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SHORTCUTS: Nursing pack aims to benchmark care standards
New standards of care that nurses and other staff are expected to provide for patients, to ensure such things as privacy, dignity and providing food of good nutritional value, have been announced by health minister John Denham. The Essence of Care pack sets out what staff need to do, best ...
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Nursing ambitions for building a new future
Any refugee applicant who wants to register with the UK Central Council for Nursing, Midwifery and Health Visiting is treated the same way as any other overseas applicant, explains spokesman John Knape.
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Nursing a grievance on a wing and a prayer
I took a call at the office on Sunday night from a Downing Street official who was keen to persuade me to write about the scale of investment which the government's three years of economic virtue have made possible.
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Nursing unions to call for major pay increase
Unions are to call for a 'substantial'pay rise for nurses and midwives in evidence to their pay review body next month, amid warnings that the workforce is 'still in decline'.
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Unions protest at ' low ' pay for supernurses
Nursing unions have written to health secretary Alan Milburn in protest at the low pay being offered to 'supernurses'.
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Time to give nurses their dues
Promise of high salaries for supernurses is little more than a red herring
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Nurses see through dress code
West Country nurses have been warned to choose their underwear with care following the reissue of a trust's uniform policy.
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Overseas nursing drive 'must be ethical'
Junior health minister Lord Hunt has pledged that overseas recruitment to find 20,000 extra nurses for the NHS in four years will 'have to be done on an ethical basis in countries with a surplus of staff '.
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Ex-nurses wooed for the winter
The NHS is begging recently retired nurses to return to work this winter and offering trusts funding to persuade 'key staff ' to stay on until next spring.
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Nurses to ballot over on-call pay
Managers at a landmark private finance initiative scheme in Carlisle are facing industrial action from staff in three departments.