The Welsh Government is supporting growing demands for the 1% cap on NHS pay to be scrapped. Welsh Health Secretary Vaughan Gething (pictured) has called on the UK Government to
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A big drop in the number of nurses from the EU registering to work in the UK has been blamed by the Government on new language tests rather than Brexit.
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An innovative and exciting new collaboration was celebrated this week with the official launch of the Oxford School of Nursing and Midwifery. The School is a partnership between Oxford Brookes
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The follow-up check for new mothers needs to be improved to ensure women with mental health problems do not fall through gaps in the system, a parenting charity has said.
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Professor Belinda Dewar, Professor of Practice Improvement at University of the West of Scotland’s Institute for Care and Practice Improvement had been recognised in the Queen’s Birthday Honours List. Professor
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Unions representing nurses and other health workers are urging the Prime Minister to remove the 1% cap on their pay, warning it was affecting the recruitment of enough staff to
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More must be done to tackle the “taboo” subject of baby death, a charity has said. Sands, the stillbirth and neonatal death charity, said that while many members of the
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There has been a 17% rise in the last decade in the proportion of women who are already mothers having abortions, figures show. New data from the Department of Health
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A senior midwife at the heart of a baby death scandal has admitted repeatedly failing to properly investigate her colleagues’ shortcomings. Jeanette Parkinson, the former maternity risk manager at University
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Nurses must always ensure they are safe when providing care, according to guidance issued in the wake of recent terror attacks. Australian nurse Kirsty Boden (pictured) was killed after she
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