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Nurses' financial hardship

A charity providing financial assistance to nurses saw large rise in calls in first three months of 2017.

10 Apr 2017
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Six thousand fewer mature students have applied to study nursing, according to UCAS figures

10 Apr 2017
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Lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender older people are rarely acknowledged by service providers, says a new report. 

07 Apr 2017
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Nursing and Midwifery Council panel heard nurse failed to perform CPR on care home resident and called 111 instead of 999.

07 Apr 2017
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Black and minority ethnic (BME) nurses are disproportionately referred to the Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC) by employers – report.

07 Apr 2017
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Nurses are more likely to take sickness leave if working 12-hour shift patterns, new research shows.

07 Apr 2017
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The NHS could suffer a nursing shortage of up to 42,000 just six years after Brexit, a leaked government projection claims.

07 Apr 2017
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Nurses with ideas for healthcare projects to improve health outcomes of black and minority ethic communities are being encouraged to apply for funding

06 Apr 2017
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Not all patients and nurses benefit from the system on hospital wards known as intentional rounding in which nurses carry out one hourly rounds to improve car

05 Apr 2017
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The RCN is to consult nurses on how it should respond to continuing pay restraint – including whether members should consider taking industrial acti

05 Apr 2017
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Nurses’ influence on policy making is under the spotlight at this year’s RCN International Nursing Research Conference, which has begun in Oxford.

05 Apr 2017
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Report showing nurse, midwife and health visitor numbers rose 1.3% in a year are welcomed by RCN Wales.

05 Apr 2017

Ministers should review pay policy for nurses and other NHS staff and the impact it has on workforce morale, peers have urged.

05 Apr 2017

More than 200,000 nurses and midwives have completed the new system to check they are fit to practice in its first 12 months. 

04 Apr 2017

Cardiff and Vale University Health Board’s nursing home clinic is highly commended in UK’s first awards for work with Parkinson’s disease.

03 Apr 2017

College will continue to fight for fair pay for nurses as the 1% pay cap is set to remain in England, Scotland and Wales.

03 Apr 2017

NHS Improvement has agreed to pause plans to prevent nurses working for an agency if they have a substantive contract

31 Mar 2017

New powers to give warnings and advice on the future conduct in Fitness to Practise (FtP) cases have been welcomed by nurses

31 Mar 2017

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