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Readers panel: will the new Nurse First programme improve recruitment?
NHS England has announced a new two-year fast-track programme aimed at recruiting high-...
27 Apr 2017
Readers panel: is strike action over pay now the only option for nurses?
Following the announcement that the below-inflation 1% pay cap is to remain for 2017-18, the...
24 Apr 2017
Readers panel: Should a year's preceptorship be mandatory on qualifying? ...
Dame Jill Macleod Clark, lead adviser on the development of the NMC's new standards for pre-...
12 Apr 2017
Readers panel: Should NHS staff be put under pressure to give up agency work?
On 1 April, NHS Improvement introduced a measure to stop trusts in England from employing...
01 Apr 2017
Readers panel: Is Jeremy Hunt right to prioritise increased nurse numbers over a pay...
At the recent chief nursing officer's summit, health secretary Jeremy Hunt said he 'dearly'...
31 Mar 2017
Readers panel: Is there a need to improve the image of nursing?
England's chief nursing officer Jane Cummings is embarking on a joint project with the RCN...
27 Mar 2017
Readers panel: should newly qualified nurses be allowed to prescribe?
Under draft education plans from the Nursing and Midwifery Council, newly qualified nurses...
21 Mar 2017
Readers panel: should school nurses be responsible for sex education in schools?
Education secretary Justine Greening recently confirmed that sex and relationship education...
12 Mar 2017
Readers panel: is the NHS heading towards another Mid Staffs-style care scandal?
It has been four years since Sir Robert Francis’ report on poor care at Mid Staffordshire...
09 Mar 2017
Readers panel: do nurses have a duty to set an example to patients and quit smoking?
Public Health England head of digital strategy Mary Black, who lost her father and...
01 Mar 2017
Readers panel: should longer GP consultations be an NHS priority?
The average consultation time with a GP in the UK is ten minutes. Research by The Health...
14 Feb 2017
Readers panel: Should the law be changed to make it a specific criminal offence to...
Radio presenter Nick Ferrari has set up a petition calling for a change in the law to give...
08 Feb 2017
Readers’ panel: Is the NMC right to regulate the nursing associate role?
The Nursing and Midwifery Council recently confirmed that it will be the regulator for the...
02 Feb 2017
Readers’ panel: Is the emotional toll on nurses who have to deliver sub-optimal care...
RCN chief executive Janet Davies has said nurses are at ‘breaking point’, with frontline...
24 Jan 2017
Readers’ panel: Should the four-hour A&E target be scrapped?
Amid unprecedented winter pressures, health secretary Jeremy Hunt recently suggested that...
18 Jan 2017
Readers’ panel: Are older nurses more likely to have problems with their performance?
The Nursing and Midwifery Council’s equality and diversity report for 2015-16 revealed that...
10 Jan 2017
Blog: My father’s death inspired me to become a nurse
When her father passed away from acute myeloid leukaemia, Karen McGuigan decided to make a...
03 Jan 2017
Readers’ panel: Are there too many routes into nursing?
The nurse apprenticeship scheme will see up to 1,000 people a year qualify as registered...
22 Dec 2016