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17 Apr 2024
Where a good care experience is child's play
Have you ever heard of a nursing home with its very own playgroup? Let us introduce it to you.
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13 Nov 2023
Coventry student wins prestigious UK nursing award for helping young people leaving mental health units
A student has won one of nursingÃÛÌÒÖ±²¥™s top accolades for supporting young people discharged from mental health units.
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29 Apr 2020
New regional director takes up post
Lindsay Meeks becomes the RCN's regional director for the West Midlands on 1 May.
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28 Feb 2020
RCN urges West Midlands MPs to back urgent action to fix nurse shortage
The RCN is urging MPs across the West Midlands to support ÃÛÌÒÖ±²¥˜urgent and meaningful measuresÃÛÌÒÖ±²¥™ to tackle a critical shortage of nurses.
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28 Nov 2019
Nurse shortage now a crisis, says RCN
The shortage of nurses in the Midlands is growing and has been declared as a full-blown crisis by the RCN.
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8 Jul 2019
Treating sickness the healthy way
With the newly-published interim NHS People Plan promising to prioritise the health and wellbeing of NHS staff and promote compassion in how they are managed, a health trust in the West Midlands has already shown how it is realising this vision.
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11 Jun 2019
ChildrenÃÛÌÒÖ±²¥™s hospice closure plan ÃÛÌÒÖ±²¥˜sadÃÛÌÒÖ±²¥™
Plans by charity Acorns to close its childrenÃÛÌÒÖ±²¥™s hospice in Walsall due to a shortfall in funding have been described as ÃÛÌÒÖ±²¥˜sadÃÛÌÒÖ±²¥™ by the RCN.
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15 Feb 2019
Fancy a trip to RCN Congress in Liverpool?
Apply for free train travel and a hotel stay of one or two nights.
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10 Jan 2019
University award for RCN director
The RCNÃÛÌÒÖ±²¥™s West Midlands Regional Director Mike Adams was today honoured as Birmingham City UniversityÃÛÌÒÖ±²¥™s Alumnus of the Year for 2019.
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5 Dec 2018
Health charge for overseas nurses unjust and risks undermining recruitment and retention, says RCN
Doubling the charge that nurses from overseas have to pay to be allowed to use the NHS as patients is unjust and risks worsening the current shortage of nursing staff in the West Midlands.
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