The University of Gloucestershire is working with NHS Trusts in Gloucestershire to address nursing shortages by introducing a degree programme in Nursing from 2017. The Department for Health, the Nursing
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A new national study of perinatal mental health care in Scotland has shown a geographically mixed level of service in hospitals and in the community. The report, by the Mental
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Nursing regulators have been implored to ensure that all nurses are “fully competent to deliver high-class care” following changes to the English language test requirements for nurses trained outside the
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Last Sunday I had the privilege of taking part in the Royal College of Nursing 100th anniversary Congress which was held in Glasgow for the first time. Together with the
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Leading midwives have expressed fears over the impact Brexit will have on NHS finances. The Royal College of Midwives (RCM) said that while the full impact of the decision to
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Two women who posed as sisters and claimed hundreds of thousands of pounds each in benefits after buying false identities have been jailed. The pair, known under the assumed names
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Plans to create a new nursing support role risk “diluting” the profession and confusing patients, a medical conference has heard. The UK Government announced proposals in December to introduce nursing
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Nicola Sturgeon has guaranteed to retain free tuition and bursaries for nursing and midwifery students in Scotland, branding UK Government plans to scrap them as “shamefully short-sighted”. The First Minister’s
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Mounting pressures on hospitals are leading to patients treated in storerooms, frail and elderly patients being moved around in the middle of the night and ambulances queuing outside A&Es, leading
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Funding cuts to public services are putting the health of the public at risk, leading nurses have warned. Almost four in 10 nurses have treated patients whose health has been
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