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Campaign for 'normal births' scrapped following baby deaths

Campaigning for ‘normal births’ will cease to avoid the ‘danger’ of associating medical intervention with abnormality

NHS celebrates 'significant' drop in heart failure fatalities

Hundreds of people are now surviving heart failure due to improvements in patient care, according to an independent study

Nursing innovation projects set for thousands in funding

A project for NHS innovation will pour £1.5 million into several NHS trust to enhance care across fields

NICE approving 'more drugs than ever' for use by cancer patients

Three quarters of drugs on the Cancer Drugs Fund have been approved by NICE for regular use

'Misrepresented' baby boxes ahead of Scotland launch

The makers of a Finnish-inspired ‘baby box’ have pushed back against ‘misrepresentations’ in the press

'No such thing as typical maternity ward' in mixed audit results

A ‘worryingly’ low number of mothers are seeing the same midwife in most appointments across their perinatal period

Regulatory bodies unite to crack down on conflicts of interest

Nurses must put the interests of the people in their care ahead of their own, according to new guidance

Nursing to be focus of 'biggest healthcare event of the year'

Nurses can ‘all lead change and add value across the health and care system’, according to England’s chief nursing officer

Boost in training places 'will do little' to solve recruitment crisis

The ‘biggest ever expansion’ of the NHS workforce will be brought on by an increase in the number of training positions

Healthcare staff wary of hepatitis B risk in vaccine shortage

A shortage of the hepatitis B vaccine has forced Public Health England to limit usage only to 'high-risk' groups

Charlie Gard highlights the scarcity of healthcare resources

His case reflects exemplifies the perils of undervaluing wider healthcare teams away from the front line

New bursary introduced to increase number of male nurses

Bursaries worth £3,000 will be issued to men who take up nursing degrees to balance the gender disparity

Maternity unit closures 'no surprise' to short-staffed midwives

Nearly half of maternity wards in England were closed to new mothers at some time in 2016 because there weren't enough midwives

General practice in 'continuous decline' since 2012

General practice services have been treated with ‘astonishing neglect’ by the Conservative government

Nurses prepare for pay cap protest in Parliament Square

Nurses will take the fight to the government’s doorstep in a demonstration to end their ‘summer of protest’

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