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HALT launch

Campaign encourages staff to take frequent breaks and improve their health and well-being.

20 Mar 2017
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Home care

Ninety-five councils have had contracts cancelled by private care companies, a BBC investigation has found.

20 Mar 2017
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'Quit'

More than half of nurses (52%) are considering quitting the NHS as work pressures continue to ratchet, an exclusive survey by Nursing Standard and the Sunday Mirror ha

19 Mar 2017
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One third of young people say they lack confidence in asking their schools for support when feeling worried or concerned, a mental health survey has revealed.

17 Mar 2017
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UK's only nursing professor of stroke care made a dame. 

17 Mar 2017
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The RCN has backed a call for suicide awareness training to be made mandatory for all health professionals.

17 Mar 2017
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In a poll of 2,000 NHS workers 92% thought low morale caused problems with staff retention.

17 Mar 2017
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Suicidal nurses

Nurses have an higher risk of suicide according to an analysis by the Office for National Statistics (ONS).

17 Mar 2017
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Jean White

A charity offering nurses career development funding and hardship grants has been set up in Wales.

17 Mar 2017
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Frazzled cafe

Marks and Spencer is to host mental well-being chat sessions in 11 stores as part of a project fronted by comedian and mental health campaigner Ruby Wax.

16 Mar 2017
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Busy doctors

Royal College of Physicians report reveals pressure on NHS and its impact on patient care.

16 Mar 2017
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A new academic course is hoping to increase nurse-led research, improve front-line practice and reduce staff burnout.

16 Mar 2017

The National Garden Scheme is sponsoring a bursary fund to allow Marie Curie nurses to undertake specialist palliative and end of life care qualifications

16 Mar 2017

Health secretary Jeremy Hunt says he 'dearly' wants to increase nurse pay – but is restricted by limited resources and other pressures on the NHS.

15 Mar 2017

Scaling the heights of healthcare with blindness prevention charity Orbis’s Flying Eye Hospital.

15 Mar 2017

A ten point plan for general practice nursing will be published by NHS England, Jane Cummings revealed at her Chief Nursing Officer summit in Birmingham.

15 Mar 2017

Advanced and specialist nurses have the potential to improve 'unacceptable variations' in older people's experiences of GP services, report says.

15 Mar 2017

Nursing associates should not replace registered nurses, NHS England chief executive states.

15 Mar 2017

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