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NHS workforce plan: can it boost nurse numbers without proper focus on retention?

Despite pledge for significant increases to nurse training places, the NHS Long Term Workf

30 Jun 2023
How empty student accommodation is being turned over for use by NHS nurses

Accommodation is essential to help trust recruit and retain nurses, many of them from over

30 Jun 2023
Lucy Letby: claim of targeted attack on baby boy ‘completely unrealistic’

Accused nurse’s defence barrister tells trial jury in his closing address there is no evid

29 Jun 2023

RCN survey finds two-thirds of nursing students have considered leaving their course due t

29 Jun 2023
Welcome to the UK: trusts join forces to help nurses from overseas settle in

Support package is designed to ease foreign nurses’ transition to working and living in th

29 Jun 2023
‘Shocked, angry and deflated’: nurses react to ballot after losing strike mandate

Social media posts show a profession let down by punitive trade union laws – and a continu

28 Jun 2023

The poet and broadcaster will discuss his near-fatal COVID-19 experience and the care he r

28 Jun 2023
Lucy Letby: defence sums up by rounding on ‘poor’ scientific evidence

Nurse’s barrister tells murder trial jury the research paper used by the prosecution

28 Jun 2023
Thousands of nurses who voted to carry on striking blocked by ballot turnout rules

Large majority of nurses in RCN ballot voted to push ahead with further walkouts, but numb

27 Jun 2023
Summer strikes paused as fresh talks agreed – but pay off the table

July strikes have been paused as Welsh Government agrees to discuss the non-pay elements o

27 Jun 2023

RCN’s Rose Gallagher also tells UK COVID-19 Inquiry that government failed to consult nurs

27 Jun 2023
UK struggles to keep its nurses as emigration fuels ‘strikingly low’ workforce numbers

Far more nurses educated in the UK move to practise in Australia and New Zealand than the

26 Jun 2023

Poor working conditions and corridor care are driving some registered nurses to take l

26 Jun 2023

RCN members vent their frustration on social media at papers not received or received too l

23 Jun 2023

The proposed changes that would protect striking nurses from the threat of the sack were re

22 Jun 2023

Inconsistent records, a text and internet searches show the accused nurse lied about Child

22 Jun 2023

Anti-racism policies will have limited impact if cultural racism is not addressed among sen

22 Jun 2023

Health secretary Steve Barclay says ‘we need to grow our domestic supply’ to cut over-relia

21 Jun 2023

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