Health visitors in south Wales set to strike after NHS employer ignores job evaluation appeal
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More than half of NHS trusts employing district nurses have seen a fall in their numbers since 2014/15.
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Nurse-led monitoring of medicines taken by people with mental health problems can prevent serious adverse side effects, reveals new research.
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More than a third of home care workers in England have had no training in dementia care – Alzheimer’s Society.
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Introducing specialist domestic abuse advisors in hospitals would help nurses to better support victims, a charity says.
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The Council of Deans of Health, which represents nursing, midwifery and allied health students, has elected a new chair.
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Nurse Norman Todd’s years of studying and training have led to role as health and safety advisor for oil and gas company
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Sian Thomas won the prestigious RCN Wales nurse of the year award for ensuring a child with complex needs could be educated in a mainstream school.
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Mind chief executive Paul Farmer said the government and the Welsh Assembly should ban the use of police cells as places of safety for people in mental health crisis.
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Christmas is forgotten by a Santa living with dementia in an advert raising funds for research.
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World Breastfeeding Trends Initiative UK report exposes gaps in public health support services for breastfeeding mothers.
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Over half of domestic abuse victims visiting hospital had accessed emergency departments a year before getting effective help, research shows.
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Reasearch shows one professional nurse substitution associated with a 21% rise in patient death risk.
One in four women eligible for screening did not receive checks last year, new data shows.
A trailblazing group of women who campaigned to create England’s first nursing degree programme have been reunited.
Charity encourages mental health nurses working on acute wards to organise themselves using sport as an example.
A nurse who helped fight ebola has appeared before the Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC) accused of recording an inaccurate temperature for colleague Pauline Cafferkey.
Plans being developed for the future of health and social care services in England, are being drawn up with almost no public or patient involvement, and will be extremely difficult to implement according to an analysis by a leading think tank.
A nurse whose career ended after an assault is taking legal action against her former employer.
