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Weight loss nurse

Staff volunteers at Tameside and Glossop Integrated Care NHS Foundation Trust have signed up to the Slimpod system to help them lose weight. 

27 Jul 2017
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course

Doctors’ orders to 'complete the course' for some antibiotics may be wrong, and patients should stop treatment when they feel better, according to an art

27 Jul 2017
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Atorvastatin

More than two million people with kidney disease should be offered statins to help combat their risk of heart attacks and stroke, the National Institute for

27 Jul 2017
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Call from RCN on national day of campaigning
27 Jul 2017
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Dr David Healy

Mental health charity Mind fears BBC documentary about antidepressants and homicidal behaviour could cause unnecessary worry.

26 Jul 2017
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falls

Nurses are training firefighters across Bradford and Airedale to identify people over 65 at risk of falling. 

26 Jul 2017
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CAMHS

Whole regions of England were left without any specialist CAMHS beds on three occasions last year, according to Education Policy Institute report.

26 Jul 2017
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Historic financial penalties owed by care homes who have underpaid their staff for overnight sleep-in shifts are to be waived, the government has an

26 Jul 2017
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Nurses and other NHS staff in Scotland are facing increasing workload pressures due to a government failure to plan its workforce, according to a ne

25 Jul 2017
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Janet Davies
Pay restraint and Brexit to blame for falling numbers and rising vacancies, say unions
25 Jul 2017
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New guidance has been launched to help health visitors support children and families to cope with a traumatic event.

25 Jul 2017
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Baby

Babies born in the UK in 2015 have the 20th-highest life expectancy in the world.

25 Jul 2017

An NHS programme to tackle childhood obesity in Wales has been launched.

24 Jul 2017
David Knowles saved by first aid trainees
24 Jul 2017

A total of 90% of cancer patients were given the name of a clinical nurse specailist according to the National Cancer Patient Experience Survey for England 2016.

24 Jul 2017

NHS staff wellbeing is suffering under the strain of increasing service pressures at the potential cost of patient care, according to a report by the Point of Care Foundation. 

21 Jul 2017

An eye care company is offering £1 million worth of laser eye surgery to nurses and other NHS and emergency services workers.

21 Jul 2017
College to stage Scrap the Cap rally in September
21 Jul 2017

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