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NMC hearing

Only one in five referrals to fitness to practise proceedings concern patient care.

19 Jul 2017
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smith

Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC) chief executive Jackie Smith received a pay rise

19 Jul 2017
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Postnatal depression

There is an urgent need for mental healthcare funding for&nbs

19 Jul 2017
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Dementia

People who do not have the ability to choose how they are cared for are being 'let down' b

19 Jul 2017
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Ambulance response targets

Unions have cautiously welcomed an overhaul to ambulance responses targ

18 Jul 2017
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nurses smoking
Part of government plans for 'smoke-free generation'
18 Jul 2017
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doctors

The NHS will look overseas to recruit about 2,000 more GPs in orde

18 Jul 2017
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Rose Ann Kiss

Middlesex University helps healthcare assistants to transition to nursing.

18 Jul 2017
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Parking row

Nurses are among Cardiff hospital staff who are ‘devastated’ by decision on parking&n

18 Jul 2017
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Jon Ashworth

The RCN has warned that children's health is in crisis and called for the role of sch

17 Jul 2017
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Assisted dying

Alison Pickard, a nurse with motor neurone disease, has provided evidence to the high cour

17 Jul 2017
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Peter Griffiths

Peter Griffiths calls for 'concrete' arguments to be made.

17 Jul 2017

Patients who ring the ambulance service on 999 could soon be assessed via video-call technology such as Skype if their condition is deemed not life-threatening.

17 Jul 2017

Chancellor of the Exchequer Philip Hammond has been branded ‘out of touch’ and ‘insulting’ by nursing unions amid claims he said public-sector workers are overpaid during a cabinet meeting.

17 Jul 2017

A further trust has added its voice to calls to rethink the language tests required by the Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC) for overseas nurses to work in the UK.

14 Jul 2017

Women can expect to spend nearly one quarter of their lives in poor health and men one fifth, a Public Health England report shows.

14 Jul 2017

Shape of Caring review author Lord Willis says employers need to find ways to attract people to the profession and retain staff.

14 Jul 2017

Working long hours increases the risk of developing a dangerous irregular heartbeat, research has shown.

14 Jul 2017

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