Student nursing and midwifery places to reach record high in Scotland
The number of student nursing and midwifery places will reach a record high in the next academic year in a bid to tackle staffing pressures in the NHS. Course spots
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RCN call for significant student funding with understaffing jeopardising NHS care
Patient care in the NHS is suffering due to vacancies in the health service, nurses have said as they called for significant investment in student funding. The Royal College of
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Engage: Book chronicling struggles of NHS workforce wins big at national awards
A book which chronicles the struggles of NHS staff and the politics surrounding the health service has been honoured at the National Book Awards. Comedian and former doctor Adam Kay
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Shortage of staff now greater threat to NHS than funding, experts warn
The NHS faces a shortage of 350,000 staff by 2030, with experts warning that the workforce crisis is now a greater threat to services than its financial problems. Three leading
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Families ask questions over 36 deaths at maternity probe hospital trust
Families have raised questions over the deaths of 36 people at a trust at the centre of a maternity probe, it has emerged. Shrewsbury and Telford NHS Trust said it
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Heavy workloads and training gaps behind UK’s poor maternity care outcomes
Failures to follow guidelines and best practice in hospitals is contributing to incidents of newborn death and brain-damage, a new report claims. The Each Baby Counts study found nearly three
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New review warns NHS could be 51,000 nurses short post-Brexit
Fresh concerns have been raised over a nursing shortfall post-Brexit after a new review found that Britain could be left an additional 10,000 nurses short. In England, the latest nursing
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Mother left traumatised by daughter’s difficult birth awarded £75,000 damages
A mother left traumatised by her disabled daughter’s difficult birth has been awarded more than £75,000 in damages by a High Court judge. The woman, who cannot be identified, suffered
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Health Secretary announces ‘zero tolerance’ measures on violence against NHS staff
The NHS will adopt a “zero tolerance” approach to violence against its staff, the Health Secretary has announced. Matt Hancock will set out a series of measures to protect workers
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Hospitals increasingly turning to healthcare assistants to plug care gap
NHS hospitals are “plugging the care gap” with healthcare assistants where they are struggling to recruit nurses, a new report suggests. The document, by BPP University School of Nursing, states
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