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A report by think tank the Nuffield Trust has called for advanced nurse practitioner (ANP) roles to be further developed to help plug

11 May 2016

A nationwide survey of people living with sickle cell disease in England has revealed that information provision and lack of pub

11 May 2016

By the start of this month, the first emergency nurses to use the new revalidation system will have completed their applications and

08 Apr 2016

Caring for older people in emergency departments is one of the biggest challenges facing hospitals, not only because of the numb

07 Mar 2016

Ensuring that people receive the right type of urgent care when they need it has been a difficult issue for the NHS, and the problem

07 Mar 2016

Suppressed safe staffing guidance calling for minimum nurse-to-patient ratios in NHS emergency departments (EDs) was leaked to the me

08 Feb 2016

Faster access to specialist care for frail older patients at a Kent emergency department (ED) has cut how long they spend in hospital

08 Feb 2016

Hospital staff are bracing themselves for a surge in emergency admissions this winter, but a new report claims the effect of the rise

07 Dec 2015

The NHS could not be better prepared for winter.

06 Nov 2015

A new epilepsy passport has been created for about 60,000 children in the UK who have the the condition

06 Nov 2015

A new technique to remove blood clots from arteries could soon be integrated into everyday practice to treat patients with ischaemic

06 Nov 2015

Over the next few weeks, chief nursing officer for England Jane Cummings and her team will draw up the first draft of a new nursing a

06 Nov 2015

Nurse working in emergency departments will be familiar with the severe injuries and chaos that result when collisions on the road occur

09 Oct 2015

News that the British Medical Association has agreed to renegotiate the clause in consultants’ contracts that allows them to opt out of non-emergency weekend duties makes seven-day services in the NHS even more likely

09 Oct 2015
When a child visits an emergency department regularly, staff will generally start to suspect whether they could be treating a victim of abuse.
07 Sep 2015

Plans to publish guidance on safe staffing levels in emergency departments (EDs) have been shelved after weeks of speculation about when or if the guidance will appear

07 Sep 2015

Emergency Nurse Anna Crossley has a CV that anyone who desires travel and adventure would envy. ‘Someone once told me that my CV was like Marmite; you would either love it or hate it,’ she laughs.

07 Sep 2015

People facing mental health crises often think they are being judged and disrespected by emergency care staff, according to evidence compiled by the Care Quality Commission

10 Jul 2015

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