Nursing Recruitment News

Recent figures have highlighted that the NHS trusts in England spent over £300m on consultancy services in 2009. The £300m bill included paid for advice on a wide range of services from legal contracts to human resources...

As up to 4,000 NHS workers face the axe to save money, NHS boards have been heavily criticised for spending more than £1.3 million on hospitality last year. Figures uncovered by the Scottish Labour Party using the Freedom...

Experts fear that under the government's plan to overhaul the NHS may harm the public health drive. The proposed shake-up will see NHS primary care trusts' budgets being given over to GP consortiums. The shake-up...

Under current EU orders thousands of nurses from Eastern Europe will now be allowed to work in the Britain without any safety checks as EU rules demand that the tests are scrapped. Previously any nurses coming from Eastern...

Up to 200,000 patients' lives are being put at risk because of errors in a new central NHS database of medical records. The NHS database SPINE (the Summary Care Record), which allows patient records to be shared between...

Up to 1,300 jobs in Northern Ireland could be cut in a bid to save money claim The Royal College of Nursing. However, Michael McGimpsey said, “there were no plans to reduce nursing staff.” At the launch of RCN's...

With increasing pressure to cut back on expenditure, FRONTLINE health services must be protected in the face of “unprecedented” £1.9bn cuts, unions today warned. The Royal College of Nursing (RCN) Wales said, “the...

It is no secret that these are financially challenging times for everyone, and particularly for those in charge of government funded operations such as the NHS. Andrew Lansley, the Health Secretary in the new Conservative-Liberal...

While spending on the NHS has tripled since 1997 to a figure of around £110 billion and of course the issue of nursing jobs has always been a political hot potato, uncertainty over the level of spending cuts to come is clearly...

The increasing need by the government to make the NHS more cost effective has placed considerable demands on the nursing profession. Over emphasis on targets, finance and privatisation has served to undermine public confidence...