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QNI resource targets transition to adult community services
Online learning resource developed with the help of teenagers and parents aims to improve...
14 Mar 2017
Support your EU colleagues, urges chief nurse
Nurses from the EU face an 'uncertain future' and need our support, Jane Cummings said, as...
14 Mar 2017
More than 5,000 new cases of FGM recorded in the NHS in 2016
RCN professional lead for public health Helen Donovan said mandatory reporting laws mean...
13 Mar 2017
Non-EU worker fee risks adding to staffing crisis, warns RCN
College says the government must exempt healthcare workers from new immigration charge.
13 Mar 2017
Life-threatening sepsis must be treated within the hour, says NICE
The National Institute for Health and Care Excellence is urging hospital staff to treat...
10 Mar 2017
We must not repeat previous mistakes, says former Mid Staffs trust head
Current NHS pressures are recreating the circumstances that led to disastrous failings at...
10 Mar 2017
Exclusive: EU nurse figures in decline before Brexit vote
The falling number of European Union (EU) nurses applying to work in the UK has been widely...
09 Mar 2017
Three in four people support pay boost for nurses, survey shows
A poll for the GMB union shows the majority of Conservative, Labour and Liberal Democrat...
09 Mar 2017
Spring budget: reaction
Nurses have labelled the spring budget as a 'missed opportunity', with the NHS failing to...
08 Mar 2017
Three UK universities in world top ten for nursing
King's College London has been named the third best university in the world for nursing,...
08 Mar 2017
Midwives create artwork from newborns' footprints ...
Staff in Hull are turning babies' footprints into works of art.
07 Mar 2017
60% of NHS staff 'have worked while unwell'
NHS staff are still putting themselves under pressure to go to work when feeling unable to...
07 Mar 2017
Have YOUR say on the state of the NHS
Nursing Standard has joined forces with The Sunday Mirror and The Sunday People for a UK-...
07 Mar 2017
Plans for further 2,000 nursing associates in 2018
Health Education England confirms proposals to train more nursing associates.
06 Mar 2017
Nurses among thousands at Our NHS rally
An estimated quarter of a million people joined a march through the streets of London in...
06 Mar 2017
'Struggling' nurses depending on hardship grants to survive, RCN says...
Record numbers of nurses and healthcare assistants have applied for hardship grants, the RCN...
06 Mar 2017
Thousands of nurses leave NHS posts to maintain ‘work-life balance’
Half of nurses leaving jobs at NHS trusts do so for ‘unknown reasons’, while thousands have...
03 Mar 2017