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Fathers are being left out of involvement in their children’s healthcare with potentially devastating consequences, international nursing experts will hear today.

23 Nov 2016
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Health officials are examining whether patients should have to show proof of identity to receive some forms of NHS care.

22 Nov 2016
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Health visitor cuts
Nottinghamshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust is making cuts from its health visitor workforce because it will receive less money to provide public health services in the next fo
22 Nov 2016
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record numbers

A record number of front-line NHS staff including nurses have received flu vaccinations this year.

22 Nov 2016
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palliative care
A report from Together for Short Lives and Hospice UK reveals huge reductions in local authority funding.
22 Nov 2016
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Nursing associates will only be able to administer medicines if suitably trained and competent, in settings where it is deemed appropriate, and will be guided by employer medici

18 Nov 2016
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district nurse visits patient

More than half of NHS trusts employing district nurses have seen a fall in their numbers since 2014/15.

18 Nov 2016
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older person

More than a third of home care workers in England have had no training in dementia care – Alzheimer’s Society.

17 Nov 2016
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Sian Thomas won the prestigious RCN Wales nurse of the year award for ensuring a child with complex needs could be educated in a mainstream school.
17 Nov 2016
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Santa Forgot advert

Christmas is forgotten by a Santa living with dementia in an advert raising funds for research.

16 Nov 2016
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Cuts to services detrimental to mothers who want to breastfeed
World Breastfeeding Trends Initiative UK report exposes gaps in public health support services for breastfeeding mothers.
16 Nov 2016
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Charity calls for domestic abuse support in every hospital.
Over half of domestic abuse victims visiting hospital had accessed emergency departments a year before getting effective help, research shows.
16 Nov 2016
Reasearch shows one professional nurse substitution associated with a 21% rise in patient death risk.
15 Nov 2016

One in four women eligible for screening did not receive checks last year, new data shows.

15 Nov 2016
A trailblazing group of women who campaigned to create England’s first nursing degree programme have been reunited.
15 Nov 2016

College criticises response to a petition against the 1% pay cap on NHS staff.

14 Nov 2016
A Nursing Standard investigation reveals thousands of UK nursing students have been involved in cases of academic misconduct such as: plagiarism, forging signatures and cheating in exams.
11 Nov 2016

Judges rule NHS England does have power to provide HIV prevention strategy.

11 Nov 2016

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