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111 phone line

The NHS’s non-emergency line is sending a rising proportion of patients for emergency

22 Feb 2017
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Involving nurses in new controversial plans to reform England

21 Feb 2017
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Joan Pons Laplana

Nurses, social workers and teaching assistants will be among European Union (EU) work

20 Feb 2017
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A nurse has called on health professionals to boycott a new requirement to check pati

17 Feb 2017
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A television documentary which laid bare the reality of working for one of the busiest tru

16 Feb 2017
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Nurses who smoke should lead by example and quit to help the wider

15 Feb 2017
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Tom Sandford

Plans to transform the NHS in England could lead to cuts in hospital beds and community se

14 Feb 2017
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Jobs fair

More than 700 nurses attended the RCN Bulletin Jobs Fair at Manchester United’s Old T

13 Feb 2017
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Robert Francis

Health service only functions because of ‘superhuman’ efforts of staff, says Mid Staffs&nb

13 Feb 2017
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Palliative

A free online resource will help nurses and others without expertise to provide palliative

13 Feb 2017
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Aggression against staff

Nursing leaders are ‘very concerned’ over what will happen to body that advises on NHS sta

10 Feb 2017
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09 Feb 2017

New data has revealed NHS England is performing at its worst ever levels against a host of targets for emergency departments, cancer care and patients waiting on trolleys.

09 Feb 2017

Staff at a hospital admitted patients to a ‘virtual ward’ to avoid breaching the four-hour emergency department target, a whistleblower has claimed.

09 Feb 2017

Accident and emergency patients in England have experienced the worst month of delays since the four-hour target was introduced 13 years ago, a leaked document suggests.

09 Feb 2017

Colleges in England report a rising number of students experiencing mental health issues. The finding has led to calls for more specialist support for young people in crisis.

07 Feb 2017

Emergency departments in Scotland experienced their busiest December for four years.

07 Feb 2017

Leicester’s Hospitals’ new sepsis team will work in emergency department and combines healthcare professionals from intensive and critical care, emergency and theatre

07 Feb 2017

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