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Nursing associate job ad calls for ‘registered nurse’ ability

An NHS trust has drawn criticism over a job advert for a nursing associate whose duties wo

13 Feb 2025
Patient death due partly to repositioning plan being ignored

Coroner's prevention of future deaths report says Cynthia Gilbert developed pressure

12 Feb 2025
Bill to legally protect ‘nurse’ job title clears first hurdle in parliament

A new bill to protect the ‘nurse’ job title by law has passed its first stage in Parliamen

11 Feb 2025
Struck off: hospital nurse jailed for stealing more than £100,000 from three patients

A nurse was struck off from the Nursing and Midwifery register for stealing £103,203 from

10 Feb 2025
Plan to close another nursing campus sparks further concern

Proposed closure of University of Wolverhampton’s Telford campus, which offers preregistra

06 Feb 2025
New push for legal protection of ‘nurse’ in job titles to protect patients

MP Dawn Butler is to introduce a bill that would make it illegal for individuals to c

05 Feb 2025

The convictions of former nurse Lucy Letby, serving life sentences for the murder and atte

04 Feb 2025
Top nursing school closure plan sparks alarm among students

Cardiff University’s highly ranked nursing school could close, raising fears about future

31 Jan 2025
Big rise in fitness to practise referrals is masking progress made on backlogs, says NMC

Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC) reports that fitness to practise (FtP) referrals are i

30 Jan 2025
Band 7-9 draft job profile updates ‘undervalue senior nurses’ expertise’

Newly updated NHS nursing job profiles for Agenda for Change bands 7, 8 and 9 do

29 Jan 2025
Man charged with murder of much loved nurse lecturer

A man has been charged with the murder of Claire Chick, a nursing lecturer at the Universi

27 Jan 2025
Patient death: prescription charts ‘not completed on 15 days’

Coroner tells Worcestershire Royal Hospital it must urgently improve its nurses’ awareness

23 Jan 2025

NHS staff including nurses may soon be able to choose from two pension b

21 Jan 2025

A nursing home nurse who performed ‘ineffective’ cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) on a w

20 Jan 2025

More than 5,000 nurses have shared distressing accounts of delivering care in corridors, to

16 Jan 2025

Nursing and Midwifery Council fitness to practise panel found Heather Hazzard failed t

14 Jan 2025

Nursing profession and others express shock and state that violence against healthcare staf

13 Jan 2025

Nurse leaders and a road safety charity express concerns about nurses driving hom

09 Jan 2025

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