Health visitors in south Wales set to strike after NHS employer ignores job evaluation appeal
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A mother and son who both have epilepsy are petitioning the UK government to fund a ‘new generation’ of epilepsy nurses using money from fines of pharmaceutical companies that over
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Nurses have paid tribute to George Michael for championing the profession – and recalled how he once put on a concert especially for them.
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NHS hospitals are making more money than ever from car park charges, an investigation has found.
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The NHS needs to spend more money looking after people in their own homes rather than in hospital, the Chief Nursing Officer (CNO) for England has urged.
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A nurse who ended a night shift by discovering she’d won £1 million celebrated her early Christmas present with a feast of crumpets.
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Specialist dementia care being withdrawn due to financial pressures.
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RCM has attacked the government for failing to publish the response to its summer consultation on changes to regulation.
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Nurses and emergency staff working over Christmas have seen their pay plummet by up to 9% over the past five years.
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A greater proportion of NHS staff than ever before have been vaccinated against the flu this winter, figures show.
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A charity pancreatic cancer telephone support line run by specialist nurses has received national accreditation.
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Draft guidance for safe staffing in learning disability (LD) services across England has warned of a ‘serious deficit of skills’ in the future.
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Physical assaults on NHS staff rose by 4% last year.
New guidance on achieving safe staffing for adult inpatient wards in acute hospitals in England has stopped short of recommending a minimum number of nurses who should be on duty per shift.
Nursing leaders from across the UK have paid tribute to the ‘hard-working and dedicated’ nurses, midwives and healthcare assistants who will be on duty over the Christmas period.
- Almost 90,000 nurses will be on Christmas Day duty this year, according to health union estimates.
Nurses have been voted the most trustworthy professionals for the fifteenth year in a row in a US poll.
The British Geriatrics Society (BGS) has called on commissioners and providers to follow its new guidance to ensure older patients in care homes receive the highest quality of care possible.
Updated advice covers legal position for nurses and healthcare assistants, as well as how to respond to difficult requests from patients
