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Thanks to medical research, doctors can deliver health care services more effectively and efficiently; patients’ quality of life can often be improved; patients’ safety can be increased; and specialized care such as prenatal and cancer care can be grea…
Plan expected to be published next month could propose increasing places from 7,500 to 15,000Britain could double the number of doctors and nurses it trains under NHS plans to tackle a deepening staffing crisis, according to reports.The proposal to inc…
Strikes must be called off for talks to start, says No 10, as ministers given more freedom to talk to unionsMinisters have been given the freedom to talk to unions about pay settlements that could include backdated or one-off payments as ways to end th…
Union hits out after it was excluded from talks between health secretary and Royal College of NursingThe health union Unison has announced new strike action and warned there could be no “pick and mix solution” to the NHS dispute, after it was excluded …
Health secretary, Steve Barclay, to take part in talks on pay, conditions and ‘productivity-enhancing reforms’Nurses in England have agreed to pause major strike action while they hold “intensive talks” with the government in an attempt to reach a sett…
RCN suspends 48-hour strike in England planned for March with health secretary to meet union leaders. This live blog is now closedNurses in England pause strike action to enter ‘intensive’ pay talksMinette Batters, president of the National Farmers’ Un…
Feminist groups and TUC say public services with mainly female workforces will have rights affected by ‘draconian’ lawFeminist campaign groups have raised the alarm about the government’s anti-strike bill, which will enforce minimum service levels, say…
Pat Cullen says prime minister must step in if 48-hour strike across 120 hospitals is to be avertedThe prime minister has been urged to step in to avert fresh strike action by nurses that is likely to have a “significant impact” on NHS services in Engl…
RCN says nearly 43,000 nurses in UK have quit early in their careers over past five yearsThe UK’s largest nursing union warned of a workforce “exodus” with tens of thousands of young staff leaving the profession, as NHS bosses backed calls for minister…
Tatiana Brandão and Raquel Moreira, originally from Portugal, died on holiday close to the Grand CanyonTributes have been paid to two “‘kind and talented” NHS nurses who died in a car crash while visiting the Grand Canyon.Tatiana Brandão, 30, and Raque…