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NHS pay rise

Ministers have been warned they will need to find additional funding for the NHS if staff are to receive pay rises above 1%.

11 Oct 2017
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Stop assaults

Nurses who have been assaulted while at work will lobby MPs next week to push for tougher sanctions for those who attack NHS staff.

11 Oct 2017
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Jeremy Hunt
Health secretary made the announcement to MPs
10 Oct 2017
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NMC

Six ‘platforms’ trainees are expected to reach on registration include accountability, health promotion, improving care and health promotion

10 Oct 2017
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The NHS is straining at the seams as it juggles problems with staffing shortages, rising demand and increasing numbers of patients with preventable illnesses,

10 Oct 2017
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Mental health workers have shared stories of being punched, bitten and kicked as they explain how reductions in staffing levels are leaving them vulnerable to

09 Oct 2017
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Epipen

A change in the law allows schools to purchase spare adrenaline auto-injectors to use on children with serious allergies.

06 Oct 2017
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Unprepared for Apps
Universities to get share of £4.9 million funding
06 Oct 2017
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Margaret Kerr Grey Allan

A tribute to nurse Margaret (Margot) Kerr Grey Allan (1932-2017).

06 Oct 2017
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Donor card

Proposals for England receive warm welcome.

05 Oct 2017
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University Hospitals of Leicester

A trust with about 500 nursing vacancies has said it is considering filling some nursing roles with other staff, such as pharmacists or physiotherapists

05 Oct 2017
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NHS Improvement confirms ten incidents of incorrect or hasty infusion of total parenteral nutrition resulting in severe harm to babies, but says there could be hundred

03 Oct 2017

A new preceptorship framework for nurses working in London has been launched by the Capital Nurse programme.

29 Sep 2017

Regional advisory networks for Black and Minority Ethnic (BME) issues are to be established in England in a bid to increase understanding of local concerns.

29 Sep 2017

Nominee says nursing is about more than just technical skills.

29 Sep 2017
Staff shortages compromising patient care, RCN poll finds
29 Sep 2017

More work is needed to boost the field of nurse research, says the Council of Deans of Health chair Brian Webster-Henderson.

28 Sep 2017

The RCN will move towards balloting members on industrial action if the 1% cap on NHS pay is not lifted by the November budget.

28 Sep 2017

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