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Our new AI-powered tool delivers evidence-based answers to clinical and professional nursi

06 Mar 2025
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Timing of insulin doses: patient was incorrectly given insulin after his meals

Hospital nurses’ incorrect administration of insulin to an inpatient with type 1 diabetes

05 Mar 2025
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Diabetes specialist nurse Susan Hamilton claimed a co-worker subjected her to ‘bullying tactics’ while they both worked at St Helier Hospital in south London

Diabetes specialist nurse Susan Hamilton claimed a co-worker subjected her to ‘bullyi

04 Mar 2025
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Infection prevention nurses in plain clothes are undertaking covert audits at University Hospital Southampton NHS Foundation Trust to assess hand hygiene practices

An NHS trust is using undercover nurses for covert hand hygiene audits to improve standard

27 Feb 2025
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Patient death after transfer delay: Royal Stoke University Hospital

Coroner finds that Philip Unwin’s death due to sepsis occurred after medical team’s failur

26 Feb 2025
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A proposed statutory duty of candour would make NHS managers legally accountable for responding to concerns about patient safety

NHS managers have agreed they should be subject to professional regulation to help restore

25 Feb 2025
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Nurse’s dishonesty about CV misled his employer

Nurse who got a job with an NHS community health provider after dishonestly claiming two y

20 Feb 2025
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Higher pay for nurses: nurse gets coat and leaves despite wage rise

Institute for Fiscal Studies research finds higher pay for nurses and other public sector

18 Feb 2025
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ICU nurse strike threat: nurses at Bassetlaw may be redeployed to unit with more complex cases

NHS trust wants to rotate ICU nurses who work at Bassetlaw Hospital so they can gain exper

17 Feb 2025
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A review of nurses shift patterns to ensure better work-life balance and tackle recruitment and retention is underway in Scotland

A review of flexible working for the NHS nursing workforce in Scotland will consider chang

14 Feb 2025
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A job ad raised concerns about nursing associates being used to replace registered nurses at hospital trusts and GP practices

An NHS trust has drawn criticism over a job advert for a nursing associate whose duties wo

13 Feb 2025
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Patient death linked to lack of repositioning: patient in bed is tended to by nurse

Coroner's prevention of future deaths report says Cynthia Gilbert developed pressure

12 Feb 2025

A new bill to protect the ‘nurse’ job title by law has passed its first stage in Parliament

11 Feb 2025

A nurse was struck off from the Nursing and Midwifery register for stealing £103,203 from t

10 Feb 2025

Proposed closure of University of Wolverhampton’s Telford campus, which offers preregistrat

06 Feb 2025

MP Dawn Butler is to introduce a bill that would make it illegal for individuals to ca

05 Feb 2025

The convictions of former nurse Lucy Letby, serving life sentences for the murder and attem

04 Feb 2025

Cardiff University’s highly ranked nursing school could close, raising fears about future n

31 Jan 2025

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