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Number of students accepted onto nursing degree courses lowest in over a decade

Slump in degree course acceptances prompts call for urgent action on nursing student finan

19 Sep 2024
Tearful former chief nurse tells COVID inquiry of nursing staff’s struggles in pandemic

Former chief nurse tells COVID-19 inquiry abolition of NHS nursing student bursary was to

17 Sep 2024
Nurse who faced more than 100 charges struck off

Nursing and Midwifery Council fitness to practise (FtP) panel heard nurse X

16 Sep 2024
Sepsis treatment: answers to 10 questions could unlock breakthrough for outcomes

Sepsis top 10 research priorities list includes diagnostics, better use of antibiotics and

13 Sep 2024
Recommended 5.5% pay rise approved for nurses in Wales

The Welsh Government’s acceptance of the Pay Review Body recommendation

11 Sep 2024
Nurse used funds from patient activity budget to pay for staff party

Mental health nurse Marcia Harding, who was trying to raise staff moral

04 Sep 2024
Nursing job profiles: nurses won’t know review outcome until 2025

Band 4-6 role profiles review to be published at the start of next year following further

03 Sep 2024
Band 8 revamp boosts incentive for nurses to take the step up

Changes to Agenda for Change band 8 pay scale mean nurses in senior leadership r

02 Sep 2024
Develop your career or help fund your degree with an RCN Foundation grant

RCN Foundation grant applications now open to help fund post-registration qualif

27 Aug 2024
Nurses in Scotland to vote on latest pay offer: will it be enough?

The Scottish Government has made a 5.5% pay offer to NHS healthcare staff on Agenda for Ch

21 Aug 2024

Nurse Ian O’Connor has been handed a 12-month suspension order by the Nursing and Midwifer

20 Aug 2024
Patient deaths remain raised when temporary nurses plug staffing gaps

A large-scale study finds that using temporary staff to plug gaps does mitigate the r

19 Aug 2024

UK nursing student enrolments on to nursing degrees courses are down, as a nursing academic

15 Aug 2024

Statue of pioneering black nurse Mary Seacole outside St Thomas’ Hospital in London is&nbsp

14 Aug 2024

RCN opens online consultation from today (8 August) until 16 September t

08 Aug 2024

Updated RCN guidance states staff may withdraw care where they feel threatened, but only af

07 Aug 2024

Denise Balanza falsely claimed pay for ten shifts after facing ‘financial pressures’ a Nurs

06 Aug 2024

Terrified Filipino nurses were pelted with stones as they travelled to w

05 Aug 2024

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