist qualification boosts district nurses’ assertiveness.
Primary school children are more likely to identify a woman as a nurse and a man as a surgeon, according to new research.
Nurses at Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust are leading a campaign to get patients out of bed and dressed during the day in a bid get them more active.
