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All new nurses should complete a mandatory preceptorship year to help them meet new Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC) requirements, an academic leading the regu

21 Mar 2017
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Health secretary Jeremy Hunt has downplayed fears that Brexit will lead to a collapse in the recruitment of European Union health professionals.

21 Mar 2017
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Michael Brown

Organisations must support nurses' well-being if they are to deliver high standards of care.

21 Mar 2017
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Pauline Cafferkey

Doctor admits 'misleading' other health professionals during airport screening in relation to the nurse's temperature but denies misconduct

21 Mar 2017
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Voting is now open for the Patient’s Choice category of the RCNi Nurse Awards 2017, the profession’s top accolade for nursing excellence.

20 Mar 2017
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HALT launch

Campaign encourages staff to take frequent breaks and improve their health and well-being.

20 Mar 2017
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'Quit'

More than half of nurses (52%) are considering quitting the NHS as work pressures continue to ratchet, an exclusive survey by Nursing Standard and the Sunday Mirror ha

19 Mar 2017
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Suicidal nurses

Nurses have an higher risk of suicide according to an analysis by the Office for National Statistics (ONS).

17 Mar 2017
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A new academic course is hoping to increase nurse-led research, improve front-line practice and reduce staff burnout.

16 Mar 2017
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Health secretary Jeremy Hunt says he 'dearly' wants to increase nurse pay – but is restricted by limited resources and other pressures on the NHS.

15 Mar 2017
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The RCN has helped create a new tool to aid nurses and other health professionals in developing treatment plans with patients should they require emergen

14 Mar 2017
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Nurses from the EU face an 'uncertain future' and need our support, Jane Cummings said, as she opened her fifth Chief Nursing Officer Summit in Birmingham.

14 Mar 2017

College says the government must exempt healthcare workers from new immigration charge.

13 Mar 2017

The National Institute for Health and Care Excellence is urging hospital staff to treat people with life-threatening sepsis symptoms within one hour.

10 Mar 2017

Service alteration aims to ease pressures on wider health service.

10 Mar 2017

NHS England figures reveal 1,000 people waited over 12 hours to be admitted to emergency departments.

10 Mar 2017

Current NHS pressures are recreating the circumstances that led to disastrous failings at Mid Staffordshire NHS Foundation Trust, according to the nurse brought in to turn the hospital around.

10 Mar 2017

The falling number of European Union (EU) nurses applying to work in the UK has been widely blamed on Brexit.

09 Mar 2017

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