Health Education England (HEE) is inviting healthcare employers, nurses, care assistants, health commissioners and other stakeholders to take part in a consultation on the design of a new nursing support
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Workers at the charity Action For Children have voted in favour of strikes in a row over pay. Members of Unite backed walkouts by 77%, and other forms of industrial
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The head of the Royal College of GPs has said she is “shocked and dismayed” by the imposition of a new contract on junior doctors. Dr Maureen Baker, chairwoman of
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Agencies which supply workers to the NHS say they are struggling to fill shifts since a spending cap was introduced by the Government. A survey by the Recruitment and Employment
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Scotland faces “real challenges” in recruiting GPs over the next decade, the First Minister has acknowledged, as she announced funding of £27 million to train more doctors, nurses and midwives.
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There has been a huge reduction in the number of social care workers caring for adults in England, official figures show. The number of adult social care staff employed by
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Locum doctors and nurses are unfairly earning significantly more than their NHS counterparts by working for “rip-off agencies”, according to health sector regulators. Monitor and the NHS TDA (Trust Development
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Front line care workers are all too often “undervalued, unappreciated and overlooked,” a new report has found. The document, called Voices From The Front Line, has been published today by
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The First Minister has called on councils to “do the right thing” and accept the funding deal being offered by the Scottish Government. She made the plea as the February
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Government plans to introduce a new role of nursing associate must provide genuine opportunities to enhance the role of health care assistants (HCAs) but will not solve the fundamental problem
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