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<title>Maternity leave cover &#x27;good for staff and employers&#x27;</title>
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<title>Consultants need more support, BMA says</title>
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<title>Junior doctor crisis was handled badly, say MPs</title>
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<title>Administrative support &#x27;will improve patient care quality&#x27;</title>
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<description>Nurses are spending too much time completing their paperwork and they need more help from administrators, it has been suggested... </description>
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<title>Specialist nurses &#x27;have fears about job losses&#x27;</title>
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<description>There is a concern among specialist nurses working for the NHS that their jobs could be cut, according to new research... </description>
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<pubDate>Tue, 15 Apr 2008 16:00:01 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Abuse on NHS staff is &#x22;unacceptable&#x22;</title>
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<description>The number of NHS staff who receive abuse from their patients is &#x22;unacceptable&#x22;, one MP has remarked... </description>
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<title>Drop-out nurses &#x27;cost taxpayer &#xC2;&#xA3;98m&#x27;</title>
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<description>The number of student nurses dropping out halfway through their undergraduate course is costing taxpayers 98 million, it has been suggested... </description>
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<title>Nurses&#x27; pay deal welcomed</title>
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<title>Physiotherapists &#x27;struggle to find work&#x27;</title>
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<pubDate>Tue, 08 Apr 2008 12:00:01 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Vacancies mean doctors are &#x27;pressured to work overtime&#x27;</title>
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<pubDate>Tue, 01 Apr 2008 12:00:02 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Health professionals &#x27;left without jobs&#x27;</title>
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<pubDate>Thu, 20 Mar 2008 12:00:01 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>National medical exam will ensure &#x27;doctor quality&#x27;</title>
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<pubDate>Thu, 21 Feb 2008 11:56:57 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Government: NHS training places for UK students only</title>
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<pubDate>Fri, 08 Feb 2008 11:59:24 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Debt &#x27;worsens&#x27; for student nurses</title>
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<title>Junior doctors to face more competition</title>
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<pubDate>Fri, 16 Nov 2007 12:57:59 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Government pledges to help NHS abuse</title>
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<title>NHS pension changes welcomed by GMB</title>
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<pubDate>Fri, 25 May 2007 18:02:22 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>New recruitment scheme welcomed by NHS employers</title>
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<title>Call for end to manual lifting of patients</title>
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<title>NHS staff to be screened for blood-borne viruses </title>
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<description>Guidelines to help the NHS when screening new employees for blood-borne viruses have been published by the Department of Health... </description>
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<pubDate>Thu, 22 Mar 2007 18:16:09 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>NHS productivity needs to be increased </title>
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<pubDate>Fri, 16 Feb 2007 18:11:34 GMT</pubDate>
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<pubDate>Mon, 15 Jan 2007 18:07:18 GMT</pubDate>
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<pubDate>Thu, 11 Jan 2007 18:06:47 GMT</pubDate>
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<pubDate>Tue, 05 Sep 2006 18:00:33 GMT</pubDate>
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