Health workers are pawning their belongings, regularly visiting foodbanks and taking out high-rate loans as they struggle to make ends meet, new research has found. Unison said its study showed
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More than 40,000 violent assaults against public service workers in Scotland have been recorded in the past decade, according to a survey. Unison’s annual Violence at Work Survey 2016 launched
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A “perfect storm” is brewing for the nursing workforce following a “boom and bust” approach to staffing, the profession has warned. The Royal College of Nursing (RCN) Scotland has called
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Inadequate staffing levels are driving midwives to leave the NHS, with some looking after as many as 15 mothers and babies at a time, according to a new report. The
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The NHS spent £25 million on agency midwives last year – a figure that has doubled in two years, according to a new report. The study, from the Royal College
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Jeremy Hunt has pledged that the NHS will learn lessons from its mistakes as he launched a new voluntary compensation scheme for parents whose babies are damaged at birth. The
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Plans to create 2,000 “nursing associate” roles across England have been announced by health officials. The first 1,000 nursing associates, who will deliver “hands-on” care for patients, are due to
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Professor Fiona Nolan has taken up her position as Florence Nightingale Foundation Chair in Clinical Mental Health Nursing Practice Research at the University of Essex. The new Professorship, in the School
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Nursing leaders have warned that the NHS “would not cope” without staff from abroad, as new figures suggest the number of EU nationals joining NHS hospitals has soared. Around one
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Allegations against nurses and midwives will no longer be available for public scrutiny ahead of disciplinary hearings, a regulator has said. The Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC), which was criticised
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