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Nurses and other healthcare staff across the UK are gearing up to celebrate the 60th anniversary of the NHS on Saturday 5 July.
The Conservatives say they will replace central targets and reforms with a focus on patient outcomes. Helen Mooney looks at their plans
Independent nurse-led services will be used to drive service development in the community, according to junior health minister Lord Ara Darzi.
The RCN has launched a national campaign calling on nurses and the government to champion patient dignity.
NHS Direct is to roll out a nurse-led service for people with long-term conditions, after joining forces with two independent companies.
Nurses have been asked to sign up to a two-year campaign to improve patient safety.
Nurses earned an estimated average basic pay of £27,200 in the first quarter of this financial year, a rise of 4.2% on £26,100 for the same period last year, government figures show.
Patients may in future have to give their explicit consent before their care records are uploaded on to the new central NHS database, representing a major policy shift in the health service IT programme.
The use of bank and agency staff in the Scottish NHS has fallen by almost one-third over the past year, according to government figures.
Nurses at the independent sector Priory Group, which runs the famous Priory Hospital in Roehampton, London, are facing cuts to sick pay and a below-inflation pay rise.
NT'S training campaign petition has been presented to parliament by Dr Howard Stoate (pictured), MP for Dartford and a member of the Commons health select committee.
Measures on how well trusts provide post-registration training for nurses are to be introduced under government proposals on workforce quality.
Ward sisters and charge nurses in Wales are to take control of cleaning and care under new powers announced for ward managers.
