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Anne Smith

London hospice embraces return-to-practice scheme to solve recruitment problem.

08 Feb 2017
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Plans to integrate health and social care services by 2020 have been sl

08 Feb 2017
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Depressed student

Colleges in England report a rising number of students experiencing mental health issues.

07 Feb 2017
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Shona Robison

Emergency departments in Scotland experienced their busiest December for four years.

07 Feb 2017
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Midwifery retention

Report warns that in England the number of midwives leaving due to retirement or lack of f

07 Feb 2017
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Sepsis team

Leicester’s Hospitals’ new sepsis team will work in emergency department and combines&nbsp

07 Feb 2017
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The number of unexpected patient deaths in mental health trusts has risen by almost 50% in

07 Feb 2017
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Nursing Standard and Marie Curie want to hear from you
06 Feb 2017
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Charge overseas patients

NHS trusts will be legally obliged from April to check if overseas pati

06 Feb 2017
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Details of funding for students starting nursing and midwifery courses

06 Feb 2017
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An award-winning nurse who died after setting himself on fire outside Kensington Palace su

06 Feb 2017
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Leadership mentoring

A mentoring scheme, which reverses the roles of mentor and mentee, could help increas

06 Feb 2017

Extra Fitness to Practise (FtP) hearings are being held over the next three months to clear the Nursing and Midwifery Council's (NMC) outstanding caseload, but will cost the nursing regulator £1.5 million in overspend.

06 Feb 2017

A national audit found 43% of patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease patients are readmitted to hospital at least once within 90 days of discharge, compared to 33% in 2008 

06 Feb 2017

RCN analysis figures show nurses with RCN representation are more likely to have no sanction brought against them at Nursing and Midwifery Council fitness to practise hearings than those without representation.

03 Feb 2017

Figures released by Cancer Research UK have highlighted potentially bad lifestyle factors causing rising cancer rates in women.

03 Feb 2017

Nurses and academics in the UK and Jamaica could soon be changing places under the terms of an innovative faculty exchange and rotation programme.

03 Feb 2017

Patron’s Fund grant will be used to host a day of celebration for working and retired Queen’s nurses at Frogmore in Windsor

03 Feb 2017

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