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Nurses express anger over overseas recruitment plan on social media

Many express anger that money is being spent on international scheme rather than impr

30 Sep 2022
Nurses leaving the health service for better paid jobs in shops and bars

Research by NHS Providers reveals that two thirds of trusts are reporting a severe effect

30 Sep 2022
Government extends temporary nursing register for a further two years

Health and social care secretary Thérèse Coffey has announced that nurses on the register

28 Sep 2022

Nursing and Midwifery Council green-lights changes to testing that had been criticised for

28 Sep 2022
Racism against nurses: care home employee speaks out following hours of abuse

Care home nurse Beverly Simpson was subjected to racist slurs by a patient during a night

28 Sep 2022

Professional Standards Authority’s 2021-22 review found regulator met 17 of the 18 standar

27 Sep 2022
Now give nurses a proper pay rise: tax cut for highest earners prompts backlash

Pay rise for nurses that matches inflation now seen as a ‘political cho

27 Sep 2022

One NHS employee told campaign group they were ‘down to one meal a day’, and GMB unio

26 Sep 2022
Mini-budget: ‘Billions to bankers and nothing to nurses’

Nursing unions slam chancellor of the exchequer Kwasi Kwarteng’s priorities as mini-budget

23 Sep 2022

Thérèse Coffey’s plans to get the NHS through a difficult winter was heavily criticised on

23 Sep 2022
NMC to consider proposed changes to English language requirements for overseas nurses

Revamp would make it easier for overseas staff to join register and coincides with plan to

22 Sep 2022

Thérèse Coffey’s proposal includes support for GPs and a call for more volunteers, but cri

22 Sep 2022

NHS Confederation warns that without better pay and investment, social care will impac

22 Sep 2022

With nurses in the UK to be balloted on potential strike action, a legal challenge has been

21 Sep 2022

Some bereaved families have received £60,000 payouts but others could lo

21 Sep 2022

Labour MP Dame Margaret Hodge made the comparison after reports that chancellor Kwasi Kwart

21 Sep 2022

Nurses say they felt honoured to represent the profession at funeral for

20 Sep 2022

A postal vote, delayed due to the death of Queen Elizabeth II, will now open on 6 October,

16 Sep 2022

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