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Healthcare assistant performing an ECG on a patient

Calling on HCAs to fill nurse staffing gaps is bad for patients – Unison

20 Apr 2018
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RCNi Nurse Awards logo
Awards will celebrate the best of nursing
18 Apr 2018
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Support pay deal
UK’s largest public service union endorses deal at this week’s health conference in Brighton
18 Apr 2018
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A nurse helps an elderly man walking down a corridor

The 70-day challenge aims to get older patients up and about in an effort to speed up their recovery

17 Apr 2018
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Student loans

RCN wants ‘worried and distressed’ healthcare students to receive the financial support they have budgeted for

16 Apr 2018
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Emilia Clarke

TV's mother of dragons is nursing's latest ally in the fight to raise awareness of staff shortages

16 Apr 2018
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Fitness to practise hearings

Regulator’s ruling body agrees proposal to overhaul how it deals with complaints about nurses and midwives in a bid to settle disputes quickly and move away f

13 Apr 2018
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Practice development charity recruiting its next chair

12 Apr 2018
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hospital meal tray

Quality of hospital food should be enforced by legal standards, says Labour health shadow

12 Apr 2018
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Prime minister Theresa May will meet nurses today to discuss the challenges they face and will also set out plans aimed at ensuring that prostate ca

10 Apr 2018
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Hospital staff parking charges

Nurses and other hospital staff are expected to pay for parking at 348 out of the 1,175 hospitals, says motoring research charity RAC Foundation 

09 Apr 2018
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University admissions

RCN says one third fewer nursing student applicants in England since tuition fees replaced the bursary in 2016

05 Apr 2018

Resilience, changing nursing roles and financial challenges will be discussed at an international conference of nurse academics

04 Apr 2018

Around 135,000 cases of cancer in the UK could be prevented every year through lifestyle changes, the study claims.

04 Apr 2018

Midwives can help keep people who have experienced domestic abuse safe by ensuring they remain anonymous on the electoral roll  

03 Apr 2018

Nursing and Midwifery Council approved the fee freeze when deciding on its budget for the coming financial year

03 Apr 2018
Gender gap in speed different sexes move bands
29 Mar 2018

Compassionate Inverclyde project is funded by donations and local support

29 Mar 2018

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