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Pre-natal tests

A safer test for Down's syndrome, reducing the risk of miscarriage during the testing process, is to be made available in Wales.

22 Aug 2017
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Wendy Kay

The teenage Cancer Trust is launching its nursing and support service across Scotland to deliver specialist age-appropriate care to every young person with cancer, no matter whe

22 Aug 2017
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Struggling GP trainees are to be offered targeted support under proposals confirmed by Health Education England (HEE).

22 Aug 2017
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A woman who creates fake wounds, scars and burns to help nursing students prepare for the real thing has been recognised as a scientist by the Association for Sim

22 Aug 2017
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Councils need to ensure that older and disabled people have enough time to cross the road when using pedestrian crossings, says the National Institute for Hea

22 Aug 2017
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There has been a 'worrying' increase in the reliance on emergency care for patients with dementia nearing the end of their lives, experts have warned.

22 Aug 2017
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Body Fixers

A television makeover crew has helped a nursing student look ‘more professional’ by taming his wild punk rocker image.

21 Aug 2017
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Rail fare hike
Unison says nurses who commute could quit
21 Aug 2017
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Charity Learning Disability England has elected a new representative body of people with learning disabilities.

21 Aug 2017
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Breast cancer care

Nearly half of women diagnosed with breast cancer say they were not told how to access proper support once their treatment was over.

21 Aug 2017
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Health secretary Jeremy Hunt has launched a fresh attack on Stephen Hawking for suggesting the 'direction of change in the NHS is towards a United States

21 Aug 2017
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College aim to make every nurse an e-nurse by 2020
21 Aug 2017

More than 9,000 patients were treated on mixed-sex NHS wards in the 12 months to the end of July, figures show.

18 Aug 2017

A Spanish nurse has described how he fought to save the life of a little boy who was involved in the terror attack in Barcelona.

18 Aug 2017
Jane Cummings to take charge of NHS England's London region
18 Aug 2017

Health campaigners say the government must try harder to curb the 'devastating all-time high' of childhood obesity figures, a year after it launched a landmark plan to tackle the crisis.

18 Aug 2017

Extra nursing training places promised by the government have been made available for students receiving their A-level results today.

17 Aug 2017

A new nurse-led online resource aims to equip nurses with the skills to speed up the diagnosis of endometriosis – and discover if they are suffering from the condition themselves.

17 Aug 2017

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