Healthcare unions demand Article 50 extension and ‘people’s vote’ on Brexit
The UK is still on course to leave the EU on March the 29th but the defeat throws doubt over...
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Politics
Home Office doubles charge for migrants to use the NHS
The RCN is calling on the Government to waive the Immigration Health Surcharge for non-EEA nursing staff.
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Chronic staff shortages will compromise the NHS long term plan
The Royal College of Nursing has warned that chronic staffing shortages could undermine the goals set out in the NHS...
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Patients must “take greater responsibility for managing their own health”, says Hancock
"In the UK, we are spending £97bn of public money on treating disease and only £8bn preventing it across the...
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NHS told to reuse more medical equipment
"Patients should be able to return the countless pairs of perfectly good crutches sitting unused in the corner of living...
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Hancock fails to acknowledge NHS staff shortages
Hancock claims that there are "12,000 more nurses on our wards" and "14,000 more doctors".
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RCN boss to speak at Conservative Party Conference in a bid to ‘fix health and social care’
The college has launched a debate about how Britain’s two biggest political parties can fix health and social care without...
Read moreHancock’s promise of ‘£50m extra every single day’ for the NHS doesn’t add up
Twenty billion in additional funding over five years actually equates to around eleven million a day.
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