Health visitors in south Wales set to strike after NHS employer ignores job evaluation appeal
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Hospitals had to close their doors to ambulances almost twice as often this winter compared with the previous three years, figures show
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The NHS could suffer a nursing shortage of up to 42,000 just six years after Brexit, a leaked government projection claims.
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The decision in 2015 to stop a national evidence review on safe staffing was ‘shocking’ and has had ongoing policy implications, a senior nurse researcher has said.
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A study into the effectiveness of Schwartz Center Rounds on healthcare staff has revealed that the program could increase empathy for patients and
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Nurses with ideas for healthcare projects to improve health outcomes of black and minority ethic communities are being encouraged to apply for funding
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Not all patients and nurses benefit from the system on hospital wards known as intentional rounding in which nurses carry out one hourly rounds to improve car
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Investment will ensure people have equity of access, says a nurse researcher.
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The RCN is to consult nurses on how it should respond to continuing pay restraint – including whether members should consider taking industrial acti
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Nurses’ influence on policy making is under the spotlight at this year’s RCN International Nursing Research Conference, which has begun in Oxford.
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The chief nursing officer for England has defended the delay in transferring £10 million of learning disability funding from services provided in hospitals to those in community
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The new chief nurse at the Royal Marsden NHS Foundation Trust has placed emphasis on an agile workforce to deal with the rapidly changes to cancer care.
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A pharmacology app has been developed at Birmingham City University to support non-medical students with prescribing.
Report showing nurse, midwife and health visitor numbers rose 1.3% in a year are welcomed by RCN Wales.
Ministers should review pay policy for nurses and other NHS staff and the impact it has on workforce morale, peers have urged.
More clinicians should be placed on the NHS 111 helpline after claims that suicidal callers 'put on hold until they hang up'.
Schools should teach children more about mental health, say parents.
More than 200,000 nurses and midwives have completed the new system to check they are fit to practice in its first 12 months.
The number of ambulances attending London police stations has doubled in four years, at the same time as a deepening recruitment crisis for specialist custody nurses.
