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The Prince of Wales Hospice is calling on the local community to support its critical ‘Sponsor a Nurse’ Appeal.

‘Sponsor a Nurse’ and help protect vital hospice patient care

Exemplar Health Care residents at the exhibition

Local care homes celebrate International Nurses Day with creative photo exhibiti...

Ruby Guild, Admiral Nurse at Dementia UK

Nationwide Wakefield to open free face-to-face dementia clinic in bank branch

Beka Naylor at work. The NHS nurse, from Doncaster, was recovering from cancer treatment at Sheffield's Northern General Hospital when her car was stolen from outside her home. Photo: Beka Naylor/SWNS

Video: Scumbag thief steals car of cancer patient during hospital stay

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Uber is offering free rides for NHS staff at Christmas - how to claim

Bruno the dog recovering after the surgery at Manchester PDSA Pet Hospital

Horrifying video shows puppy get 50cm toy arrow removed from stomach

Here are 8 top tips from our experts on how to stay healthy at Glastonbury Festival. (Photo: Leon Neal/Getty Images, NENAD MIHAJLOVIC/AFP via Getty Images)

How to stay well at Glastonbury and avoid these 8 common mishaps

Zak Nelson, 28, and Elliot Griffiths, 26 got engaged in their hospital beds after nurses reunited them in intensive care.

Watch: Car crash survivors get engaged in intensive care

Plans to build a block of flats above retail premises on Kirkgate, Wakefield, have been approved despite claims it will cause disruption for vulnerable patients and staff at a neighbouring brain injuries centre. Photo: Google

City centre flats plan approved despite objection by nearby brain injury unit

Video reveals gender stereotyping is still rife in children

Patients miss out on 1.8million days of care

Uber and Uber Eats offer NHS staff working over Christmas free food and travel

NHS workers can claim free travel at Christmas thanks to Uber

There are currently 7.75m people on NHS waiting lists across the country.

Breaking NHS waiting lists could reach 8m by next summer

A couple are suing Southern Regional Hospital after their son was ‘decapitated’ during birth

Couple sue doctor after newborn was ‘decapitated’ during delivery

A family statement confirmed Bryan Randall died after secretly battling Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis - Credit: Getty

Breaking Sandra Bullock's longtime partner dead at 57 after secret ALS battle

Jessy Williams with her daughter Sky

Mum has one of smallest babies ever born in UK - weighing 350g
A mum has given birth to one of the smallest babies ever born in the UK - weighing just 350g.
Sam Johnson

Aldi makes huge change to popular super 6 fruit & veg promotion - what’s new?

Aldi makes huge change to popular Super 6 fruit & veg promotion

Captain Sir Tom Moore to get his own biopic

New plans would allow more doctors and nurses to receive their training "on the job" rather than via the traditional university route.

Breaking Student doctors told to skip university to solve the NHS staff crisis

Breaking Nurses to vote on England-wide strikes after rejecting 5% pay rise

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Breaking Health unions back new pay offer for millions of NHS staff

Strike will continue until close to midnight today May 1.

Breaking Nurses strike continues: Major disruption for NHS services in England

World-renowned London children’s hospital has called for exemptions for emergency care ahead of nurses’ strike. (Photo by Guy Smallman/Getty Images)

Breaking Great Ormond Street Hospital declares ‘incident’ amid nurses’ strike

The RCN strike will be cut short after the high court ruled it “partly unlawful.”

Breaking Next week’s nurses’ strike ruled ‘partly unlawful’

Breaking Midwives in England vote to accept government pay offer

Strictly Come Dancing judges Shirley Ballas, Motsi Mabuse, Craig Revel Horwood and Anton Du Beke are will stay for another series of the BBC show

Strictly Come Dancing judge comments on pay row rumours

New figures obtained by Labour through a Freedom of Information request revealed patients are being forced to wait up to an hour and a half for 999 calls to be answered.

