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Letter: Let’s support our students, not knock them down
Caroline Ridley urges mentors to be more encouraging
06 Oct 2016
Readers’ panel: Are healthcare assistants providing ‘nursing on the cheap’?
A Unison survey of almost 2,300 UK healthcare assistants found that many are doing the jobs...
05 Oct 2016
Letter: Nurses up before NMC are being treated inhumanely
Michael Owen says fitness to practice cases are taking too long to come to a hearing
29 Sep 2016
Readers’ panel: Should IVF be a higher funding priority for the NHS?
Guidelines from the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence say women aged 40 and...
27 Sep 2016
Letter: It's time to address the crisis in district nursing ...
Alexandra Murrell says we can learn from the Netherlands when it comes to district nursing
22 Sep 2016
Readers' panel: Should trusts offer nurses the chance to opt out of the NHS
A Hertfordshire trust is offering band 5 and 6 nurse recruits the option of staying outside
21 Sep 2016
Letter: 20 years on we face the same crisis in emergency care
Gary Jones asks how much longer we must endure the annual prospect of winter pressures on...
16 Sep 2016
Letter: Nurses have nothing to fear from the CQC
Donato Tallo says healthcare staff should always 'act as if someone is watching'
16 Sep 2016
Readers' panel: Given the current funding crisis, will rationing become the norm
NHS England recently asked Vale of York clinical commissioning group to review plans to deny
15 Sep 2016
Struggling health visitors have no time to address child obesity
The government is adding to health visitors' already impossible workload
09 Sep 2016
Readers' panel: Is the BMA ‘playing politics’ in the junior doctors’ dispute?
Prime Minister Theresa May has accused the British Medical Association of ‘playing politics
06 Sep 2016
Letter: regulators must act to protect patients from fall-out from junior doctors...
As the junior doctors escalate their industrial action, Susan Osborne asks : where are the...
01 Sep 2016
Readers’ panel: Is the childhood obesity strategy too weak to make a difference?
The long-awaited childhood obesity strategy was published this month (August) to a chorus of...
30 Aug 2016
Letter: who should lead clinical trials?
More non-medics are moving into this role, but a competency framework is needed
26 Aug 2016
Letter: Token gifts should not pose a problem for nurses
Nurse Donato Tallo argues that policies and guidance protect nurses accepting token gifts of...
23 Aug 2016
Readers panel: Should nurses ditch the Pay Review Body and negotiate directly with the
Health secretary Jeremy Hunt has instructed the NHS Pay Review Body to recommend a rise of 1
22 Aug 2016
Letter: My advice to new nursing students
Enjoy the journey, learn from every opportunity and never forget why you want to be a nurse…...
19 Aug 2016
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