Health visitors in south Wales set to strike after NHS employer ignores job evaluation appeal
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The health secretary vowed to tackle agency spend. Nursing Standard readers have their say
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Readers comment on calls for front-line staff who do not have the flu jab to be redeployed
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Nurse Isabel Amaro received little support from her profession, unlike her colleague, doctor Hadiza Bawa-Garba
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RCN mental health forum chair Ed Freshwater says bullying is not taken seriously enough
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Nursing Standard readers have their say on what Matt Hancock should focus on
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Nursing Standard readers have their say on the planned £20.5 billion-a-year boost
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Elements of the Health and Social Care Act may be scrapped as part of a multi-year NHS funding plan
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Cardiac arrest is a traumatic event - our readers have their say on family-witnessed resuscitation
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Nurses in England have been offered minimum pay rises of 6.5% if they accept a new three-year pay deal which has been agreed by unions, employers and the government.
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Health and social care secretary Jeremy Hunt says nurses and doctors are terrified that if they are open about medication mistakes they could b
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This will be a matter for discussion at RCN congress in May.
The Department of Health and Social Care has confirmed that bursaries for preregistration postgraduate nursing students will end this summer, mirroring the existing situation for undergraduates. Nursing Standard readers have their say.
Public Health England has recommended that manufacturers license e-cigarettes as medical aids to quitting smoking, which would enable GPs to prescribe them to patients. Nursing Standard readers have their say
The chief executive of Papyrus, a charity dedicated to preventing suicide by young people, has written to the head of every NHS trust in England urging them to back employees who share information about a patient to keep them safe from suicide.
NHS England guidelines recommend that health professionals ask all patients about their sexual orientation, with the aim of improving services for lesbian, gay, bisexual and trans (LGBT) patients. Nursing Standard readers have their say
Nursing is a stressful profession and nurses are used to showing resilience. But with staff shortages, lack of resources and increasingly heavy workloads, the pressures can be overwhelming. Nursing Standard readers have their say
A report from the Centre for Policy Studies – A Royal Commission on the NHS: The Remit –argues that the ‘ever-increasing demands of the health service cannot be met from general taxation without bankrupting the state’. Nursing Standard readers have their say
