Nursing standard (Royal College of Nursing (Great Britain) : 1987)
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A Labour government would recruit 20,000 extra nurses, which would include 10,000 more newly trained nurses. Other pledges include joined up services from home to hospital and introducing measures such as tackling stress and lifting morale to boost staff wellbeing, the party's leader Ed Miliband has said.
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Whistleblowers whose actions have been vindicated but have been bullied and victimised as a consequence of speaking out should be sought out and given an apology, MPs have said.
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The first private company to run a NHS hospital will appeal an inadequate rating given by the Care Quality Commission after branding the regulator's report 'unbalanced and misleading'.
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Unions have vowed to press ahead with a 12-hour strike this week after talks to resolve the pay dispute with health secretary Jeremy Hunt failed.