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Readers panel: will the new Nurse First programme improve recruitment?
NHS England has announced a new two-year fast-track programme aimed at recruiting high-...
27 Apr 2017
Readers panel: is strike action over pay now the only option for nurses?
Following the announcement that the below-inflation 1% pay cap is to remain for 2017-18, the...
24 Apr 2017
Readers panel: Should a year's preceptorship be mandatory on qualifying? ...
Dame Jill Macleod Clark, lead adviser on the development of the NMC's new standards for pre-...
12 Apr 2017
Readers panel: Should NHS staff be put under pressure to give up agency work?
On 1 April, NHS Improvement introduced a measure to stop trusts in England from employing...
01 Apr 2017
Readers panel: Is Jeremy Hunt right to prioritise increased nurse numbers over a pay...
At the recent chief nursing officer's summit, health secretary Jeremy Hunt said he 'dearly'...
31 Mar 2017
Readers panel: Is there a need to improve the image of nursing?
England's chief nursing officer Jane Cummings is embarking on a joint project with the RCN...
27 Mar 2017
Readers panel: should newly qualified nurses be allowed to prescribe?
Under draft education plans from the Nursing and Midwifery Council, newly qualified nurses...
21 Mar 2017
Readers panel: should school nurses be responsible for sex education in schools?
Education secretary Justine Greening recently confirmed that sex and relationship education...
12 Mar 2017
Readers panel: is the NHS heading towards another Mid Staffs-style care scandal?
It has been four years since Sir Robert Francis’ report on poor care at Mid Staffordshire...
09 Mar 2017
Readers panel: do nurses have a duty to set an example to patients and quit smoking?
Public Health England head of digital strategy Mary Black, who lost her father and...
01 Mar 2017
Ian Ireland: local councils look after public health – so why do they back incinerators?
It’s time local authorities woke up to the danger incinerators pose to public health, says...
23 Feb 2017
Joan Pons Laplana: 'I've nursed in the UK for 17 years. I'm not a Brexit...
Joan Pons Laplana is urging people to support the campaign to guarantee the rights of EU...
15 Feb 2017
Readers panel: should longer GP consultations be an NHS priority?
The average consultation time with a GP in the UK is ten minutes. Research by The Health...
14 Feb 2017
Readers panel: Should the law be changed to make it a specific criminal offence to...
Radio presenter Nick Ferrari has set up a petition calling for a change in the law to give...
08 Feb 2017
Letter: Nursing AIDS patients in the 80s gave me strength to deal with extreme care...
Jackie Hunt says our article on AIDS wards in the 80s reminded her of the challenges of...
03 Feb 2017
Readers’ panel: Is the NMC right to regulate the nursing associate role?
The Nursing and Midwifery Council recently confirmed that it will be the regulator for the...
02 Feb 2017
Readers’ panel: Is the emotional toll on nurses who have to deliver sub-optimal care...
RCN chief executive Janet Davies has said nurses are at ‘breaking point’, with frontline...
24 Jan 2017
Readers’ panel: Should the four-hour A&E target be scrapped?
Amid unprecedented winter pressures, health secretary Jeremy Hunt recently suggested that...
18 Jan 2017