A man living with cancer died after being given multiple overdoses of morphine
Analysis
In just over five months, nurses and midwives
Healthcare unions have given a cautious welcom
A report criticising care home staff who call
More research is needed to assess long-term da
Giving patients a greater say in decisions abo
A staggering 205,289 written complaints were m
Improving patient safety has been the stated a
More than 60% of nursing directors in England
It is hard to believe RCN’s new general secret
End of life care has been under scrutiny for t
The issue of shift lengths and patterns is a h
Over the past year the Nursing and Midwifery C
Chancellor George Osborne’s announcement of a public sector pay cap until 2020 will have left nurses worried about how to make their salaries stretch even further than they do already.
Nurses in Greece are facing pay cuts of 40% and have seen health budgets squeezed so tight that supplies of medication and medical equipment are running low.
A change in immigration rules that will force thousands of overseas nurses to leave the UK could be particularly devastating for employers in the private sector.
Nurses have been calling for new guidance on caring for patients in the final days of life since the much-criticised Liverpool Care Pathway (LCP) was withdrawn in 2013.
More than five million people in the UK have asthma and three people die every day because of the condition – yet 90% of these deaths might be avoidable.
England’s health service is grappling with an ageing population coupled with a desire for people to live well for longer.
