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Reducing the environmental impact of healthcare as part of wider work to tackle the climate crisis needs to be a major priority for the next government. That’s why the next chapter of our Manifesto by Nurses is focusing on the issue of sustainability in health and social care. Our manifesto…
Recent news of the UK Government’s 50,000 additional nurses target being met, and record numbers of nurses working for the NHS, were welcomed – but the staffing crisis is not fixed. Without a healthy number of nursing and midwifery students, there is no future workforce and nurse student numbers are…
The next chapter of our Manifesto by Nurses will focus on public health. We want to know your ideas for how the next UK Government can prevent future pandemics and infectious disease outbreaks and more generally help people to stay healthy for longer. For example, what can be done to…
The nursing profession, and the UK as a whole, celebrated the history of the NHS last year on its 75th birthday. However, enthusiasm for the health service’s past is matched by uncertainty about what its future will look like. An ageing population, climate pressures and many other factors are all…
What can the next government do to protect and improve nurse education and support for student nurses? Nursing Times wants to hear your ideas for the next chapter of our Manifesto by Nurses, which we have been building since November 2023. The finished manifesto will be delivered to the parties…
Nursing Times is launching its next appeal for participation from nursing staff and students in building an election manifesto by nurses. Our next topic is the future of the NHS and what politicians can do to protect it going forward, which we will be focusing on during December. Your responses…
Better pay, more support for staff and student wellbeing, and further investment in professional development are among the pledges nurses want to see included in a political manifesto to address workforce issues in the profession. Nursing staff and students have shared their views for the first chapter of the Manifesto…
Recent by-election results around the UK have indicated what opinion polls have been repeatedly showing for some time now; for the first time since 2010, we are on course for a change in government. For nurses around the country, and the millions who rely on their care, change can’t come…
As the next general election approaches, Nursing Times is going to be reaching out to nursing professionals for your views on what the political parties should be including in their manifestos. We will be asking for your ideas on what can be done to address the biggest issues in nursing…
