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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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Mental health ward where four people died exceeded the recommended maximum number of beds

07 Feb 2018
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Nurses and doctors have warned that asylum seeker and refugee fears about NHS data sharing might be stopping them receiving essential healthcare

06 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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Belfast hospital

Inquiry chair says services had been ‘largely self-regulating and unmonitored’.

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

05 Feb 2018

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

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

The charity Papyrus wants the NMC to educate trainee nurses on how to ask patients questions about suicide

02 Feb 2018

The Offload project delivers mental health messages through rugby league to reach men from deprived areas

02 Feb 2018

A campaign to be launched by Public Health England this autumn will focus on giving people resilience and coping skills to prevent mental health issue

02 Feb 2018

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