Nurses are struggling to look after dying patients because of staff shortages, a survey suggests. Two-thirds of nurses (65%) said staffing levels are the main “barrier” to providing good care
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The number of abortions in Scotland is at a 10-year high, official statistics indicate. Figures show 13,286 pregnant women aged 15-44 had terminations in 2018, a rate of 12.9 per
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There has been a 43% drop in the number of district nurses in England in the last 10 years, leading to sometimes unsafe staffing levels, according to a new report.
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Prostitution should be decriminalised to protect the health and welfare of sex workers, nurses have said. The Royal College of Nursing (RCN) is to start actively lobbying the Government to
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The goodwill of nurses is “being abused” while the Government fails to solve the NHS staffing crisis, the head of the Royal College of Nursing (RCN) will say. In her
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One in 20 places on university nursing courses was vacant at the beginning of the academic year, new research suggests. The data secured by The Open University under the Freedom
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Maternity services provided by an NHS board have been put into special measures after a report found patients were at risk. An investigation into maternity units at Cwm Taf University
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One in four NHS wards routinely operate at unsafe staffing levels that threaten patient safety, experts have warned. Researchers at the University of Southampton said that lessons learned from the
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More than 600 emergency Caesarean sections and up to 100 stillbirths could be prevented each year if NHS hospitals followed official guidelines on multiple births, a study has found. The
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More than 160,000 nurses have quit the NHS since 2010/11 for reasons other than retirement, according to new figures. Data analysed by the Labour Party and verified by the House
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