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Nursing Live takes place at the ACC Liverpool on 23-24 October and will feature inspi

07 Oct 2024
NHS pay: delays to salary uplifts to end

Wes Streeting has triggered the NHS pay review process in a bid to get the pay award timin

01 Oct 2024
New nurses should begin their careers on band 6 – and more than £37,000 a year

Newly qualified nurses should start their careers on band 6 of the Agenda for Change pay s

30 Sep 2024
COVID-19 inquiry: nurses describe scenes ‘from hell’ on wards

Former national clinical adviser tells COVID-19 inquiry of the trauma experience

26 Sep 2024
Nurse understaffing raises risk of post-surgical pressure ulcers 

Nurse understaffing on surgical wards has been linked to a higher risk of pressure ulcers,

25 Sep 2024
5.5% pay rise isn’t enough: NHS staff tell union leaders they reject 2024-25 award

Nurses and support staff in England’s NHS tell their union, the RCN, in an online con

23 Sep 2024
From placements to Starbucks: newly registered nurses struggle to find NHS jobs 

Newly registered nurses (NRNs) are finding it difficult to secure NHS nursing jobs and are

20 Sep 2024
Number of students accepted onto nursing degree courses lowest in over a decade

Slump in degree course acceptances prompts call for urgent action on nursing student finan

19 Sep 2024
Tearful former chief nurse tells COVID inquiry of nursing staff’s struggles in pandemic

Former chief nurse tells COVID-19 inquiry abolition of NHS nursing student bursary was to

17 Sep 2024
Nurse who faced more than 100 charges struck off

Nursing and Midwifery Council fitness to practise (FtP) panel heard nurse X

16 Sep 2024
Recommended 5.5% pay rise approved for nurses in Wales

The Welsh Government’s acceptance of the Pay Review Body recommendation

11 Sep 2024
Toll of high-pressure court work means many nurses quit – or intend to

Learning disability nurses say demands of Court of Protection work is putting them under i

05 Sep 2024

RCN Foundation grant applications now open to help fund post-registration qualifi

27 Aug 2024

A large-scale study finds that using temporary staff to plug gaps does mitigate the ra

19 Aug 2024

RCN opens online consultation from today (8 August) until 16 September t

08 Aug 2024

Stark NMC report reveals 25% surge in number of nurses leaving the regis

18 Jul 2024

Nursing Live takes place at the ACC Liverpool on 23-24 October and will celebrate all thing

16 Jul 2024

Nursing union names its next general secretary as Nicola Ranger, who says new government mu

10 Jul 2024

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