Call for healthcare staff exemptions after long-term permits were deemed invalid
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Report highlights ‘bleak reality’, with an average of one suicide in prison every three days.
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The second wave of sites for training the next cohort of nursing associates has been announced after employers showed ‘real appetite’ for the role.
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Patients are missing out on the best possible care due to a critical shortage of nurses and consultants, experts from a national audit programme have concluded.
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Health secretary Jeremy Hunt has unveiled plans for the new nursing degree apprenticeships.
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More than half of NHS Trust leaders in England are worried they do not have the right staff numbers, quality and skill mix to deliver high-quality care, a new rep
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Nurses should not use personal mobile phones for work, according to new RCN guidance.
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Diabetes specialist nurses teams are reaching ‘breaking point’, according to charity Diabetes UK.
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Northern Ireland’s unique approach to in-service learning and CPD could work in other parts of UK.
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Joanne McEwan’s iPad app helps healthcare professionals to enquire sensitively about the issue.
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Research by the charity Hospice UK reveals that less than a fifth of hospice care for adults is delivered in inpatient units
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An NHS Trust offers nurses jobs immediately after successful interviews, in a bid to boost staff numbers.
A plan for cancer services in Wales calls for palliative care training for nurses and improved access to clinical nurse specialists.
Health professionals, including nurses, are being urged to help tackle sepsis.
Ebola nurse suspended for concealing colleague’s high temperature before virus was diagnosed.
Thousands of nurses have considered leaving UK to work overseas over the last five years, Nursing Standard can reveal.
Brexit could take the nursing workforce to ‘breaking point’, a leading nurse academic has warned.
Executive directors of nursing need support from their boards to be successful in their roles, a leading nurse academic has said.
