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One key change for children and young people's nursing in the 10 Year Health Plan for England is the establishment of neighbourhood multidisciplinary teams

The 10 Year Health Plan for England seeks to reinvent the NHS, and one key change for chil

03 Nov 2025
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Advice for new nurses: illustration of a nurse smiling, with question marks and medical equipment in speech bubbles above her head

Our nurse columnist on the wisdom of experience passed on by fellow students and nurses in

14 Oct 2025
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Advertised nursing job on a small island has almost all the makings of a perfect post

An advertised nursing post on a small, remote island has almost all the makings of a dream

16 Sep 2025
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Vaccine nirsevimab will help protect very premature babies from respiratory synctial virus, a leading cause of a bronchiolitis

In September, very premature babies in England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland will

01 Sep 2025
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Newly registered nurses are unemployed and demoralised: young woman holds up a sign reading ‘need a job’

Newly registered nurses are struggling to find jobs in the NHS due to funding gaps and fai

15 Jul 2025
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In the UK numbers show that measles, mumps and rubella (MMR) vaccine uptake among children is in decline and there is a need for increased vaccination coverage

Over the last decade the UK has lost its comfort blanket of 95% herd immunity for measles,

10 Jun 2025
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Differentiation of nursing roles: a nursing associate with a patient

The blurring of roles between nursing associates and nurses has led nursing associates to

10 Jun 2025
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Repeating mandatory NHS training: a nurse rests her head on the desk as if she has fallen asleep in a training session

Nursing staff can now transfer their completed statutory and mandatory training to differe

20 May 2025
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Nursing bank shift pay cuts: illustration showing a hand holding a pair of scissors as the person starts to cut into a red UK pound sign

Many nurses work bank shifts as a way to boost their income and also to provide staffing c

29 Apr 2025
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To address adverse childhood experiences changes to health, economic and gender inequalities as well as discrimination need to be faced up to. A nurse smiles and talks with a young girl in a hospital bed

The childhoods of an increasing number of children and young people are marred by poverty,

24 Apr 2025
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Nurse dishonesty: CV has the word ‘false’ stamped across it in red letters

The public trusts nurses more than any other professional group.

11 Mar 2025
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Nurses performing CPR: debrief conversations as well as education updates are essential

Cardiopulmonary resuscitation training to keep nurses’ skills and knowledge up to date is

18 Feb 2025

The Joseph Roundtree Foundation reports that 4.3 million children in the UK live in poverty

17 Feb 2025

A proposal to establish a regulatory body for NHS managers is in consultation and could see

21 Jan 2025

Children’s hospices have evolved to meet the changing needs of children, but need among chi

18 Dec 2024

Nurses in England’s NHS are to start wearing a national uniform, in a gradual adoption of ‘

03 Dec 2024

Hundreds of nurse graduates have been told by the Nursing and Midwifery Council that they f

19 Nov 2024

Lord Darzi’s review of the NHS in England exposes the state of healthcare for children and

20 Oct 2024

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