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Every major hospital would analyse scans using AI under Labour plans to double NHS diagnostic capacity and cut heart deaths by one quarter, the shadow health secretary pledged on Sunday.

Shadow health secretary pledges to double NHS diagnostic capacity and cut heart deaths by one quarter under plans to learn from Australia

Find out more about a new Nursing Times survey on the subject of preceptorship for newly registered nurses including how to take part.

While number of nurses and midwives are up regulator says there is a worrying rise in recruits from places like Nigeria, Ghana and Zambia, where the NHS is banned from poaching workers.

The government is today celebrating the recruitment of over 50,000 more nurses, but figures show the total only includes 361 additional GPNs.

Some 748,528 nurses are now registered to work in the UK.

There are a record 808,488 nurses, midwives and nursing associates eligible to practise in the UK, according to new data released by the NMC.

It marks the largest ever sustained growth in the NHS nursing workforce, with the expanded workforce delivering hundreds of thousands of extra appointments

The government has reached its target of 50,000 extra registered nurses in England early, but concerns remain from nurse leaders. Read more.

The high numbers were partly accounted for by the fact just over half (15,067) of these new joiners were educated in the UK.