Health visitors in south Wales set to strike after NHS employer ignores job evaluation appeal
Analysis
A staggering 205,289 written complaints were made to the NHS in England in 2014/15, equating to 562 per day.
Improving patient safety has been the stated ambition of the government since Sir Robert Francis published his report into care faili
More than 60% of nursing directors in England have been in post for three years or less, exclusive research by Nursing Standard revea
It is hard to believe RCN’s new general secretary Janet Davies has been in her role for only two weeks when I meet her at the college
End of life care has been under scrutiny for the past three years, and the topic is back in the headlines with the publication of dra
The issue of shift lengths and patterns is a hot topic in nursing, and while many nurses prefer working 12-hour shifts, there have lo
Over the past year the Nursing and Midwifery Council has sent out a message about its new model of revalidation that the process shou
Chancellor George Osborne’s announcement of a public sector pay cap until 2020 will have left nurses worried about how to make their
Nurses in Greece are facing pay cuts of 40% and have seen health budgets squeezed so tight that supplies of medication and medical eq
A change in immigration rules that will force thousands of overseas nurses to leave the UK could be particularly devastating for empl
Nurses have been calling for new guidance on caring for patients in the final days of life since the much-criticised Liverpool Care P
More than five million people in the UK have asthma and three people die every day because of the condition – yet 90% of these deaths
England’s health service is grappling with an ageing population coupled with a desire for people to live well for longer.
Health secretary Jeremy Hunt pitted the NHS against ‘rip-off staffing agencies’ last week in a bid to save the health service millions of pounds.
The Care Quality Commission (CQC) has published the results of its 12th annual hospital inpatient survey, revealing little improvement in the way patients rate the care they receive.
