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Healthcare assistant performing an ECG on a patient

Calling on HCAs to fill nurse staffing gaps is bad for patients – Unison

20 Apr 2018
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wad of notes

Nursing students whose loans were overpaid will be offered support, says government. It's not enough, says RCN

19 Apr 2018
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University of Hertfordshire

‘No desire to destabilise the workforce,’ says University of Hertfordshire’s head of department for nursing Liz Gormley-Fleming

19 Apr 2018
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A nursing home in Scarborough is trying to attract nurses by offering a car and a holiday in the sun to new recruits

18 Apr 2018
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RCNi Nurse Awards logo
Awards will celebrate the best of nursing
18 Apr 2018
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Support pay deal
UK’s largest public service union endorses deal at this week’s health conference in Brighton
18 Apr 2018
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A lone nurse looking scared

Research shows assaults have risen nearly 10%, with trusts facing financial difficulties most at risk

17 Apr 2018
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A nurse helps an elderly man walking down a corridor

The 70-day challenge aims to get older patients up and about in an effort to speed up their recovery

17 Apr 2018
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Student loans

RCN wants ‘worried and distressed’ healthcare students to receive the financial support they have budgeted for

16 Apr 2018
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Emilia Clarke

TV's mother of dragons is nursing's latest ally in the fight to raise awareness of staff shortages

16 Apr 2018
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Staff demonstrating outside Gloucestershire Royal Hospital against a plan by the NHS in Gloucestershire to set up a subsidiary company to avoid tax

More than £3.2 million has been spent on subsidiary companies that will lead to pay and pension cuts

16 Apr 2018
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CPIS poster

CP-IS system alerts emergency department staff that a child has contact with social services

13 Apr 2018

A mental health hospital has been forced to reduce its number of beds because of ongoing staff shortages

13 Apr 2018

Regulator’s ruling body agrees proposal to overhaul how it deals with complaints about nurses and midwives in a bid to settle disputes quickly and move away from ‘adversarial, cumbersome and distressing’ process

13 Apr 2018

Practice development charity recruiting its next chair

12 Apr 2018

Quality of hospital food should be enforced by legal standards, says Labour health shadow

12 Apr 2018

Rising costs of housing and transport could threaten London’s world-leading hospitals, because nurses cannot afford to live in the capital, according to RCN London

11 Apr 2018

With 2,000 nursing associate students in training, the regulator wants to explain its proposals for the role to staff, patients and the public

11 Apr 2018

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