Health visitors in south Wales set to strike after NHS employer ignores job evaluation appeal
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Chief nursing officer for Wales Jean White explains how the Nurse Staffing Levels (Wales) Act responds to changing healthcare needs
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With the support of government ministers, the NMC can reform its legal framework to better reflect the regulator's range of responsibilities, says Janet Finch.
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Implementing recommendations from the National Maternity Review report will improve outcomes and reduce inequalities, says England's chief nursing officer Jane Cummings.
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Let's enjoy and celebrate Team GB's incredible achievements in Rio – but take a moment to acknowledge that nurses are heroes every day, says nursing student Georgina O'Reilly-Foley
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Steve Flatt argues that the NHS needs to ditch the 'therapeutic relationship' for a patient-partnership model.
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The Queen’s Nursing Institute has a proud record of supporting nurse innovators in practice. This time round, it is inviting ideas on how to improve men’s health.
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Jane Bates takes a reckless rest in the silly season.
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RCN Scotland director Theresa Fyffe calls for a radical new approach to how we measure success in our healthcare services.
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Jane Bates rails against the trend to identify patients by their NHS digits.
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Those who blame others for their mistakes should not be allowed to get away with it, says Jane Bates.
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The battle to save the bursary has been lost.
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Agency and permanent staff have a responsibility to ensure high standards when they work together, says Caroline Shuldham.
Focusing only on stabilising financial performance puts patients and nurses at risk, says Susan Osborne
Jane Bates ponders nurses' esoteric lingo.
A High Court decision on the funding of a drug that prevents HIV has been condemned for encouraging hedonistic behaviour by gay men. The row shows that the prejudice of the 1980s lingers on.
Prisons and probation ombudsman says staff need help to manage rapidly growing older population
The ‘head clutcher’ picture of someone with their head in their hands has become yet another cliche , says Ian Hulatt.
They already epitomise the best of local community health services. Now it is time for hospices to seek out those on the fringes of their communities, says Steve Jamieson.
