5+ day, 2+ hour ago   (515+ words) Integrated care boards (ICBs) will be measured on ensuring the ‘right’ healthcare professionals, such as district nurses and senior care home nurses, are in place to meet the government’s shift to community care. Women’s health and maternity minister Baroness Gillian…...

5+ day, 3+ hour ago   (475+ words) The Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC) has ‘strengthened’ its policy on respectful behaviour – stressing it will not tolerate abuse towards its staff or those on the register involved in a fitness to practise (FtP) process. Action will be taken where…...

5+ day, 21+ hour ago   (528+ words) The Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC) is looking for four new members to join its governing body, including at least one midwife, as part of its ‘highly ambitious turnaround plan’. The nursing regulator’s governing body, the NMC Council, sets the…...

6+ day, 1+ hour ago   (931+ words) Practice nurses must be given the ‘tools and training’ to combat conspiracy theories and online misinformation around vaccinations, a parliamentary debate has heard. Centred on vaccination rates in England, the debate saw MPs spotlight the role of practice nurses who…...

1+ week, 5+ day ago   (718+ words) With a new Westminster government in post and as Parliament returns from recess, the Royal College of Nursing’s executive director for England, Patricia Marquis, sets out why now is the time to restate the case for ringfenced funding for general…...

2+ week, 5+ day ago   (538+ words) Health minister Karin Smyth has assured that the government and NHS England are ‘committed’ to ensuring newly registered nurses can enter the nursing workforce after graduation. She said NHS England was ‘actively monitoring the position’ and working to ‘broaden opportunities…...

3+ week, 3+ day ago   (680+ words) A new health minister for Ireland has been announced following the resignation of Mike Nesbitt this week. Ulster Unionist Party (UUP) member of the Northern Ireland legislative assembly (MLA) Robbie Butler was appointed to the health minister position on Thursday…...

3+ week, 3+ day ago   (822+ words) Nurses and families urged to speak out over children’s nursing shake-up Nursing in Practice...

3+ week, 4+ day ago   (734+ words) The Royal College of Nursing (RCN) has raised concerns over the resignation of Northern Ireland’s health minister and has vowed to ensure that delivering a pay award for the profession will remain a key priority for his successor. Mike Nesbitt…...