On the 70th anniversary of the NHS, healthcare leaders have been paying tribute to the hardworking staff who have helped tens of millions of patients since 1948
Public Health England (PHE) has declared a national measles incident after there were 643 confirmed cases of the disease in the UK in the first half of this year
New Unison president Gordon McKay has spoken of how challenging workplace bullying inspired his union activism.
Aneira Thomas, the first person ever to be born in the NHS, was the guest of honour as the Cavell Nurses' Trust celebrated the work of the UK’s nurses and the 70th anniversary of the health service
The prison service is to update its guidance to nurses on how to deal with prisoners who have taken the psychoactive drug ‘spice’.
The government has urged Universities to improve their services for students with mental health issues and has pledged to award a certificate of excellence to institutions which meet new standards of...
The Queen’s Nursing Institute (QNI) has created 121 new Queen’s Nurses at its awards in London this week. The ceremony, attended by over 300 community nurses and their guests, also saw Fellowship of...
Numbers of health visitors and school nurses must be boosted to combat childhood obesity, the RCN has said in response to the government’s updated strategy
Community services and social care must be the priorities for new NHS funding, according to a survey of NHS Trust directors and CCG finance directors
The RCN has paid tribute to the BME nurses who ‘helped to build the health service that we all rely on’, but stressed that more needs to be done to give them parity with white colleagues
Responding to the Government’s proposal on ‘settled status’ for EU citizens after Brexit, RCN Chief Executive Janet Davies has called on the Government to make a firm promise to honour their...
The RCN’s General Secretary Janet Davies has called for 'a culture of candour' in the NHS, after a review of practices at Gosport Hospital found that up to 650 patients may have had their lives...
The Home Office is expected to announce the relaxation of immigration laws to allow for more foreign doctors and nurses to work in the UK
With registration fees having risen by 58% at a time when NHS pay has been painfully squeezed, editor Mike Shallcross discusses the future of the NMC.
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