Plans to restrict trade union work 'risk serious consequences' for staff
Government proposed rules that are expected to restrict and reduce trade union duties in the workplace could have “serious consequences” for staff productivity and morale in the NHS, unions have warned. (Source: Nursing Times Breaking News)
Source: Nursing Times Breaking News - September 10, 2015 Category: Nursing Source Type: news
West Herts to be placed in special measures
West Hertfordshire Hospitals Trust faces being imminently placed in special measures following a Care Quality Commission inspection. (Source: Nursing Times Breaking News)
Source: Nursing Times Breaking News - September 9, 2015 Category: Nursing Source Type: news
East London family nurses offer language support to young mums
Nurses in Newham are helping families learn English as part of the east London borough’s Family Nurse Partnership scheme. (Source: Nursing Times Breaking News)
Source: Nursing Times Breaking News - September 8, 2015 Category: Nursing Source Type: news
Norfolk trust expands new student nurse training model
A new coaching model at a trust in Norfolk that allows double the number of student nurses to be trained is to be expanded following its success. (Source: Nursing Times Breaking News)
Source: Nursing Times Breaking News - September 8, 2015 Category: Nursing Source Type: news
Staff wellbeing highlighted in mental health taskforce survey
More effort should be made to address the wellbeing of NHS and social care staff working in mental health according to one of the interim findings from a taskforce set up by NHS England to improve mental health services. (Source: Nursing Times Breaking News)
Source: Nursing Times Breaking News - September 8, 2015 Category: Nursing Source Type: news
Keogh trust to exit special measures after two years
The Care Quality Commission has recommended that Tameside Hospital Foundation Trust comes out of special measures. (Source: Nursing Times Breaking News)
Source: Nursing Times Breaking News - September 8, 2015 Category: Nursing Source Type: news
New framework for action on end of life and palliative care
A new framework on end of life care has been drawn up by a group of statutory health bodies which is hoped will spur clinical commissioning groups and health and well-being boards to make this type of care a priority in local areas. (Source: Nursing Times Breaking News)
Source: Nursing Times Breaking News - September 8, 2015 Category: Nursing Source Type: news
South London CCG appoints practice nurse consultant to drive innovation
A clinical commissioning group in south London has appointed its first nurse consultant in practice nursing to help drive improvement and innovation in local services. (Source: Nursing Times Breaking News)
Source: Nursing Times Breaking News - September 7, 2015 Category: Nursing Source Type: news
Specialist nurses under pressure as breast cancer cases increase
The number of specialist breast cancer nurses is failing to keep pace with rates of diagnosis of the disease causing increasing pressure on the workforce, a charity has warned. (Source: Nursing Times Breaking News)
Source: Nursing Times Breaking News - September 7, 2015 Category: Nursing Source Type: news
New national safety standards to tackle surgery 'never events'
A new set of national standards have been published in a bid to reduce the number of patient safety incidents related to invasive procedures that could lead to so-called “never events”. (Source: Nursing Times Breaking News)
Source: Nursing Times Breaking News - September 7, 2015 Category: Nursing Source Type: news
Nursing Times launches Directors’ Congress
The chief nursing officer for New York’s Mount Sinai Hospital in the US is to deliver the keynote speech at the first Nursing Times Directors’ Congress next month. (Source: Nursing Times Breaking News)
Source: Nursing Times Breaking News - September 7, 2015 Category: Nursing Source Type: news
Postcode lottery of under-fives' health revealed by study
A new study has revealed a huge disparity in levels of obesity, tooth decay, injury and early childhood development for under-fives across the country. (Source: Nursing Times Breaking News)
Source: Nursing Times Breaking News - September 7, 2015 Category: Nursing Source Type: news
Warning over NMC rule change for lapsed registration
Nurses and midwives who fail to renew their registration on time could face weeks out of work under new rules from the Nursing and Midwifery Council. (Source: Nursing Times Breaking News)
Source: Nursing Times Breaking News - September 4, 2015 Category: Nursing Source Type: news
Vaccination appeal as pertussis in pregnancy remains high
More pregnant women should be encouraged to take up the whooping cough vaccine, after new figures revealed the disease remains at raised levels in England. (Source: Nursing Times Breaking News)
Source: Nursing Times Breaking News - September 4, 2015 Category: Nursing Source Type: news
Paediatric nurses honoured at compassionate care awards
A group of paediatric nurses and doctors who support young patients to learn about their bloods by spending the day in a haematology laboratory are among the winners of this year’s Kate Granger Compassionate Care Awards. (Source: Nursing Times Breaking News)
Source: Nursing Times Breaking News - September 4, 2015 Category: Nursing Source Type: news
