All Nursing articles – Page 102
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No extra cash to fund Blair's nurse posts
Trusts will not be given additional funding to pay for the 'nurse consultant' posts outlined by the government last week.
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Short cuts Rise in number of nurses and midwives coming to UK
The UK Central Council for Nursing, Midwifery and Health Visiting has reported a 'huge increase' in the number of overseas nurses and midwives coming to the UK. Provisional figures for 1998-99 show a 38 per cent increase in the number of people from abroad applying for registration, from 5,946 to ...
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Langlands told millennium nursing shortage may be 'catastrophic'
The 10-day millennium holiday break will be 'catastrophic for patient care', Professor George Alberti, president of the Royal College of Physicians has warned.
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Unions furious as trust cuts nurses' pay award
Nursing unions have been angered by a Glasgow trust's attempt to claw back part of its nurses' pay.
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Trusts 'saving on nurses'
Trusts must stop trying to save money by employing fewer senior nurses, Royal College of Nursing general secretary Christine Hancock demanded last week.
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Help us find where the missing nurses have gone
Many readers will have seen the coverage of our initiative to drop a 'back to nursing' leaflet through all 80,000-plus letter boxes locally (news focus, page 9, 11 February). It has been the most cost-effective method we have so far used to identify potential job applicants.
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Nurses gain prescribing powers
Nurses and other health professionals will be given wider powers to prescribe under proposals from the second Crown report into the supply and administration of medicines.
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Courts could uphold right to free nursing care
Action has been eagerly awaited since the landmark High Court ruling last December that the NHS has a legal duty to provide free nursing care and cannot shift the liability to local authorities, which charge those who have the means to pay.
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Report finds misuse of district nursing services
One in 10 referrals to district nursing services could be inappropriate, according to an Audit Commission report.
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Only two PCG chairs to be held by nurses
Just two of the 481 primary care groups in England are chaired by nurses, it has emerged.