Patients wait an hour and a half for 999 calls to be answered
New figures obtained by Labour through a Freedom of Information request revealed patients are being forced to wait up to an hour and a half for 999 calls to be answered.
Rahmah Ghazali

A Royal College of Nursing picket line as staff strike outside a hospital.

RCN nursing staff to vote on new NHS pay offer

A host of new characters including the son of The Chase host Bradley Wash and a fan-favourite from BBC’s Holby City - Credit: BBC

Breaking New characters coming to Casualty - including Bradley Walsh’s son

Teachers are among just one of the many professions striking

Who is striking and when in 2023?

Nursing strikes 2023: Royal College of Nursing, the GMB & Unison back new pay offer - but it’s not over yet

Breaking Nursing strikes 2023: Unions back pay offer - but it’s not over yet

Rail workers will stage a series of fresh strikes in March and April (Photo: Getty Images)

Strike action taking place in March 2023 in the UK - including NEU

Sir Rod Stewart poses for photos with members of staff at the Princess Alexandra Hospital in Harlow, Essex

Sir Rod Stewart backs NHS wage rise and pays for patient scans

RCN nurses suspend next week’s strike and enter pay negotiations

The Royal College of Nursing have announced their biggest strikes to date.

Rail workers, postal workers and nurses all announce new strike dates

Nurses to stage 48-hour strike next month including A&E workers

MPs have been given a 2.9% pay rise, starting from April 1.

MPs to get 2.9% pay rise, taking salaries to over £86,000

Who is striking in February 2023? Full list of all industrial action

Queuing ambulances. Photo: James Hardisty

Yvette Cooper MP: We need to start rebuilding our NHS

Tory MP says NHS nurses using food banks should ‘budget better’

Members of the Royal College of Nursing (RCN) on the picket line outside St Thomas' Hospital, central London. Continued strike action plus winter pressures are jeopardising the ability of the NHS to break out of a "vicious cycle", a health leader has said. Issue date: Wednesday January 18, 2023.

Strikes 2023: Nursing staff at 55 NHS trusts in England walk out

EIS Union teachers on the picket line (Pic: John Devlin)

Over 450,000 working days were lost to strike action in November

Love Island series 9 contestant Olivia Hawkins was a stunt double in the show Brassic which has many links to Chorley.

Meet the Love Island contestant who worked on No Time to Die

Nurses and supporters gather outside University College Hospital before marching to Downing Street after a day of strike action on December 20 2022 in London. (Photo by Dan Kitwood/Getty Images)

Nurses’ strike in February will be ‘twice as big’, union leaders warn

Foodbank on Ward 10 at Walsall Manor Hospital with Claire Cooper, Senior Sister.

Hospitals forced to open food banks for their own staff

Pro-wrestler blasts Rishi Sunak over nurses strike at Tokyo Dome

NHS staff at UK hospital told to repay Christmas bonuses paid in error

A queue of ambulances are seen outside the Royal London Hospital emergency department on November 24, 2022. That week, nearly three in 10 ambulances were queuing outside hospitals in England.

‘Critical incidents’ declared at 8 hospital and ambulance trusts

No NHS trusts in Sussex will take part in strikes (Photo by JUSTIN TALLIS/AFP via Getty Images)

Second day of nurse strikes over pay and conditions begins

The Royal College of Nursing is due to take strike action for the first time in its history (Picture: Christopher Furlong/Getty Images)

Tens of thousands of nurses start strike action today

Summary of all strikes taking place in Sussex this month (Photo by JUSTIN TALLIS/AFP via Getty Images)

Nursing strikes to go ahead this week after pay talks fail

Nurses, paramedics and driving examiners to strike this winter

Nurses vote to strike across UK in huge industrial action over pay

Neil Brown (Deputy Director of Operations for Surgery), Rebecca Saville (Assistant Director of Nursing for the Division of Surgery) and Richard Bunn (Safeguarding Matron for Complex Needs).

Local health trust wins learning disability title at national awards

A nurse (library pic)

Nurse who sold crack cocaine is struck off

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