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Nurse vacancies drop below 1,000
The number of nursing vacancies has plunged to fewer than 1,000 across the entire country, figures collated by Nursing Times reveal.
GPs to inherit acute overspends
GPs are set to inherit acute sector overspending of up to half a billion pounds and will have to grapple with widespread miscoding of hospital procedures, a Pulse investigation reveals.
Education leaders should join those in health and social care to strengthen communities
Health and wellbeing boards could provide a way for leaders of different services to work together to push through real transformation of public services, says Anita Higham
Poor morale and job cuts threaten NHS reform, says RCN
Nurse leaders will warn this week that poor morale and job cuts threaten to derail the government's reform programme of the NHS in England.
Sickest patients are being neglected as doctors focus on waiting list targets
The most seriously ill patients in the NHS have become the victims of “neglect” as surgeons are forced to focus on hitting waiting list targets for pre-planned operations, leading emergency doctors warn.
