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Jane Barton & husband

Report finds hundreds of people's lives were shortened by administration of opioids

27 Jun 2018
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Social care

A cross-party group of MPs is urging the government to consider a 'social insurance system', with the additional funds generated being used to fund social care

27 Jun 2018
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Heatwave warning

Temperatures in England could exceed 30ºC over the next few days as Met Office raises heat-health watch to level 2

26 Jun 2018
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How Good is the NHS?

According to new UK analysis by four leading think tanks, the NHS has 'markedly fewer' nurses and doctors compared with other similar countries

26 Jun 2018
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EU nurses’ right to stay in the UK must be guaranteed even if there is no Brexit deal, the RCN says
26 Jun 2018
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Scottish money

Nurses on AfC offered 9% pay increase – with reform of terms and conditions

25 Jun 2018
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Health and social care secretary Jeremy Hunt says it is too hard for staff to raise concerns

22 Jun 2018
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Auxiliary at Gosport War Memorial Hospital told police about events on the 'dead loss ward'

22 Jun 2018
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Penny Wilson

Sylvia Giffin was among the Gosport War Memorial Hospital nurses who tried to act on concerns 

22 Jun 2018
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Gosport War Memorial Hospital

Review into hundreds of untimely deaths said night duty nurses were stifled when they spoke up

20 Jun 2018
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Home secretary says government plans to reschedule banned drug if review identifies ‘significant medical benefits’

20 Jun 2018
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Social care

NHS funding boost and need to revise spending plans given as reason for social care green paper delay

19 Jun 2018

Some outcomes suggest ‘moral policing’, with nurses being held to a different standard, college tells NMC

19 Jun 2018

RCN and social care leaders call for extra investment to shore up home care services

18 Jun 2018

Every acute hospital in England to ease visiting restrictions as part of John's Campaign 

15 Jun 2018

Confed 18 fringe imagines working life in the NHS in 2026

15 Jun 2018

‘We treasure you as much as the NHS itself’, PM Theresa May tells Windrush Awards winners

14 Jun 2018

Thousands more nurses and doctors to be recruited from abroad

14 Jun 2018

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