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Children and young people need to be taught to wash their hands properly in a bid to

25 Jan 2017
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The Nursing and Midwifery Council has set out the benefits and risks of regulating nursing

20 Jan 2017
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Safe staffing

Hospitals are running wards with a dangerously low number of nurses and are using healthca

20 Jan 2017
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passport for hospitals
Researchers at NHS Education for Scotland have found the Hospital Passport scheme helps child
20 Jan 2017
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Shrinking pay

Trades Union Congress analysis of public sector pay restraint reveals bleak picture f

19 Jan 2017
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Overworked nurse

Some nurses working up to 12 hours without a break, food, or even a glass of wat

19 Jan 2017
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A nurse academic with a family experience of suicide has called for all nurses to undergo awa
18 Jan 2017
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NHS Pay debate
A parliamentary debate on scrapping NHS pay caps will take place at the end of this month and
18 Jan 2017
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Croydon University Hospital

RCN warns winter pressures are posing ‘major risks’ across the whole NHS system, but

17 Jan 2017
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Houses of Parliament
Petition tops 100k signatures after nurses lose 14% in real terms
17 Jan 2017
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Nurse Esther Bennington

The charity Wellchild has appointed its first parent trainer nurse to h

16 Jan 2017
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A&E_Newman

A toddler with suspected meningitis lay for several hours on a makeshift bed mad

13 Jan 2017

Cathy Warwick will retire as head of the Royal College of Midwives in August.

13 Jan 2017

Fundamental changes to the NMC’s legal framework could speed up fitness to practise cases.

12 Jan 2017

The Unite union opposed plans to cut posts

12 Jan 2017
First-time mothers are receiving boxes full of essential items for their babies, which can even serve as their first bed once empty.
11 Jan 2017

Research projection shows shortfall of thousands of nurses in the UK.

11 Jan 2017

Asian and black healthcare staff are significantly less likely to whistleblow than their white British colleagues, research shows.

11 Jan 2017

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