COVID-19: Vaccines have prevented thousands of deaths The COVID-19 vaccination programme has prevented as many as 6,100 deaths in England up to the end of February 2021, according to analysis carried out by Public Health England NHS sets out COVID-19 recovery plan NHS England has announced that it will be accelerating the delivery of operations and other non-urgent services as part of a £8.1 billion plan to help the health service recover all patient services following the winter wave of COVID-19 ‘Real risk’ thousands will leave the NHS after COVID Thousands of staff could leave the NHS as a result of the challenges of the pandemic, unless they are given a chance to recover, the NHS Confederation has claimed 1 comment Nurses suffer real-terms pay cut NHS salaries have fallen in real-terms by up to 32%, a new analysis by the RCN has found Prime Minister must stand by nurses who stood by him, says RCN leader Boris Johnson, the Prime Minister, must remember the work of nursing staff he praised after his own hospital stay and reconsider his 1% NHS pay award, Dame Donna Kinnair, chief executive of the RCN has said 2 comments COVID-19: £7 billion boost for NHS and social care A £7 billion package for health and care services to support the next phase of the NHS response to COVID-19 has been announced by the Department of Health and Social Care Debut novel from IN publisher is praised for its descriptions of nursing The debut novel by Independent Nurse’s publisher Mark Allen, has won plaudits from leading literary figures for its realistic descriptions of the nursing world. COVID-19: NHS needs £12 billion to repair pandemic damage An extra £12 billion a year is needed to invest in the NHS and care system, to recover the damage done by the COVID-19 pandemic, a report from the Institute for Public Policy Research has found COVID-19: At risk patients urged to get vaccinated People with underlying conditions including cancer, diabetes and heart disease are being encouraged to get a COVID-19 vaccine by UK health charities British Journal of Nursing Awards celebrate leading nurses The British Journal of Nursing Awards’ winners were announced in a special online ceremony on 8 March COVID-19: Current infection control guidelines are ‘fundamentally flawed’ The COVID-19 pandemic has shown that the UK’s infection control guidelines are ‘flawed and need replacing, according to a new report commissioned by the RCN COVID-19: ‘Unimaginable’ cost of Test and Trace The Test and Trace programme failed to deliver central promise of averting another lockdown despite billions of pounds in funding, a report from the Public Accounts Committee has found RCN to set up industrial action fund The RCN Council has voted unanimously for the Union to immediately set up a £35 million industrial action fund Pay recommendation ‘pitiful and bitterly disappointing’ Healthcare unions have slammed the Department of Health and Social Care’s recommendation that nurses and other staff receive a 1% pay rise 4 comments Nearly £80 million boost to young people’s mental health Millions more children and young people will have access to significantly expanded mental health services, backed by £79 million, the Department of Health and Social Care has announced Vaccination: New webinar series offers free CPD opportunity A new series of free webinars aimed at informing primary care nurses on the cutting edge of influenza has been released by Seqirus COVID-19: Declining deaths ‘reassuring’ but NHS still under pressure The number of deaths due to COVID-19 has continued to fall, although caution must still be exercised, according to figures from the Office of National Statistics British Journal of Nursing Awards return The prestigious British Journal of Nursing Awards will return as a week-long online event, to celebrate the efforts of nurses during the COVID-19 pandemic from 8th–12th March COVID-19: More than a million more people invited for vaccine Hundreds of thousands of people asked to shield earlier this month are being invited for a COVID jab, NHS England has announced Mental health: NHS expands support for staff The NHS has set up 40 new dedicated support hubs for the mental health of staff, NHS England has announced Nursing staff ‘must be at the heart of roadmap to recovery’ The RCN has published staff recovery and patient safety principles which they say must guide health care employers in planning the return to ‘normal’ service delivery Prime Minister must act on ‘inadequate’ protection of health workers, healthcare leaders say The Prime Minister, Boris Johnson, must help prevent further loss of life by acting on the evidence around the need for better ventilation and higher grade PPE, a coalition of health experts has stated in a joint letter Education: Nursing UCAS applications soar More than 60,000 people have applied to study nursing in response to the COVID-19 pandemic, figures from UCAS have shown COVID-19: New vaccine booking system brought in for all health and care workers All frontline health and social care workers in England can now self-refer for COVID-19 vaccine appointments, the Department of Health and Social Care has announced COVID-19: New technology to help identify those at high risk New technology has been introduced in England to help clinicians identify a new group of people who may be at high risk from COVID-19 for the first time
