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Anne Marie Rafferty

New degree apprenticeships hark back to exploitation of students, says nurse professor.

24 Nov 2016
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This is the competency test centre at the Uni of Nottingham
A new test centre for non-EU and EEA trained nurses will be based at Oxford Brookes University.
24 Nov 2016
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Susan Hamer

Conference speakers urge nurses to help lead change in public health.

24 Nov 2016
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Philip Hammond

The RCN has accused the government of missing an opportunity to tackle the nursing workforce crisis after chancellor Philip Hammond failed to scrap the 1% public sector pay

23 Nov 2016
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Khetsiwe Dlamini

The battle for gender equality has become ‘even more determined and stubborn’ in the wake of the US presidential election result, the RCN International Centenary Conference hear

23 Nov 2016
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Brendan Garry

More than 100 nurses were made Queen’s Nurses, and four others named fellows at a ceremony in London

23 Nov 2016
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Fiona Courtnell

Nurse-led service at Wirral cancer centre frees up bays for patients requiring more complex treatment

23 Nov 2016
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Chris Carter

Resource for those starting out in defence nursing is being developed by the RCN and Birmingham City University. 

23 Nov 2016
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staff re-enactment

Emergency department nurses in London find a novel way to improve care.

23 Nov 2016
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Discussing fertility with teenagers

Valerie Peddie has emphasised the lack of fertility knowledge among young people with cancer

23 Nov 2016
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Fathers are being left out of involvement in their children’s healthcare with potentially devastating consequences, international nursing experts will hear today.

23 Nov 2016
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Health officials are examining whether patients should have to show proof of identity to receive some forms of NHS care.

22 Nov 2016
Nottinghamshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust is making cuts from its health visitor workforce because it will receive less money to provide public health services in the next four years.
22 Nov 2016

Nurses need to get better at trumpeting their unique role in patient care, says England’s chief nurse.

22 Nov 2016

Nursing staff working across the world hold the solutions to many of the biggest challenges facing humanity, says the Royal College of Nursing.

22 Nov 2016

A record number of front-line NHS staff including nurses have received flu vaccinations this year.

22 Nov 2016
A report from Together for Short Lives and Hospice UK reveals huge reductions in local authority funding.
22 Nov 2016

Chief inspector of England’s hospitals pledges his teams will look at provision for carers of people with dementia.

21 Nov 2016

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