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NHS on course to spend £1bn on agency nurses this year

By The Press Association5th February 2015News England

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

Nurses & healthcare staff working 4 hours unpaid every week

By The Press Association2nd February 2015News England

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

Ebola nurse tells of fight to live

By The Press Association26th January 2015News Scotland

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

Poor diabetes treatment resulting in avoidable deaths

By The Press Association14th January 2015News England

The poor state of diabetes healthcare in England is leading to avoidable deaths, record rates of complications and huge costs to the NHS, according to a Diabetes UK report. There

Charities urge government over A&E role

By The Press Association13th January 2015News England

Some of Britain’s leading charities will urge the Government to let them make a “radical intervention” at accident and emergency departments in a bid to relieve crippling pressure on doctors

Major cancer prevention & detection programme launched

By The Press Association12th January 2015News England

Health chiefs today launched a major initiative designed to improve prevention, detection and treatment of cancer. NHS England announced an independent task force which will develop a five-year action plan

NHS pressures underlined as Macmillan reveal 2.5 million living with cancer

By Iain MacDonald7th January 2015News England

There will be a record high 2.5 million people living with cancer in the UK in 2015, an increase of almost half a million people in the last five years,

Health Minister concedes NHS not meeting targets

By The Press Association6th January 2015News England

Health Minister Norman Lamb has admitted the NHS “is not meeting” its targets, as new figures today are expected to show that A&E waiting times have fallen to their worst

Christmas A&E visits warning for elderly

By The Press Association23rd December 2014News England

Elderly people are being warned not to store up their health problems for the holidays, for fear they will end up in busy emergency departments with more serious illnesses. A

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NHS on course to spend £1bn on agency nurses this year