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COVID-19: what will the lifting of Plan B restrictions mean for nurses?

Mandatory mask-wearing and other measures will end on 26 January, but the RCN says this wi

19 Jan 2022
Nurse tells of ‘insurmountable’ pressure to get jab or lose job

From 1 April, all patient-facing NHS staff must have had both COVID-19 vaccine doses

19 Jan 2022
NHS pensioners who returned to practice in pandemic are to lose financial incentive

Expiry of emergency measures to attract retired nurses back to practice could soon mean be

18 Jan 2022
Compulsory COVID-19 jabs for nurses: stark rules on redeployment or dismissal set out

NHS England sets out guidance for employers to redeploy or fire patient

18 Jan 2022

College says Scottish Government announcement implies students on clinical placements

17 Jan 2022
Shorter self-isolation time gets you back to work sooner – but is it worth extra risk?

COVID-19 rule change designed to ease nurse staffing crisis as NHS and social care service

17 Jan 2022
PPE for COVID-19: free provision is extended to next year

NHS and social care staff will continue to be given PPE, as RCN says nurses should never a

14 Jan 2022

Isolation period for people testing positive in England reduced to five days from 17 Janua

13 Jan 2022
Mandatory vaccinations for nurses would be ‘sabotage’ amid staffing pressures, says RCN

College joins demands for delay in making COVID-19 vaccinations compulsory for front-line

13 Jan 2022

English National Ballet’s show centres on a woman who becomes a nurse during the Crim

13 Jan 2022
Nurses condemn Boris Johnson over lockdown party in Downing Street

Prime minister apologises for lockdown party as outraged nurses who wer

12 Jan 2022

Charity warns rise in infections could coincide with surge in COVID-19 infections

12 Jan 2022

Health service turns to independent providers for extra bed, surgery and diagnostics capaci

11 Jan 2022

Asymptomatic nurses won’t need PCR test in move to ease staff absences,

11 Jan 2022

Nurses on Twitter share reasons for being vaccinated and encourage other

11 Jan 2022

The government is under pressure to clarify when it will scale down the testing system

10 Jan 2022

Compulsory COVID vaccination from April would be bad timing for NHS services amid soaring a

10 Jan 2022

COVID-related nursing staff absence – against backdrop of chronic nurse shortage – forces s

07 Jan 2022

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