Health visitors in south Wales set to strike after NHS employer ignores job evaluation appeal
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Health Secretary Jeremy Hunt has announced plans to train up to 1,500 more doctors a year in a bid to tackle the recruitment crisis and make NHS England 'self-sufficient' in doctor
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A quick-thinking nurse used a defibrillator to save an older patient's life and then cared for him once he was in hospital.
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Jamaican-born nurse and heroine Mary Seacole, who tended to wounded soldiers in the Crimean War, was celebrated in London at the weekend as part of Black History Month.
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Epilepsy Action Cymru said the number of epilepsy specialist nurses in Wales is inadequate, and has called for their numbers to increase.
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Calls for data to be released to inform improvements in services
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Previously unseen images of nursing through the decades feature in the calendar
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The RCN has launched a new mentorship scheme for up to 100 frontline staff to improve nursing practice.
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Crucial evidence has been submitted to the NHS pay review body about staff salaries.
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Only specialist nurses and lead doctors should speak to distressed families about the donation of their loved-ones’ organs, a seminar has heard.
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The final resting place of a nurse killed during World War Two has been properly marked following a two-year campaign.
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Few people have a legally-binding document to refuse life-sustaining care or to have a person act on their behalf, an RCN conference heard.
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Nurses who work in abortion clinics in the UK are experiencing increasing levels of harassment from anti-abortion protesters, according to a charity which employs them.
1 in 5 carers have taken their loved one to the emergency department (ED) due to failures in GP out-of-hours services and district nursing, figures suggest.
A wartime nurse who was posted in Normandy as the first D-Day soldiers arrived is to be honoured by the French government.
An RCN seminar on end of life issues heard how action was needed to end ‘disinvestment’ in nursing to ensure humane end of life care.
Nearly 1 in 10 (9.5%) of the nurses due to revalidate in July and August failed to renew their registration in July and August.
A nurse is to teach colleagues about the benefits of physical activity as part of a scheme planned to get NHS staff healthy.
Nurses and midwives are calling on the government to end its policy of pay restraint, as their royal colleges today gave evidence to the NHS Pay Review Body, which will make a recommendation on pay.
