Nurses will be offered supermarket discounts to persuade them to stay in the NHS
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Nurses will be offered supermarket discounts to persuade them to stay in the NHS

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This article was taken from: https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2019/07/09/nurses-will-offered-supermarket-discounts-persuade-stay-nhs/ By Laura Donnelly, health editor Nurses will be offered supermarket discounts and cheap gym membership as part of efforts to persuade workers stay in the NHS, health chiefs will say. Simon Stevens, head of the health service, will call for the wider rollout of schemes which have given staff savings of…

Plan to hire thousands of foreign nurses for NHS is axed
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Plan to hire thousands of foreign nurses for NHS is axed

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This article was taken from: https://www.theguardian.com/society/2019/jun/02/foreign-nurses-target-cut-from-nhs-staffing-plan By Michael Savage, Observer policy editor Target was politically difficult for a government committed to reducing net migration A controversial target of hiring 5,000 foreign nurses a year for at least 15 years has been cut from a flagship plan to deal with the NHS’s staffing crisis, the Observer understands. The…

One in four NHS wards has dangerously low numbers of nurses, researchers find
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One in four NHS wards has dangerously low numbers of nurses, researchers find

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This article was taken from: https://www.independent.co.uk/news/health/nhs-hospital-wards-nurse-shortage-staff-healthcare-a8871546.html By Jane Dalton at the Independent Dilution in skills for hospital patients as healthcare assistants used to shore up staff numbers One in four NHS wards routinely operates at staffing levels so low that patient safety is threatened, experts have warned. Researchers have found that a national shortage of nurses…

NHS long-term plan: Are there enough staff to make it happen?
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NHS long-term plan: Are there enough staff to make it happen?

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This article was taken from: https://www.bbc.com/news/health-46782159 By Rachel Schraer and Ben Butcher BBC Reality Check When Prime Minister Theresa May promised an extra £20bn for NHS England by 2023, she set a condition – the health service had to draw up a long-term plan setting out how it would spend it. But unions say the plan, which includes aims to…

Uber offers NHS nurses free taxi rides this Christmas
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Uber offers NHS nurses free taxi rides this Christmas

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This article was taken from: https://www.nursingtimes.net/news/people/uber-offers-nhs-nurses-free-taxi-rides-this-christmas/7027090.article By Megan Ford at the Nursing Times NHS nurses in England will be able to access free taxi rides to and from work over the festive period. Using an official NHS email address, nurses can register to claim two £10 Uber codes to use when public transport is either closed…