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Paul Chesnaye and Jake Flint

Adult nursing students in London have been randomly selected to undergo a six-week placement with a mental health team.

04 May 2017
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Crystal Oldman

Ten nurses and allied health professionals have been awarded fellowships to travel abroad and investigate healthcare practice.

03 May 2017
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Labour shadow health secretary Jonathan Ashworth promised a review of closures across the NHS and sustainability and transformation plans.

03 May 2017
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Emergency departments

Report says when consultants are in the emergency department to assess patients, there is less replication of work and decisions about next steps are made more quickly

03 May 2017
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Relatives who call patients in hospital are still being forced to pay 'rip off' charges of 50p a minute despite a promised clampdown on the issue.

03 May 2017
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Hardship grants

Eight nurses a day seek urgent help to cope with the rising cost of living and one-in-four callers receive hardship grants according to the RCN whic

03 May 2017
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Two new council members have been appointed to the Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC).

02 May 2017
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Theresa May

Theresa May critised by nursing leaders and Labour MPs for failing to explicitly say if it is wrong that nurses have to turn to food banks to make ends meet.

02 May 2017
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Shift handover

How one hospital increased the amount of time nursing staff spend with patients.

02 May 2017
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Nurse shortages

England could be hit by a shortfall of 42,000 nurses by 2020 and almost half of all nurses are worried about stretched staffing levels, a new report says.

02 May 2017
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A pioneering helpline supporting palliative care patients in their final months is reducing hospital admissions.

02 May 2017
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Asthma film

A respiratory nurse consultant has worked on a two-minute video aimed at encouraging children to use their inhalers properly.

02 May 2017

Charity report calls for urgent action as the vacancy rate in children’s hospice nursing rises.

28 Apr 2017

The government comfortably avoided a symbolic defeat over funding for nursing students in the dying moments of the current Parliament.

28 Apr 2017
MPs say 150,000 workers face an uncertain future
28 Apr 2017

New analysis shows the number of emergency department admissions for people with Multiple Sclerosis (MS) continues to rise, costing the NHS millions.

27 Apr 2017

Results from major study highlight serious consequences of low staffing levels. 

27 Apr 2017

Voting in the Patient's Choice category in the RCNi Nurse Awards 2017 closes at midnight on 28 April.

27 Apr 2017

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