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No COVID jab, no job: sacked staff deserve their jobs back, without legal wrangle

Nursing staff penalised by COVID-19 vaccine mandate should get compensation and their

01 Feb 2022
COVID-19 jab no longer mandatory for front-line nurses as government announces U-turn

COVID-19 vaccination won’t be a condition of employment in health and c

31 Jan 2022
U-turn expected on mandatory vaccinations for nurses and other front-line staff: reports

Milder Omicron and worries over staff shortage convince government to p

31 Jan 2022
Thinly-spread nurses need to know a viable plan to boost their numbers is on its way

Fully-funded nurse workforce strategy for England should be ministers’ urgent priority as

31 Jan 2022
Left in FtP limbo: NMC pledges to cut the agonising waits that can blight nurses’ lives

Nurses facing torment of fitness to practise proceedings can feel left in limbo for years

27 Jan 2022
Nurses up to £3,600 worse off as wages fail to keep up with inflation over past decade

Analysis by Nursing Standard shows dramatic disparity when comparing cu

27 Jan 2022

Employers complain that the process is too slow, but regulator pledges to expand capacity

26 Jan 2022
Mandatory COVID-19 vaccination: we’ll keep reviewing the rules, says minister

Health and social care secretary Sajid Javid insists COVID-19 policy will respond to new C

26 Jan 2022

Nursing and Midwifery Council removed nurses who have misled the regulator in past five ye

25 Jan 2022
Alarming shortage of specialist nurses seen at paediatric intensive care units – report

Lack of specialist nurses meant only one paediatric intensive care unit

25 Jan 2022
RCN Nursing Awards 2022, a chance to showcase practice that makes a difference, now open

Categories cover the diversity of nursing, with RCN Nurse of the Year t

24 Jan 2022
Compulsory vaccination: NHS staff protest in Trafalgar Square over mandatory COVID jabs

NHS nurses march in London ahead of mandatory deadline for COVID-19 vaccination that means

24 Jan 2022

Unions give evidence to NHS pay review body, and demand action from ministers on pay to hel

24 Jan 2022

A fifth of more than 800 calls to Our Frontline support service made during pandemic

24 Jan 2022

Staff and patients in acute and community services could see weeks of disruption as trust s

21 Jan 2022

Nurses remain under intense pressure with absence from work still high, and no prospect of

20 Jan 2022

Additional payment for pandemic work is welcomed by staff, but the RCN wants to see ‘meanin

20 Jan 2022

Rebecca Logan tells MPs she relocated in the hope she ‘can be believed and treated’

20 Jan 2022

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