Health visitors in south Wales set to strike after NHS employer ignores job evaluation appeal
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Scheme aims to reduce 20-year mortality gap between this patient group and the rest of the population.
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New data has revealed NHS England is performing at its worst ever levels against a host of targets for emergency departments, cancer care and patients waiting on trolleys.
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Members of Irish Nurses and Midwives Organisation have voted in favour of action due to start next month.
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Union says it expects sixth annual survey on nurse-to-patient ratios, overtime and breaks to reveal the strain staff and hospitals are under
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Staff at a hospital admitted patients to a ‘virtual ward’ to avoid breaching the four-hour emergency department target, a whistleblower has claimed.
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Accident and emergency patients in England have experienced the worst month of delays since the four-hour target was introduced 13 years ago, a leaked document suggest
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University College London Hospital staff team up with film company to produce animation for parents with cancer.
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London hospice embraces return-to-practice scheme to solve recruitment problem.
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Plans to integrate health and social care services by 2020 have been slower and less successful than envisaged, a report finds.
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Colleges in England report a rising number of students experiencing mental health issues.
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Emergency departments in Scotland experienced their busiest December for four years.
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Report warns that in England the number of midwives leaving due to retirement or lack of flexible working is offsetting recruitment
Leicester’s Hospitals’ new sepsis team will work in emergency department and combines healthcare professionals from intensive and critical care, emergency and theatre
The number of unexpected patient deaths in mental health trusts has risen by almost 50% in three years, data reveals.
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NHS trusts will be legally obliged from April to check if overseas patients are eligible for free care – but unions fear it will further stretch an already buckling health service and risks ‘demonising’ patients.
Details of funding for students starting nursing and midwifery courses in 2016-17 have been outlined. The briefing paper also details the ongoing plan to abolish the NHS bursary from September.
An award-winning nurse who died after setting himself on fire outside Kensington Palace suffered a ‘mental breakdown’ over how his NHS employers handled his dismissal, an inquest has heard.
