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district nurse visits patient

More than half of NHS trusts employing district nurses have seen a fall in their numbers since 2014/15.

18 Nov 2016
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Medicine monitoring side effects
Nurse-led monitoring of medicines taken by people with mental health problems can prevent serious adverse side effects, reveals new research.
17 Nov 2016
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older person

More than a third of home care workers in England have had no training in dementia care – Alzheimer’s Society.

17 Nov 2016
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Amanda Burston
Introducing specialist domestic abuse advisors in hospitals would help nurses to better support victims, a charity says.
17 Nov 2016
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Brian Webster
The Council of Deans of Health, which represents nursing, midwifery and allied health students, has elected a new chair.
17 Nov 2016
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Norman Todd

Nurse Norman Todd’s years of studying and training have led to role as health and safety advisor for oil and gas company

17 Nov 2016
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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.
17 Nov 2016
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mental health crisis
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.
16 Nov 2016
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Santa Forgot advert

Christmas is forgotten by a Santa living with dementia in an advert raising funds for research.

16 Nov 2016
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Cuts to services detrimental to mothers who want to breastfeed
World Breastfeeding Trends Initiative UK report exposes gaps in public health support services for breastfeeding mothers.
16 Nov 2016
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Charity calls for domestic abuse support in every hospital.
Over half of domestic abuse victims visiting hospital had accessed emergency departments a year before getting effective help, research shows.
16 Nov 2016
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Nurses
Reasearch shows one professional nurse substitution associated with a 21% rise in patient death risk.
15 Nov 2016

One in four women eligible for screening did not receive checks last year, new data shows.

15 Nov 2016
A trailblazing group of women who campaigned to create England’s first nursing degree programme have been reunited.
15 Nov 2016
Charity encourages mental health nurses working on acute wards to organise themselves using sport as an example.
15 Nov 2016
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.
14 Nov 2016
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.
14 Nov 2016

A nurse whose career ended after an assault is taking legal action against her former employer.

14 Nov 2016

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