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Lack of on-site changing forces nurses to wash uniforms at home despite infection risk

A study reveals that nurses and healthcare staff are unable to wash their uniforms to NHS

03 Feb 2022
Nurses vent fury over revelations in Sue Gray report on Downing Street lockdown parties

Nurses react to report on Downing St parties, saying Boris Johnson and

02 Feb 2022
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
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

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

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

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

19 Jan 2022

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

19 Jan 2022

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