David Cameron has clashed with nursing leaders over claims that the profession faces a recruitment crisis. The outgoing chief executive of the Royal College of Nursing (RCN) Dr Peter Carter
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Health Secretary Jeremy Hunt has ordered a clampdown on staffing agencies that are “ripping off the NHS”, in a bid to improve the health service’s financial woes. Agency staff bills
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A new resource to help adult social care employers tackle the challenges of staff recruitment and retention has been published by sector agency, Skills for Care. The Finding and Keeping
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A new £1m to plan to recruit new primary care support workers to help people diagnosed with dementia has been unveiled as part of a new Welsh Government drive to
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A senior NHS agency manager has been jailed for two-and-a-half years for fraud after she received a kickback of more than £50,000 stolen from the public purse. Julie Angrish, the
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A new scheme has been launched to recruit and train graduates to become mental health social workers. The Think Ahead programme is being announced by Care and Support Minister Norman
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Vulnerable children and their families in Buckinghamshire are set to benefit from a major new training scheme for social workers which was launched last week. The initiative, called the Social
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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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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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A refreshed Adult Social Care Workforce Recruitment and Retention Strategy has been launched by Skills for Care. The refreshed strategy builds upon the achievements of the first ever strategy launched
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