COVID-19: Vaccines have prevented thousands of deaths The COVID-19 vaccination programme has prevented as many as 6,100 deaths in England up to the end of February 2021, according to analysis carried out by Public Health England
NHS sets out COVID-19 recovery plan NHS England has announced that it will be accelerating the delivery of operations and other non-urgent services as part of a £8.1 billion plan to help the health service recover all patient services following the winter wave of COVID-19
‘Real risk’ thousands will leave the NHS after COVID Thousands of staff could leave the NHS as a result of the challenges of the pandemic, unless they are given a chance to recover, the NHS Confederation has claimed 1 comment
Nurses suffer real-terms pay cut NHS salaries have fallen in real-terms by up to 32%, a new analysis by the RCN has found
Prime Minister must stand by nurses who stood by him, says RCN leader Boris Johnson, the Prime Minister, must remember the work of nursing staff he praised after his own hospital stay and reconsider his 1% NHS pay award, Dame Donna Kinnair, chief executive of the RCN has said 2 comments
COVID-19: £7 billion boost for NHS and social care A £7 billion package for health and care services to support the next phase of the NHS response to COVID-19 has been announced by the Department of Health and Social Care
Debut novel from IN publisher is praised for its descriptions of nursing The debut novel by Independent Nurse’s publisher Mark Allen, has won plaudits from leading literary figures for its realistic descriptions of the nursing world.
COVID-19: NHS needs £12 billion to repair pandemic damage An extra £12 billion a year is needed to invest in the NHS and care system, to recover the damage done by the COVID-19 pandemic, a report from the Institute for Public Policy Research has found
COVID-19: At risk patients urged to get vaccinated People with underlying conditions including cancer, diabetes and heart disease are being encouraged to get a COVID-19 vaccine by UK health charities
British Journal of Nursing Awards celebrate leading nurses The British Journal of Nursing Awards’ winners were announced in a special online ceremony on 8 March
COVID-19: Current infection control guidelines are ‘fundamentally flawed’ The COVID-19 pandemic has shown that the UK’s infection control guidelines are ‘flawed and need replacing, according to a new report commissioned by the RCN
COVID-19: ‘Unimaginable’ cost of Test and Trace The Test and Trace programme failed to deliver central promise of averting another lockdown despite billions of pounds in funding, a report from the Public Accounts Committee has found
RCN to set up industrial action fund The RCN Council has voted unanimously for the Union to immediately set up a £35 million industrial action fund
Pay recommendation ‘pitiful and bitterly disappointing’ Healthcare unions have slammed the Department of Health and Social Care’s recommendation that nurses and other staff receive a 1% pay rise 4 comments
Nearly £80 million boost to young people’s mental health Millions more children and young people will have access to significantly expanded mental health services, backed by £79 million, the Department of Health and Social Care has announced
Vaccination: New webinar series offers free CPD opportunity A new series of free webinars aimed at informing primary care nurses on the cutting edge of influenza has been released by Seqirus
COVID-19: Declining deaths ‘reassuring’ but NHS still under pressure The number of deaths due to COVID-19 has continued to fall, although caution must still be exercised, according to figures from the Office of National Statistics
British Journal of Nursing Awards return The prestigious British Journal of Nursing Awards will return as a week-long online event, to celebrate the efforts of nurses during the COVID-19 pandemic from 8th–12th March
COVID-19: More than a million more people invited for vaccine Hundreds of thousands of people asked to shield earlier this month are being invited for a COVID jab, NHS England has announced
Mental health: NHS expands support for staff The NHS has set up 40 new dedicated support hubs for the mental health of staff, NHS England has announced
Nursing staff ‘must be at the heart of roadmap to recovery’ The RCN has published staff recovery and patient safety principles which they say must guide health care employers in planning the return to ‘normal’ service delivery
Prime Minister must act on ‘inadequate’ protection of health workers, healthcare leaders say The Prime Minister, Boris Johnson, must help prevent further loss of life by acting on the evidence around the need for better ventilation and higher grade PPE, a coalition of health experts has stated in a joint letter
Education: Nursing UCAS applications soar More than 60,000 people have applied to study nursing in response to the COVID-19 pandemic, figures from UCAS have shown
COVID-19: New vaccine booking system brought in for all health and care workers All frontline health and social care workers in England can now self-refer for COVID-19 vaccine appointments, the Department of Health and Social Care has announced
COVID-19: New technology to help identify those at high risk New technology has been introduced in England to help clinicians identify a new group of people who may be at high risk from COVID-19 for the first time