Health visitors in south Wales set to strike after NHS employer ignores job evaluation appeal
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Middlesex University helps healthcare assistants to transition to nursing.
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Patients who ring the ambulance service on 999 could soon be assessed via video-call technology such as Skype if their condition is deemed not life-threatening.
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Chancellor of the Exchequer Philip Hammond has been branded ‘out of touch’ and ‘insulting’ by nursing unions amid claims he said public-sector worke
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A further trust has added its voice to calls to rethink the language tests required by the Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC) for overseas nurses to work in
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Shape of Caring review author Lord Willis says employers need to find ways to attract people to the profession and retain staff.
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Working long hours increases the risk of developing a dangerous irregular heartbeat, research has shown.
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The government is pledging an extra £21 million for cyber security across the NHS in the wake of the WannaCry ransomware attack.
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The Cavell Nurses’ Trust received nearly a third more calls from nursing staff in the first half of this year compared with last year.
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House of Lords to debate the public sector pay cap, as cross-party group calls for government rethink on ‘detrimental’ policy.
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The number of nursing degree applicants to universities in the UK has fallen by 19% in the past year, according to official figures.
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Our Health Heroes Awards recognise healthcare support workers, apprentices and teamwork.
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Some NHS hospital organisations have more than 1,000 staff vacancies while others have left crucial roles unfilled for up to two years, an investigation has r
More than 50,000 people are alive thanks to organ donation, new figures show.
A nurse who lied to his wife and friends for seven years about being a leading surgeon has been struck off the Nursing and Midwifery Council register.
One of the last pre-registration nursing courses to offer a bursary gets underway at the University of Birmingham.
RCN warning after government insists pay cap will stay
Health secretary Jeremy Hunt has been asked how the government can afford a £1 billion deal with the Democratic Unionist Party, but not to boost nurse wages in England.
Nursing Standard publisher RCNi is looking for a new chair to provide the board with clear leadership.
