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NMC proposes 60% hike in registration fee
The Nursing and Midwifery Council has proposed increasing the annual registrants’ fee to £120 from the start of next year.
Olympic 999 call changes to prioritise most critically ill
Changes to the 999 call handling system before the Olympics and the Queen’s Diamond Jubilee could save at least 150 lives each year, the Department of Health has said.
'It doesn't matter' where health visitors are based, says Lansley
The health secretary has dismissed arguments over where health visitors should be based as “missing the point”.
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Cameron defends parenting classes for newly expecting
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More midwives could work in community
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Pearson: Poor care 'can't be dismissed as one-off events'
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Third of diabetes patients experience drug errors in hospital
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RCN issues dermatitis guidance for glove use
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RCN outlines staffing needed for 'safe' care of older people
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Third of heart risk patients not using cholesterol drugs - BHF
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College pledges to defend ‘human rights’ of nurses
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New guidance on orthopaedic pin sites
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Health visitors to be trained to spot postnatal depression
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Miliband: Attacks on nursing are 'totally unfair'
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Three quarters of learning disability nurses have witnessed service cuts
This Week's Practice
Medication errors in patients with dysphagia
A study examined whether medication errors were more common in acute hospital patients with dysphagia than those without, and the type and cause of such errors.
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Practice comment
"See the big picture and stay vigilant over patient safety"
In 2004, a child died after being fed through a nasogastric tube that had been misplaced in her lungs.
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A Nurse in Time: my life as a trainee nurse in the 1930s
‘The book is a lovely canter through the training of a nurse in the 1930s, with tons of nostalgia – the joy at her discovering her first electric light switches at the Nottingham Hospital where she worked, the hatred of wearing “combinations”, an unfashionable style of lingerie for the time and the importance of how to get noticed by boys and get asked out on dates – and then how to get out of – or back in – nursing quarters outside of “off duty” hours.’
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Editor's Comment
'Invest in skilled nurses to make real savings'
It’s that time of year again. The Royal College of Nursing’s annual congress is upon us and by the time you read this Andrew Lansley will have inevitably endured a frosty reception from delegates.
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The Royal College of Nursing is “prepared to take the government on” in its plans to impose regional pay in the NHS, according to the college’s chief executive and general secretary Peter Carter.
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'We need more health visitors AND more district nurses'
The recent report on community nursing released at RCN Congress highlights the pressure that community nursing is currently under.
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