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EU nurses must have right to stay if there is no Brexit deal, RCN says
EU nurses’ right to stay in the UK must be guaranteed even if there is no Brexit deal, the...
26 Jun 2018
Child obesity plan won't work without more public health funding – RCN...
College wants school nurse and health visitor posts to be returned to the NHS
25 Jun 2018
NHS pay in Scotland: 'the biggest rise in a decade'...
Nurses on AfC offered 9% pay increase – with reform of terms and conditions
25 Jun 2018
‘Blame culture must change to learning culture’ to prevent repeat of Gosport scandal
Health and social care secretary Jeremy Hunt says it is too hard for staff to raise concerns
22 Jun 2018
Gosport evidence: ‘It appeared to me euthanasia was practised by the nursing staff’
Auxiliary at Gosport War Memorial Hospital told police about events on the 'dead loss ward'
22 Jun 2018
Gosport scandal: ‘my mum had to leave her job after speaking up about opioids’
Sylvia Giffin was among the Gosport War Memorial Hospital nurses who tried to act on concerns
22 Jun 2018
Gosport hospital deaths review found nurses’ warnings on opioids went unheeded
Review into hundreds of untimely deaths said night duty nurses were stifled when they spoke...
20 Jun 2018
Expert panel to advise government on cannabis for medical use
Home secretary says government plans to reschedule banned drug if review identifies ‘...
20 Jun 2018
Jeremy Hunt accused of broken promises for delaying social care green paper
NHS funding boost and need to revise spending plans given as reason for social care green...
19 Jun 2018
FtP is about patient safety, not private behaviour, RCN tells regulator
Some outcomes suggest ‘moral policing’, with nurses being held to a different standard,...
19 Jun 2018
Government's NHS funding boost is 'no long-term solution' without social...
RCN and social care leaders call for extra investment to shore up home care services
18 Jun 2018
Perinatal mortality down, but better reporting would support care improvements
Better-quality data on baby deaths would help target services where they're needed most
18 Jun 2018
Confed 18 looks to the future of the NHS workforce
Confed 18 fringe imagines working life in the NHS in 2026
15 Jun 2018
NHS Windrush 70 Awards winners represent the ‘best of the NHS’
‘We treasure you as much as the NHS itself’, PM Theresa May tells Windrush Awards winners
14 Jun 2018
Immigration rules to be eased so NHS can recruit more skilled staff
Thousands more nurses and doctors to be recruited from abroad
14 Jun 2018
Classify healthcare as a safety-critical industry, says RCN
‘Patient safety investigations should look at pressures on staff before blaming individuals’
14 Jun 2018
NMC to update reflective practice guidance in wake of Bawa-Garba ruling
Healthcare regulators need to review their advice about reflection, Williams report states
12 Jun 2018
Integration of health and social care at risk, say MPs
‘Government has failed to explain its vision for health and social care to professionals and...
12 Jun 2018