Health visitors in south Wales set to strike after NHS employer ignores job evaluation appeal
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A vaccine for gonorrhoea offers hope in the fight against drug-resistant sexually transmitted infections, a study has found.
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Report by MPs and peers says the NHS should use ‘arts-on-prescription’ programmes in an effort to improve patients’ health and well-being.
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Organisations looking after people who have learning disabilities could collapse due to a £400 million bill for back pay for carers, the chair of Me
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Only one in five referrals to fitness to practise proceedings concern patient care.
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Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC) chief executive Jackie Smith received a pay rise of almost £20,000 in the past year, according to the regulator’s annual report.
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There is an urgent need for mental healthcare funding for expectant and new mothers, say leading midwives.
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People who do not have the ability to choose how they are cared for are being 'let down' by the very institutions charged with their care, an ombudsman has warned.
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The NHS will look overseas to recruit about 2,000 more GPs in order to meet its staff targets, the head of NHS England has said.
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Middlesex University helps healthcare assistants to transition to nursing.
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The RCN has warned that children's health is in crisis and called for the role of school nurses to be championed.
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Alison Pickard, a nurse with motor neurone disease, has provided evidence to the high court in support of assisted dying.
Chancellor of the Exchequer Philip Hammond has been branded ‘out of touch’ and ‘insulting’ by nursing unions amid claims he said public-sector workers are overpaid during a cabinet meeting.
A further trust has added its voice to calls to rethink the language tests required by the Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC) for overseas nurses to work in the UK.
Women can expect to spend nearly one quarter of their lives in poor health and men one fifth, a Public Health England report shows.
Shape of Caring review author Lord Willis says employers need to find ways to attract people to the profession and retain staff.
Working long hours increases the risk of developing a dangerous irregular heartbeat, research has shown.
The government is pledging an extra £21 million for cyber security across the NHS in the wake of the WannaCry ransomware attack.
