New nurses are being recruited by a hospital in Wales after it was forced to close on several occasions due to staff shortages.

The BBC reports that Neath Port Talbot Hospital, which runs a 24-hour local accident centre, had problems due to a lack of doctors.

However, the new...

Last year's junior doctor crisis is mainly the fault of the government, a new report has suggested.

Many UK medical students were left without NHS training positions as competition for the places increases each year and foreign graduates also applied for the posts.

However, the...

NHS nurses need more clerical support as they are spending too much time doing tasks that could be carried out by administrators, the Recruitment and Employment Confederation (REC) has said.

According to Peter Cullimore, chair of the REC's Nursing and Social Care Sector Group, the support...

A registered nurse has been cautioned after being found guilty of inappropriate behaviour towards a patient in her care.

The Nursing and Midwifery Council made the decision after hearing that Sherril Gurley, employed as a staff nurse at Basildon University Hospital in 2006, had made...

Even though the NHS is predicted to have a £2 billion surplus, some specialist nurses in Britain still fear they could be made redundant, a new poll reveals.

A survey by the Royal College of Nursing (RCN) discovered that one in five nurses who specialise in areas such as diabetes and...