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Prostate cancer

Three London hospitals are offering men mpMRI scans to detect prostate cancer in one-day service

08 Mar 2018
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Technology should be used to enable nurses to know their shift pattern a year in advance, which would help people working under pressure and cut sickness rate

08 Mar 2018
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Norovirus shuts wards

Almost 75,000 NHS beds in England have been closed due to norovirus over the course of the winter, new analysis of NHS figures suggest

08 Mar 2018
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England's chief nursing officer has called on universities to expand the number of nursing student places offered, as part of her drive to improve nurse

08 Mar 2018
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Chief nursing officer acknowledges nurses’ frustration over funding cuts, but says profession should explore other opportunities for development and training

08 Mar 2018
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Jane Cummings

Jane Cummings used her summit speech to promote a new nursing recruitment campaign

07 Mar 2018
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Nursing leader Hilary Chapman from Barnsley has been made a Dame, Commander of the Order of the British Empire

07 Mar 2018
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Depressed nurse

More than one third of NHS staff in England have experienced work-related stress in the past year, according to the largest workforce survey in the world

06 Mar 2018
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London-based nurses say their right to statutory holiday pay was not made clear by NHS Professionals, and now it’s too late to claim

06 Mar 2018
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Philip Graf, a law graduate who has held key roles in the media and government regulation, will succeed Dame Janet Finch as chair of the Nursing and Midwifery

02 Mar 2018
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Only 1% more health and social care staff in Scotland feel there is sufficient staffing at their workplace compared to three years ago, a survey has found

02 Mar 2018
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Nurses are going above and beyond to get to work during the snow storm
02 Mar 2018

RCN gives evidence to the Health and Social Care Committee stating that one quarter of nurses had not engaged with the sustainability and transformation partnerships process

01 Mar 2018

Nurses have battled against the 'beast from the east' and Storm Emma to reach patients over the last few days despite rail and road travel chaos

01 Mar 2018

The number of nurses and health visitors in England has fallen, while senior managerial staff have increased, according to figures from NHS Digital

28 Feb 2018

Dissatisfaction with the NHS increases to its highest level since 2007 according to annual study

28 Feb 2018

The Childhood Eye Cancer Trust says 32% of children diagnosed with retinoblastoma last year had a delay of at least a month from their first visit to a GP or healthcare professional to being seen by a specialist

28 Feb 2018

The All Party Parliamentary Group on Breast Cancer find disparities in care services with only 62% of breast cancers detected early in some areas compared with almost 90% in top-performing areas.

27 Feb 2018

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