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Failing to remove the cap on health sector pay increases would increase problems with ‘recruitment, retention and motivation’ a new report claims.

21 Sep 2017
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Defibrillator awareness campaign

Two nurses aim to raise awareness of sudden cardiac death.

20 Sep 2017
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New pathway to help healthcare assistants train to become registered nurses
20 Sep 2017
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Paramedics

One in eight staff at England’s ten ambulance trusts have taken time off due to stress or anxiety in the past year, figures from the GMB show

20 Sep 2017
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Study revealed some trusts call unqualified support staff 'nurses'.
20 Sep 2017
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Norman Lamb

Norman Lamb calls for wage hike at Lib Dem party conference.

19 Sep 2017
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A national development programme aimed at newly qualified nurses, midwives and allied health professionals across Scotland is being relaunched.

19 Sep 2017
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The qualitiy of university teaching and graduate outcomes are to be examined as part of an education committee inquiry. 

18 Sep 2017
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Almost 1,400 overseas nurses who applied to work in the UK in the past two years have failed their English language tests, Nursing Standard can reveal.

18 Sep 2017
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In a break with tradition, unions have submitted a pay claim directly to the government
15 Sep 2017
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Jane Cummings

High-achieving graduates will begin path to nursing leadership.

14 Sep 2017
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A new generation of Nightingale Nurses will be created at Guy’s and St Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust.

14 Sep 2017

Nurses should become ‘agents for change’ in the NHS, according to the outgoing medical director for NHS England Sir Bruce Keogh.

14 Sep 2017

The Commons health committee has launched an inquiry into pressures facing the nursing workforce.

14 Sep 2017

Staff from 25 trusts that responded to the terror attacks in Manchester and London and the Grenfell Tower fire received special recognition awards at the Kate Granger Compassionate Care Awards

14 Sep 2017
MPs back call for end to the public sector pay cap for NHS
14 Sep 2017

Thousands of nurses, care home staff and pharmacists are to be urged to look out for symptoms of sepsis, Jeremy Hunt has announced.

13 Sep 2017

More than one in 10 of the world's pagers is being used in the NHS, according to estimates.

12 Sep 2017

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