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Nurses are crucial part of Labour Party’s £1.1 billion plan to cut NHS waiting lists

Nurses will be able to volunteer for extra paid shifts at evenings and weekends and proced

10 Oct 2023
Nurse was fairly dismissed after refusing to work weekend shifts, rules second tribunal

The nurse, who has two children with disabilities, was sacked after saying no to working w

09 Oct 2023
NMC under external investigation over claims about its governance and ‘toxic culture’

Nurse regulator to be scrutinised by Charity Commission after newspaper revealed an intern

06 Oct 2023
Hike in visa fees poses new threat to nurse retention, warns RCN

RCN warns home secretary Suella Braverman that ‘unaffordable’ visa fees will price vital o

06 Oct 2023
Stroke unit nurse found guilty of drugging patients ‘to keep them quiet and compliant’

Stroke unit nurse Catherine Hudson was remanded in custody following her conviction, and t

05 Oct 2023
Nurse awarded medal for her bravery in Co-op knife attack

Lisa Way was presented with the Queen’s Gallantry Medal after she and two others tried to

05 Oct 2023
NHS strike is about politics, not concern for patients, PM tells Tory faithful

Rishi Sunak condemns timing of nurses’ latest industrial action over pay and staffing – bu

05 Oct 2023

Cheshire Constabulary will ‘consider areas including senior leadership and decision-making

04 Oct 2023
New anti-racism award launched after nurse’s landmark tribunal

Michelle Cox has teamed up with the RCN Foundation to award an annual grant to support nur

04 Oct 2023
Scale of NHS nurse sickness absence due to mental ill health points to extent of burnout

NHS sickness absence data reveal cost to nurses’ mental health of workload pressures at a

03 Oct 2023
Nurses fear they will be forced to quit if hospital nursery closure goes ahead

A petition to save a London NHS trust's nursery has been launched as nurses fear its closu

03 Oct 2023
Flexible working: some nurses can now gain early access to pension without leaving NHS

Nurses with a 1995 legacy pension will now be able to access some or all of their pension

02 Oct 2023

The options in England’s new national uniform range have been described as ‘too n

29 Sep 2023

RCN report also shows nursing staff work a total of 69,877 additional hours every week, and

29 Sep 2023

‘Leaky training pipeline’ of students and newly qualified staff is faili

28 Sep 2023

The eclectic nursing programme covers masterclasses, clinical demonstrations, careers advic

28 Sep 2023

Whistleblower alleges ‘deep-seated toxic conduct’ within NMC that delays or skews fitness t

27 Sep 2023

Holly Turner criticises Tory MP Mark Jenkinson for twisting her words on BBC’s Question Tim

27 Sep 2023

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