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NHS pay ballot: have nurses moved one step closer to taking industrial action?

Will resounding RCN ballot result move nurses one step closer to industrial action vote, a

15 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
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
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
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
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
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
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
Impending vaccine mandate is not what under-pressure NHS staff need, ministers told

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

10 Jan 2022
Pay: top CEOs earn more than 100 times the salary of the average nurse

Unions say there is ‘something fundamentally wrong with British society’ following the pub

07 Jan 2022
Loneliness and mental health struggles at Christmas: staff urged to seek support

For nurses, winter pressures, shift schedules and workloads c

13 Dec 2021

A team from Nottingham Trent University is designing safer, more comfort

09 Dec 2021

Occupational health nurse Toyin Oladotun administered COVID-19 vaccine for two months befor

08 Dec 2021

Promotional videos show newly qualified nurses talking of pride in their new career

07 Dec 2021

Front-line healthcare workers facing greater pressure with expansion of

02 Dec 2021

RCN and Unison say the government pushing back a decision on next year’s pay offer for

01 Dec 2021

DHSC told to show benefits of mandatory jabs are proportionate to expect

30 Nov 2021

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