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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
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Sir Bruce Keogh

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

14 Sep 2017
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Sarah Wollaston

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

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

Four new mother and baby units will open in England to support women with the most serious mental health conditions.

13 Sep 2017
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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
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Suicide figures have fallen over the last year, but more than 5,600 people still lost their life in 2016.

12 Sep 2017
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Claire Murdoch

Reducing the 7,600 nursing and midwifery vacancies across England’s mental health services will be a ‘challenge’, senior health figures have admitted.

12 Sep 2017
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People with mental health problems are subject to huge variation across the UK in access to consultant psychiatrists, according to a new analysis.

12 Sep 2017
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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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The 1% pay cap is set to be lifted for police and prison officers, prompting speculation that nurses’ pay may increase too.

12 Sep 2017

Britain's shortage of nurses and midwives could increase by 20,000 by 2020 if trends following last year's Brexit referendum continue, the government has been warned.

12 Sep 2017

Plans to sell off a major NHS staffing agency have been abandoned by the government.

07 Sep 2017

A revised toolkit for school nurses has been published by the RCN.

07 Sep 2017
Unregistered support staff working under specialist nurse job titles, study reveals
07 Sep 2017
RCN rally calls for end to 1% pay cap
06 Sep 2017

Survey shows 72% of midwives and health visitors believe training about pre and postnatal mental illness is insufficient.

06 Sep 2017

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