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Anne Marie Rafferty

New degree apprenticeships hark back to exploitation of students, says nurse professor.

24 Nov 2016
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This is the competency test centre at the Uni of Nottingham
A new test centre for non-EU and EEA trained nurses will be based at Oxford Brookes University.
24 Nov 2016
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Philip Hammond

The RCN has accused the government of missing an opportunity to tackle the nursing workforce crisis after chancellor Philip Hammond failed to scrap the 1% public sector pay

23 Nov 2016
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Khetsiwe Dlamini

The battle for gender equality has become ‘even more determined and stubborn’ in the wake of the US presidential election result, the RCN International Centenary Conference hear

23 Nov 2016
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Fathers are being left out of involvement in their children’s healthcare with potentially devastating consequences, international nursing experts will hear today.

23 Nov 2016
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Health officials are examining whether patients should have to show proof of identity to receive some forms of NHS care.

22 Nov 2016
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Health visitor cuts
Nottinghamshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust is making cuts from its health visitor workforce because it will receive less money to provide public health services in the next fo
22 Nov 2016
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Jane Cummings

Nurses need to get better at trumpeting their unique role in patient care, says England’s chief nurse.

22 Nov 2016
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record numbers

A record number of front-line NHS staff including nurses have received flu vaccinations this year.

22 Nov 2016
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palliative care
A report from Together for Short Lives and Hospice UK reveals huge reductions in local authority funding.
22 Nov 2016
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Katerina Kolyva
The Council of Deans of Health has announced the appointment of a new executive director.
21 Nov 2016
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New BBC4 documentary tells the story of the thousands of women from the Caribbean and Africa who answered the call 70 years ago to come to the UK to save the then ailing health ser
21 Nov 2016

Nursing associates will only be able to administer medicines if suitably trained and competent, in settings where it is deemed appropriate, and will be guided by employer medicines management policies, according to Health Education England (HEE).

18 Nov 2016
Dame Julie Moore described the situation at her NHS trust post-Brexit to a House of Lords select committee.
18 Nov 2016

Ms Anim will remain in post for the next two years following a membership vote.

18 Nov 2016

More than half of NHS trusts employing district nurses have seen a fall in their numbers since 2014/15.

18 Nov 2016

More than a third of home care workers in England have had no training in dementia care – Alzheimer’s Society.

17 Nov 2016
Introducing specialist domestic abuse advisors in hospitals would help nurses to better support victims, a charity says.
17 Nov 2016

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