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Asthma

Mepolizumab could assist people who have few treatment options available.

02 Dec 2016
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Prison nursing

RCN Scotland study shows a rise in sickness absence reported by staff.

01 Dec 2016
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Almost one third of Britons think you can catch HIV by sharing a toothbrush with someone who
01 Dec 2016
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Dame Jessica Corner
Planned nursing degree apprenticeships will be ‘a drop in the ocean’ and will not solve the n
01 Dec 2016
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Lisa_Bayliss-Pratt

The second wave of sites for training the next cohort of nursing associates has been annou

30 Nov 2016
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Jeremy hunt

Health secretary Jeremy Hunt has unveiled plans for the new nursing degree apprenticeships

30 Nov 2016
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PHE warns of risk to vulnerable
29 Nov 2016
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smartphone

Nurses should not use personal mobile phones for work, according to new RCN guidance.

29 Nov 2016
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Diabetes specialist nurses teams are reaching ‘breaking point’, according to charity

28 Nov 2016
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Lugain Althamy & Joanne McEwan

Joanne McEwan’s iPad app helps healthcare professionals to enquire sensitively about the i

28 Nov 2016
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Hospice care

Research by the charity Hospice UK reveals that less than a fifth of hospice car

28 Nov 2016
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Sepsis

Health professionals, including nurses, are being urged to help tackle sepsis.

25 Nov 2016
Thousands of nurses have considered leaving UK to work overseas over the last five years, Nursing Standard can reveal.
25 Nov 2016

Conference speakers urge nurses to help lead change in public health.

24 Nov 2016

The RCN has accused the government of missing an opportunity to tackle the nursing workforce crisis after chancellor Philip Hammond failed to scrap the 1% public sector pay cap in his autumn statement.

23 Nov 2016

More than 100 nurses were made Queen’s Nurses, and four others named fellows at a ceremony in London

23 Nov 2016

Fathers are being left out of involvement in their children’s healthcare with potentially devastating consequences, international nursing experts will hear today.

23 Nov 2016

Health officials are examining whether patients should have to show proof of identity to receive some forms of NHS care.

22 Nov 2016

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