Call for healthcare staff exemptions after long-term permits were deemed invalid
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The University of Gloucestershire has been given the green light to offer a new nursing degree from September 2017, after the course was approved, subject to conditions, by the
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The CQC has said clinical governance and leadership at an NHS trust have improved but nurse staffing and training levels remain a concern.
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Health organisations have raised concerns over the government’s decision to allow local authorities in England to increase council tax by 6% over the next two years to pay for soci
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NHS staff are being offered the chance to relax in woodland as part of workshops to ease work pressures.
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Pressures on hospital beds is so severe that the equivalent of seven extra hospitals had to be opened on the busiest day last winter, according to a new analy
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A student has realised her childhood dream of becoming a nurse thanks to a donor-funded scholarship scheme.
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School nurses and teachers should supervise children brushing their teeth to help drive down rates of tooth decay, experts have said.
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Nationals from the European Union (EU) living in the UK should be given the right to permanent residence, urges the report of an independent think-tank published this week.
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The biggest hospital in Europe has been ordered to improve security, after inspectors found that mothers ‘might leave the unit with the wrong baby’.
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A mother who beat breast cancer twice and set up a charity to help others in a similar position has graduated as a midwife.
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A nurse who gave a patient who later died the wrong type of blood has been convicted of unlawful killing by gross negligence.
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Smoking among adults is continuing to fall but obesity and alcohol consumption is still at ‘worrying’ levels according to the Health Survey for England.
A poster exploring how children’s nursing students are supported during community placements has won a prize.
A new tool has been developed to help nurses on emergency wards identify quicker the signs of acute limb compartment syndrome (ALCS).
Former nursing leader Dame Sheila Quinn, who worked tirelessly to promote the profession, has died at the age of 96.
Patient safety could be at risk if nursing students cheat by passing off as their own work essays bought online, a higher education watchdog has warned.
‘Exhausted’ nurses at a Scottish health board are putting patient safety at risk, says a campaign group.
Read our guidance to a resource from the Royal College of Physicians on preventing falls in hospital.
