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Speaking at the Chief Nursing Officer summit, nurse researcher Linda Aiken criticised lack of workforce planning and reliance on nurses from other worldwide countries.

13 Mar 2018
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Wales is making good progress towards fully implementing safe staffing legislation, a conference heard.

12 Mar 2018
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Three Ps toolkit

England chief nursing officer Jane Cummings and Public Health England’s Viv Bennett promoting optimal health via the ‘three Ps’ – Prevention,  Protection

12 Mar 2018
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But staff must give up a day's holiday, reports say
09 Mar 2018
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Stalked

Hundreds of nurses who work alone in the community have been victims of violence, with assaults over as three-year period at 31 trusts including sexual assaul

09 Mar 2018
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Technology should be used to enable nurses to know their shift pattern a year in advance, which would help people working under pressure and cut sickness rate

08 Mar 2018
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Norovirus shuts wards

Almost 75,000 NHS beds in England have been closed due to norovirus over the course of the winter, new analysis of NHS figures suggest

08 Mar 2018
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England's chief nursing officer has called on universities to expand the number of nursing student places offered, as part of her drive to improve nurse

08 Mar 2018
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Chief nursing officer acknowledges nurses’ frustration over funding cuts, but says profession should explore other opportunities for development and training

08 Mar 2018
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Jane Cummings

Jane Cummings used her summit speech to promote a new nursing recruitment campaign

07 Mar 2018
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Depressed nurse

More than one third of NHS staff in England have experienced work-related stress in the past year, according to the largest workforce survey in the world

06 Mar 2018
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London-based nurses say their right to statutory holiday pay was not made clear by NHS Professionals, and now it’s too late to claim

06 Mar 2018

Breastfeeding Friend digital app developed by Start4Life can be activated via Amazon’s Alexa digital assistant device 

05 Mar 2018

Philip Graf, a law graduate who has held key roles in the media and government regulation, will succeed Dame Janet Finch as chair of the Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC), taking over the post in May

02 Mar 2018

Only 1% more health and social care staff in Scotland feel there is sufficient staffing at their workplace compared to three years ago, a survey has found

02 Mar 2018
Nurses are going above and beyond to get to work during the snow storm
02 Mar 2018

Guidelines for suicide prevention have been set out in an attempt to reduce the number of people taking their lives in public spaces and prisons

02 Mar 2018

RCN gives evidence to the Health and Social Care Committee stating that one quarter of nurses had not engaged with the sustainability and transformation partnerships process

01 Mar 2018

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