Health visitors in south Wales set to strike after NHS employer ignores job evaluation appeal
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An ambitious international project is aiming to capture nursing students' placement experiences and use them to improve patient safety practice across the board.
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How big a problem are delayed discharges and what can be done to reduce them?
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With services reported to be at breaking point, it is clear the NHS is struggling to cope with demand. But what is driving the crisis?
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How does an NHS trust rocked by a scandal in which patients died turn itself around and earn an outstanding care rating from the Care Quality Commission?
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The National Institute for Health and Care Excellence's reluctance to recommend Kadcyla for routine NHS funding, has sparked calls for a new approach to the funding of expe
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As part of Nursing Standard’s series celebrating modern nursing roles in the UK, three nurses in Wales explain how they improved continence services, ensured consisten
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A film has captured nurses' harrowing but inspiring experiences
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The ‘information prescription’ tool, developed by Diabetes UK, alerts clinicians to key patient details during consultations, making it easier to provide tailor-made c
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Nurses have been largely sidelined in the development of NHS sustainability and transformation plans (STPs), though they will affect thousands of jobs.
A joint initiative between Stonewall and Cardiff University is embedding LGBT awareness in nursing degree courses.
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US health expert supporting new England care models praises successful vanguard site
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Lead nurse Victoria Thorne explains how redesigning end of life care provision in north Manchester has improved services for patients and made
Nurse Pam Kehoe explains how a carer’s complaint about the lack of dementia support prompted her trust to launch one of the first Admiral Nursing services in an acute setting.
Nursing Standard’s series celebrating modern nursing roles in the UK continues with a focus on three nurses in the East Midlands who are achieving outstanding results in managing asthma, reducing falls in hospital, and tracking pressure ulcer incidence.
Donald Trump’s victory in the US presidential election in November stunned the world. As he appoints his top team ahead of his inauguration on January 20, Alison Moore considers what the next four years will mean for nurses and health care in the US.
Kinta Beaver leads the Endometrial Cancer Telephone (ENDCAT) trial team. Here, she explains the benefit of having specialist nurses provide a telephone follow-up service for patients.
Macmillan Cancer Support has identified eight behaviours that can help staff build a positive relationship with patients and improve care. The values-based standard is already achieving results at the troubled Barts Health NHS Trust.
Five years of the 1% cap on pay rises have left NHS nurses up to 14% worse off in real terms. As the RCN presents evidence to support a fairer deal for nurses, we look at the human cost of pay restraint.
