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Mental health nursing should retain its specialty undergraduate course, an independent workforce review has found.

28 Feb 2017
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Jane Cummings
England's chief nurse to embark on new project
27 Feb 2017
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Birmingham Children's Hospital

Delegates have opportunity to join organisation that has received an outstanding Care Quality Commission rating.

27 Feb 2017
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More than one in 10 people who sought support from a nurse hardship charity in the past year are struggling financially after a cancer diagnosis.

27 Feb 2017
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Violence

The RCN has backed calls for tougher sanctions on those who assault clinical staff.

27 Feb 2017
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Sandwell and West Birmingham Hospitals NHS Trust has appointed Elaine Newell as its chief nurse.

24 Feb 2017
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Essay mills

Government proposes new guidance for universities and penalties for students who use essay mills to buy coursework.

24 Feb 2017
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Dame Elizabeth Anionwu honoured by the Queen at Buckingham Palace

24 Feb 2017
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Staffing app

An app which allows nurses to see staff numbers per hospital ward in real time is about to have a smartphone upgrade.

23 Feb 2017
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Peter Griffiths

Leading nurse academic’s warning over new nursing associate role.

23 Feb 2017
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Six clinical nurse specialists in south west Wales have a key role in improving acute oncology services, an NHS report highlights.

23 Feb 2017
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NHS Improvement has published a resource to help reduce the number of babies admitted to neonatal units. 

23 Feb 2017

Office for National Statistics says the number of new cases in England is equivalent to 822 a day

23 Feb 2017

Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn uses Commons questions to highlight findings of Nursing Standard Marie Curie joint end of life care survey.

22 Feb 2017

The RCN has joined a raft of healthcare organisations who have re-emphasised the importance of childhood vaccinations.

22 Feb 2017

The NHS’s non-emergency line is sending a rising proportion of patients for emergency care, new analysis shows.

22 Feb 2017

Two thirds (67%) of nurses think they have too little time to provide high quality care to dying patients, a Nursing Standard and Marie Curie survey has revealed.

22 Feb 2017

The Royal College of Midwives has called for increased investment in maternal mental health services in response to a survey of more than 2,300 mothers

21 Feb 2017

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