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Senior health leaders have identified improving the appeal of doing a nursing degree as a key factor in achieving the NHS’s lofty nurse recruitment goals. At the 2024 Nursing Times Workforce Summit, held in London today, a panel discussed the progress on and challenges facing the NHS Long Term Workforce…
The UK nursing regulator is “genuinely open” to the idea of changing the number of practice learning hours student nurses and midwives are required to undertake, a Nursing Times conference has heard. It comes as a new review into practice learning requirements across the UK, commissioned by the Nursing and…
A mental health trust in North West England is seeking to boost the role of its nurses in enabling patients to make advance care plans. A total of 40 matrons and nurse specialists from Mersey Care NHS Foundation Trust have undergone training at Liverpool John Moores University on anticipatory and…
A cancer survivor who signed up to study nursing five days after getting the all-clear has said that her life now feels complete after becoming a nurse. Eve Howard, 47, from Penkridge, Staffordshire was enjoying a 20-year career in digital marketing until a cancer diagnosis changed her course. “It’s an…
University College London (UCL) has appointed its first-ever professor of nursing. Professor Rachel Taylor, director of the Centre for Nurse, Midwife and Allied Health Profession Led Research (CNMAR) at University College London Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust (UCLH) and UCL nurse academic, was given the appointment this week. "Rachel has inspired…
A rising number of nurses are quitting less than a decade into their careers, the Royal College of Nursing (RCN) has warned. The RCN urged government ministers wanting to prevent further nurses from exiting the workforce prematurely to improve working conditions and pay for the profession. "Every nurse who walks…
The family of a student mental health nurse who died following a car crash in 2021 has donated money to support the patients who she would have cared for. Lana Maddison, from Silloth, Cumbria was just 19 when she died from injuries caused by a road traffic accident for which…
Nurse leaders have warned that cuts to government funding of some nursing apprenticeships would "jeopardise" courses and hamper recruitment and retention. In September, the UK Government began an “overhaul” of how apprenticeships are funded. "Cutting funding for level 7 post-registration apprenticeships carries significant risks for patients" Crystal Oldman The Department…
The Republic of Ireland has renewed a scheme that funds nurse training in Northern Ireland, but the number of places reserved for Northern Irish students has been reduced. Stephen Donnelly, minister for health in the Republic, announced this week that it would fund 179 places on nursing and allied health…
The Welsh Government must invest in consultant nurses, leaders in the profession have urged, as numbers have still not recovered following a sharp decline at the start of the last decade. The Royal College of Nursing (RCN)’s Wales branch published a policy briefing this week which included a series of…
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