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Three nurses share their diaries from a typical shift
09 Mar 2017
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Graduating nurses in the UK will be given limited prescribing powers, according to the Nur

02 Mar 2017
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Almost half of hospitals in England are not meeting mandatory food and drink standard

23 Feb 2017
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More than four out of ten nurses and healthcare assistants (HCAs) have received no tr

22 Feb 2017
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​In the face of reductions in applications for nursing degree programmes, universities in

08 Feb 2017
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Nurses struggling to pay heating bills, turning to costly pay day loans and pawning their

01 Feb 2017
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Report reveals examples of poor care for older people with HIV

25 Jan 2017
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Cost evaluation of products

A team of nursing professionals is helping to lower NHS costs and enhance servic

18 Jan 2017
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Healthcare experts have agreed the NHS is in a state of crisis, and are demandin

12 Jan 2017
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The overall bill for compensation payments and legal costs for NHS staff injuries last yea

05 Jan 2017
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new year for nursing

Nursing degree apprentices, and nursing associates, will change the landscape of the profe

28 Dec 2016
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Stephanie Jones-Berry looks back on a year of challenges and triumphs for nurses

06 Dec 2016

Disproportionate numbers of nurses from black and minority ethnic (BME) backgrounds are referred to fitness to practise proceedings, according to new data from the Nursing and Midwifery Council.

01 Dec 2016

An independent inquiry into child sexual abuse is looking to nurses for support in bringing forward survivors.

23 Nov 2016

Health Education England has been told to reduce drop-out rates by 50%.

16 Nov 2016

Nursing Standard investigations find cheating a growing concern and dozens of websites offering ‘original’ coursework for sale. 

10 Nov 2016
Plans to speed up the lengthy process for fitness to practise (FtP) hearings and reduce the number of cases that go to a full hearing are currently being discussed by the Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC).
03 Nov 2016
The annual drive urging nurses and other healthcare staff to have their free flu vaccination is underway, following a fall in numbers last year.
26 Oct 2016

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