Health visitors in south Wales set to strike after NHS employer ignores job evaluation appeal
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Nationals from the European Union (EU) living in the UK should be given the right to permanent residence, urges the report of an independent think-tank published this week.
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The biggest hospital in Europe has been ordered to improve security, after inspectors found that mothers ‘might leave the unit with the wrong baby’.
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A mother who beat breast cancer twice and set up a charity to help others in a similar position has graduated as a midwife.
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A nurse who gave a patient who later died the wrong type of blood has been convicted of unlawful killing by gross negligence.
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Smoking among adults is continuing to fall but obesity and alcohol consumption is still at ‘worrying’ levels according to the Health Survey for England.
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A poster exploring how children’s nursing students are supported during community placements has won a prize.
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A new tool has been developed to help nurses on emergency wards identify quicker the signs of acute limb compartment syndrome (ALCS).
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Former nursing leader Dame Sheila Quinn, who worked tirelessly to promote the profession, has died at the age of 96.
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Patient safety could be at risk if nursing students cheat by passing off as their own work essays bought online, a higher education watchdog has warned.
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‘Exhausted’ nurses at a Scottish health board are putting patient safety at risk, says a campaign group.
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Read our guidance to a resource from the Royal College of Physicians on preventing falls in hospital.
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The Nursing and Midwifery Council has received its best review to date from the organisation which oversees how successful it is at regulating the 692,550 registrants on its boo
A new review has found ‘system-wide’ problems in the way the NHS investigates patient deaths, with family members often left in the dark about failures in care.
Updated guidance on infusion therapy has been published by the RCN.
A nurse who offered to pray for patients waiting for surgery has been sacked from her job for gross misconduct.
Health secretary Jeremy Hunt says sending vulnerable people hundreds of miles away for residential treatment is ‘clearly unacceptable’
The RCN says existing registered nurses will face increased pressure due to the volume of placements needed for new training programmes.
New guidelines help healthcare staff to navigate end of life care planning for children and young people.
