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...
A recent independent survey* asked 640 nurses and midwives about their views on pay has suggested that the majority of nurses believe they are worth a pay rise that is at least...
As a result of Nursing Personnel winning new contracts across the UK and continued growth in the nursing recruitment sector, from Monday the 19th of October 2009 our new head office will be located at Great West House, Brentford...
£ 1.5 bn NHS Proposed Savings
Shadow health secretary Andrew Lansley believes a third could be shaved off the annual cost of quangos and NHS management in England. He believes bureaucracy has gone out of control.
Running...