Pay offer to Northen Ireland’s midwives ‘miserly’
Midwives will be “disgusted” with a pay offer for health staff in Northern Ireland, it has been warned. The Royal College of Midwives (RCM) said the devolved government had made
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Tag: Nursing / Midwifery
Trips to hire overseas nurses increase ninefold
The number of hospitals sending scouting parties abroad in a bid to hire nurses is nine times higher than two years ago, new figures suggest. The data, obtained by the
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NHS on course to spend £1bn on agency nurses this year
The NHS is on course to spend £1 billion on agency nursing staff by the end of the year due to a “payday loan attitude towards workforce planning”, a report
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Guidance: NMC issue new code of standards for nurses
The Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC) has published a revised Code which places public expectations at the heart of good nursing and midwifery practice. The Code will be sent to
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Nurses & healthcare staff working 4 hours unpaid every week
A campaign is being launched to highlight the extra hours of unpaid work nursing staff are putting in every week. The Royal College of Nursing (RCN) said nurses were “propping
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Ebola nurse tells of fight to live
The Scottish nurse who contracted Ebola has revealed how the illness took her from wondering “what all the fuss was about” to the brink of death. Pauline Cafferkey, 39, was
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New funding for specialist nurses in Scotland
An extra £2.5 million will be invested in specialist nursing and care, First Minister Nicola Sturgeon has announced. The first allocation of the new funding package, £700,000, will go towards
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Charity pledges investigation into Ebola case
Save the Children has said a review into how a British nurse – who is in a critical condition in a north London hospital with Ebola – had contracted the
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Figures reveal 80% of new nurses hired from overseas
Four out of five nurses hired in NHS hospitals in the last year were recruited from overseas, new figures suggest. Three quarters of all 140 acute hospital trusts in England
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Doubt cast on Glasgow nurse’s conviction
New scientific evidence casts fresh doubt on the conviction of a nurse who was jailed for a minimum of 30 years for murdering four elderly women and attempting to kill
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