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Caroline Watkins
The only nursing professor of stroke care in the UK is among nurses in the new year honours list.
03 Jan 2017
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A nurse-led sexual health clinic has reported a 'significant' 40% fall in HIV diagnoses.
03 Jan 2017
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Replacement hips and breast implants are to have barcodes as part of an NHS scheme to reduce waste, save money and boost patient safety.

03 Jan 2017
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Leading Mary Seacole statue campaigner and the UK’s only nursing professor of stroke care both made a dame in the new year’s honours.

30 Dec 2016
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Nine out of ten nurses believe animals can improve the health of patients with depression and other mental health prob

30 Dec 2016
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RCN president Cecilia Anim
RCN president Cecilia Anim is urging nurses to make their voices heard through petitions, branch activism and meetings in their workplaces.
30 Dec 2016
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GPs under severe winter pressures
Community nurses and GPs will spend so much time ‘firefighting’ urgent cases this winter than they may have no time for chronic disease management, one of the UK’s leading GPs has
29 Dec 2016
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Pfizer's is the largest pharmaceutical company in the world
A mother and son who both have epilepsy are petitioning the UK government to fund a ‘new generation’ of epilepsy nurses using money from fines of pharmaceutical companies that over
29 Dec 2016
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Nurses have paid tribute to George Michael for championing the profession – and recalled how he once put on a concert especially for them.

28 Dec 2016
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NHS hospitals are making more money than ever from car park charges, an investigation has found.

28 Dec 2016
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The NHS needs to spend more money looking after people in their own homes rather than in hospital, the Chief Nursing Officer (CNO) for England has urged.

28 Dec 2016
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A nurse who ended a night shift by discovering she’d won £1 million celebrated her early Christmas present with a feast of crumpets.

23 Dec 2016

Specialist dementia care being withdrawn due to financial pressures.

23 Dec 2016

RCM has attacked the government for failing to publish the response to its summer consultation on changes to regulation.

23 Dec 2016

Nurses and emergency staff working over Christmas have seen their pay plummet by up to 9% over the past five years.

23 Dec 2016

A greater proportion of NHS staff than ever before have been vaccinated against the flu this winter, figures show.

23 Dec 2016

A charity pancreatic cancer telephone support line run by specialist nurses has received national accreditation.

22 Dec 2016
Draft guidance for safe staffing in learning disability (LD) services across England has warned of a ‘serious deficit of skills’ in the future.
22 Dec 2016

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