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Heat exhaustion advice page on NHS website sees spike in visits during hot spell

With temperatures up to 33C possible over the weekend, the UK Health Security Agency has issued an Amber Heat Health Alert across most of the country.

The Independent UK

Edward and Sophie to attend service to mark 75 years of the NHS

Health workers and royalty will rub shoulders at the service in Westminster Abbey.

The Independent UK

Andy Murray urges people to take part in parkrun to mark NHS’s 75th birthday

Tens of thousands of people from across the UK are expected to take part in the parkrun on Saturday July 8 and the junior parkrun on Sunday July 9.

The Independent UK

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Collecting MBE ‘very special’, Coronation Street star Helen Worth says

England’s chief nurse Ruth May also receive honours from William.

The Independent UK

City organisation given £190,000 to help improve women's health in the workplace

It has vowed to find ways to work with women and employers to offer an opportunity to positively transform women's working lives

Liverpool Echo

England’s chief nursing officer Ruth May offers support to striking nurses

Health Secretary Steve Barclay said Dame Ruth’s support of nurses is ‘absolutely right’ but Downing Street said she does not speak for the Government.

The Independent UK

Government cannot ‘sit back’ on strikes amid warning pay rows will worsen, NHS leaders say

‘The government cannot just sit back and let future strikes happen when patient care is on the line,’ says Matthew Taylor

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Nurses will step up strikes unless pay offer improved, NHS official warns

NHS Employers boss says strikes next month likely to be for longer and to affect more trusts if dispute continues

The Guardian - UK

Emergency cancer services will be protected when nurses go on strike

The RCN have agreed exemptions to the upcoming strike

Manchester Evening News

Hospitals warn of SEVEN hour waits as ambulances queue outside stretched A&E departments

Some patients claimed they were given a six-hour waiting time for an MRI, while over 150 people were reportedly waiting to be triaged at Manchester Royal Infirmary this afternoon

Daily Mirror

NHS recruitment drive for thousands of nurses amid record staff vacancies

The We Are The NHS campaign spotlights the varied NHS nursing roles on offer and patients who tell of how nurses helped them towards recovery.

The Independent UK

Rookie nurses can't afford clothes or food as they suffer £3,800 pay cut in 15 years

Research has revealed newly-qualified nurses will struggle to pay for clothes or food from April after suffering a £3,800 real terms pay cut over the past 15 years

Daily Mirror

Slump in nursing course acceptances will worsen staffing crisis – union boss

There are 21,130 accepted applicants onto nursing courses this year compared with 22,690 last year, the RCN said.

The Independent UK

Nurses 'banned from drinking water or using fans' on hospital wards despite heatwave

Several nursing staff have reported their clinical areas have already hit a blistering 40C, with some senior managers wrongly believing drinking in these areas poses an infection risk

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Nurses top UK poll on who makes biggest contribution to society

Doctors, teachers, scientists and engineers all beaten in survey for Royal College of Nursing

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