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The conclusion can only be that not much has changed for HCAs and their social care counterparts in the more than 10 years since the Cavendish review.
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Nursing Times
9h ago
Agnes Musikavanhu has returned to Morriston Hospital to celebrate her 80th birthday, more than 60 years after she first went there to begin her nurse training, having arrived in the UK from Africa.
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9h ago
A consultation on safe and effective staffing for nurses and other healthcare staff has been launched for Northern Ireland.
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10h ago
Student nurses in Scotland are using food banks and barely scraping by, due to a lack of pay on placements and restrictions on paid part-time work, Nursing Times has been told.
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Nursing Times
13h ago
The proposed changes to the national NHS job profiles for nurses “do not go far enough” to recognise the skills and expertise of staff, the Royal College of Nursing has warned.
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A lack of clinical expertise among inspectors is one of the reasons why the Care Quality Commission is failing, an independent review has warned.
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Nursing Times
17h ago
A drop in confidence in NHS staff feeling able to speak up about clinical safety issues has been described as “concerning” by the National Guardian’s Office.
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Nursing Times
17h ago
Silvana Gastaldi, Rose Gallagher, Monica Ronco, Alessia Arcangeli, Giovanni Civile, Maria Gabriela Festa, Raffaella Rossetti, Giulia Zavagno and Maria Mongardi on targeting glove misuse.
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17h ago
Kelly McGovern, chief nurse of West Hertfordshire Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust, on how she manages her own wellbeing.
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17h ago
Prescribing non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAIDs) to patients at high risk of harm from them is estimated to cost the NHS in England around £31m a decade, according to a study findings.
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