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Yellow safety signs reads: 'Danger – Asbestos removal in progress
  • RCN calls for urgent investment in NHS hospital buildings
09 Dec 2019
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illustration of norovirus

Winter vomiting bug causes spike in NHS bed closures as hospitals work to contain its

06 Dec 2019
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A group of overseas-trained nurses at Salford Royal NHS Trust in 2019

Nuffield Trust says figures highlight reliance on health and social care staff born outsid

04 Dec 2019
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Nurses sit in a staff room chatting over coffee

RCN members work to rule, but their protest is scheduled to escalate to full str

03 Dec 2019
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Illustration of figures in a group where two are a different colour

Text from forthcoming NHS People Plan reveals strategy to rec

03 Dec 2019
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UCAS website

UCAS figures show rise since last year, but college calls for more

28 Nov 2019
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Boris Johnson sits around a table talking to nurses at West Cornwall Hospital

Staff at West Cornwall Hospital grill prime minister on financial hardship and nurse

28 Nov 2019
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Illustration of a nurse writing on a staff rota board, with healthcare assistant and nurse numbers recorded

Health Foundation says HCAs and nursing associates are filling recruitm

28 Nov 2019
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Ilustration of the book cover of the Trouble with Poo for people with learning disabilities and autism

Latest Beyond Words book looks at the importance of healthy bowels for people with learnin

28 Nov 2019
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Nurses looking for a job

RCN employment survey finds pressures and lack of management support are often to blame

28 Nov 2019
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Illustration showing a clockface with a person resting on one of the hands. Gloucestershire Hospitals NHS Foundation supports nurses napping on breaks during long shifts as a safeguarding principle.

Trust encourages nurses to treat breaks as critical rest time, particularly on n

26 Nov 2019
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Prime minister Boris Johnson speaks at a podium, holding aloft the Conservatives' 2019 election manifesto

Conservatives have resisted calls to reinstate the nursing student bursary in England

25 Nov 2019

Brittany McArthur recognised by university for demonstrating compas

25 Nov 2019

Regulator plans to abolish time limit on nursing and midwifery qualifications taken in Engl

21 Nov 2019

West London NHS Trust admits nurse sustained back injury due to defective ch

20 Nov 2019

Parties’ parliamentary candidates compete for nurses’ votes ahead of 2019 general elec

20 Nov 2019

Fellow university students and local nursing staff offer support af

19 Nov 2019

Parties must clarify use of actors if the audience could be ‘misled’ by their appearance

15 Nov 2019

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