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Your employment rights: changes to carer’s leave, pregnancy rules and flexible working

Time off for nurses helping dependants now a legal right, redundancy protection extended i

12 Apr 2024
Compensation for charge nurse told she had to stop solely working night shifts

A nurse was awarded more than £22,000 by a tribunal after NHS managers refused to let her

10 Apr 2024
Sexual harassment faced by hundreds of NHS staff goes unreported

Incidents range from crude banter to being touched or kissed and demand

09 Apr 2024

RCN head Pat Cullen wants pay bandings to be overhauled to 'give nursing a fresh start' in

08 Apr 2024
Separate pay spine for nurses: decision draws a step closer

Nurses, unions, employers and other NHS staff urged to submit their views by midnight on 4

04 Apr 2024
Nurse fitness to practise referrals soar amid high case backlog

NMC pledges £30 million to tackle disciplinary backlog, but campai

03 Apr 2024
Groundbreaking safe staffing law now in force for nurses in Scotland

All Scottish health and care settings must ensure enough qualified nurses, midwives and me

02 Apr 2024
NMC closes temporary register set up during COVID-19 crisis

Temporary register encouraged thousands to return to nursing during pan

01 Apr 2024

Regulator says introduction recognises the positive difference nursing associates can

28 Mar 2024

Two nurses have been removed from the register after Nursing and Midwifery Council found e

27 Mar 2024

NMC fitness to practise panel found that nurse had breached the code of professional behav

26 Mar 2024
Nurses reject pay offer as it falls short of giving them parity

Nurses in Northern Ireland refuse deal that fails to bring them in line

25 Mar 2024

Scottish NHS trust introduces purple tunic for advanced nurse practitioners in new uniform

22 Mar 2024

Health minister cautions nurses about looking at patient notes after new

20 Mar 2024

As WRES figures show one in three female nursing staff of black and minority ethnic backgro

19 Mar 2024

NMC fitness to practise hearing finds mental health nurse Helen Powell tried to mislead the

15 Mar 2024

The flexible working request changes that will come into force in April in England, Sc

13 Mar 2024

Mental health helpline takes record number of nurse calls with bullying at work, cost of li

12 Mar 2024

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