The Scottish Government has appointed Professor Fiona McQueen as Scotland’s new Chief Nursing Officer, it was announced today. Professor McQueen has held the post of interim Chief Nursing Officer since
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Midwives will be “disgusted” with a pay offer for health staff in Northern Ireland, it has been warned. The Royal College of Midwives (RCM) said the devolved government had made
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The number of hospitals sending scouting parties abroad in a bid to hire nurses is nine times higher than two years ago, new figures suggest. The data, obtained by the
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The NHS is on course to spend £1 billion on agency nursing staff by the end of the year due to a “payday loan attitude towards workforce planning”, a report
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The Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC) has published a revised Code which places public expectations at the heart of good nursing and midwifery practice. The Code will be sent to
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A campaign is being launched to highlight the extra hours of unpaid work nursing staff are putting in every week. The Royal College of Nursing (RCN) said nurses were “propping
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The Scottish nurse who contracted Ebola has revealed how the illness took her from wondering “what all the fuss was about” to the brink of death. Pauline Cafferkey, 39, was
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An extra £2.5 million will be invested in specialist nursing and care, First Minister Nicola Sturgeon has announced. The first allocation of the new funding package, £700,000, will go towards
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Save the Children has said a review into how a British nurse – who is in a critical condition in a north London hospital with Ebola – had contracted the
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Four out of five nurses hired in NHS hospitals in the last year were recruited from overseas, new figures suggest. Three quarters of all 140 acute hospital trusts in England
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