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Healthcare assistant performing an ECG on a patient

Calling on HCAs to fill nurse staffing gaps is bad for patients – Unison

20 Apr 2018
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RCNi Nurse Awards logo
Awards will celebrate the best of nursing
18 Apr 2018
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Support pay deal
UK’s largest public service union endorses deal at this week’s health conference in&nbsp
18 Apr 2018
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A lone nurse looking scared

Research shows assaults have risen nearly 10%, with trusts facing finan

17 Apr 2018
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A nurse helps an elderly man walking down a corridor

The 70-day challenge aims to get older patients up and about in an effo

17 Apr 2018
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Student loans

RCN wants ‘worried and distressed’ healthcare students to receive the f

16 Apr 2018
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Emilia Clarke

TV's mother of dragons is nursing's latest ally in the fight to raise awareness of st

16 Apr 2018
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Staff demonstrating outside Gloucestershire Royal Hospital against a plan by the NHS in Gloucestershire to set up a subsidiary company to avoid tax

More than £3.2 million has been spent on subsidiary companies that will

16 Apr 2018
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CPIS poster

CP-IS system alerts emergency department staff that a child has contact with social s

13 Apr 2018
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Fitness to practise hearings

Regulator’s ruling body agrees proposal to overhaul how it deals with c

13 Apr 2018
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FoNS logo

Practice development charity recruiting its next chair

12 Apr 2018
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hospital meal tray

Quality of hospital food should be enforced by legal standards, says Labour health shadow

12 Apr 2018

The NHS in England has purchased more than half a billion disposable cups over the past five years, new figures show

11 Apr 2018

Nurses and other hospital staff are expected to pay for parking at 348 out of the 1,175 hospitals, says motoring research charity RAC Foundation 

09 Apr 2018

RCN says one third fewer nursing student applicants in England since tuition fees replaced the bursary in 2016

05 Apr 2018

Resilience, changing nursing roles and financial challenges will be discussed at an international conference of nurse academics

04 Apr 2018

More than one third of NHS trusts have failed to sign up to a scheme to cut sales of sugary drinks in hospitals, new figures show

04 Apr 2018

Midwives can help keep people who have experienced domestic abuse safe by ensuring they remain anonymous on the electoral roll  

03 Apr 2018

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