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Social care

The National Audit Office report into the adult social care workforce in England says workers feel insufficiently appreciated and there are limited oppor

08 Feb 2018
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Flu vaccine

NHS England and Public Health England outline newly licenced ‘adjuvanted trivalent’ vaccine to improve the effectiveness of the influenza vaccination in

07 Feb 2018
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NMC_Fees

Council should reduce registration fees not increase its members’ allowances, say unions

06 Feb 2018
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Talking therapies

Nine out of ten health providers keep no record of the length of time people experiencing serious mental health problems must wait before accessing psychological therapies,

06 Feb 2018
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Public Health England has said hospitals should sell e-cigarettes to patients and GPs could prescribe the devices, in the future

06 Feb 2018
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QNI resource

The complexity of care home nursing has been outlined and championed in a new resource pack which aims to encourage more nurses to consider the role.

05 Feb 2018
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Nurses asked to describe how they use technology in their practice, and how ditigal skills could be used in nursing in the future

05 Feb 2018
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NHS rally

Protesters took to the streets of London and other parts of the UK on Saturday 3 February to demand better funding for the NHS.

05 Feb 2018
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Charges paid by temporary migrants to use the NHS are to double, a move the government says will raise around £220 million a year for the health ser

05 Feb 2018
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Number of applicants for nursing student courses has fallen for a fourth year running

05 Feb 2018
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Attrition

See our infographic demonstrating how the number of nursing degree applicants has fallen across most of the UK since the loss of the student bursary in 2017

05 Feb 2018
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Demo

RCN president Cecilia Akrisie Anim calls for urgent action to address the staffing crisis.

03 Feb 2018

The awards support ‘outstanding work to improve leadership skills and health outcomes’

02 Feb 2018

A pay rise for the Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC) chair Dame Janet Finch and members has been unanimously approved.

02 Feb 2018

Nursing Standard readers have responded to the Commons health committee report on the nursing workforce.

01 Feb 2018
Plans to replace nursing student mentors wins support
01 Feb 2018

Two in three nurses responding to a survey last year felt they had too little time to provide high quality care to dying patients. Nursing Standard and Marie Curie are now holding a second survey to see if this has changed a year on

31 Jan 2018

NHS staff will be given first refusal to buy thousands of affordable homes to be built on unused or surplus NHS land across England, with the money generated by the sales to be pumped back into healthcare services

31 Jan 2018

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