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Cervical screening for staff: how a nurse is boosting uptake among her own colleagues

Nurse shares her tips on how to set up a screening for colleagues after success screening

15 Mar 2022

Over-stretched staff tell RCN meeting in Northern Ireland that acutely unwell patients are

14 Mar 2022
Virtual placements for overseas students could help ease their transition to UK practice

Nursing students to be offered Coventry University module based on NMC standards of profic

14 Mar 2022
Vigilance against sepsis affected by pandemic, charity warns

UK Sepsis Trust says swift sepsis diagnosis and treatment has been hamp

11 Mar 2022

Nurses share experiences of the first waves two years after WHO declared COVID-19 a pandem

11 Mar 2022
NHS pay: below-inflation rise (aka real-terms pay cut) ‘highly likely’

Real-terms pay cut ‘highly likely’ in face of competing demands on NHS budgets and other p

10 Mar 2022

Researchers find wide variation in hours worked between NHS trusts, and say flexibility is

10 Mar 2022

Specialist posts to be funded by yearly £1 million investment for each health board in Wal

10 Mar 2022
Racism in the NHS: heartfelt plea by veteran nurse

Comments by retired nurse Zeba Arif, who ran cultural awareness courses

09 Mar 2022
NHS pay: unions accuse RCN of weakening their negotiating position on 2022-23 pay award

College accused of undermining unions’ joint negotiating position for 2022-23 pa

09 Mar 2022

Lib Dem Lord Willis challenged health department’s 50,000 Nurse Progress report

08 Mar 2022
Nurse struck off for medication errors and failing to show any insight or remorse

Charge included issuing controlled drugs with no checker present, aggra

08 Mar 2022

Stark warning from RCN as it tells NHS pay review body that only a substantial increase in

08 Mar 2022

But unions demand fair pay for nurses and a transparent health and care workforce strategy,

07 Mar 2022

RCN says government must ‘accept full accountability’ for resolving staffing crisis, as Hou

04 Mar 2022

Poor pay, increasing paperwork and less time for patient care are factors in chronic staff

04 Mar 2022

Government message follows scrapping of mandatory jabs for front-line health and care staff

03 Mar 2022

Nurses’ initiative sees outpouring of community support, with lo

02 Mar 2022

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