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Racism against nurses: care home employee speaks out following hours of abuse

Care home nurse Beverly Simpson was subjected to racist slurs by a patient during a night

28 Sep 2022

Professional Standards Authority’s 2021-22 review found regulator met 17 of the 18 standar

27 Sep 2022
Now give nurses a proper pay rise: tax cut for highest earners prompts backlash

Pay rise for nurses that matches inflation now seen as a ‘political cho

27 Sep 2022
District nurses: Labour pledges to double the number who qualify each year, if elected

Shadow chancellor Rachel Reeves makes pledge, along with extra 10,000 nursing and midwifer

27 Sep 2022
NHS trusts will receive more cash to help recruit overseas nurses

Funding more than doubles to £7,000 per nurse for January-March 2023 to

26 Sep 2022

One NHS employee told campaign group they were ‘down to one meal a day’, and GMB unio

26 Sep 2022
Mini-budget: ‘Billions to bankers and nothing to nurses’

Nursing unions slam chancellor of the exchequer Kwasi Kwarteng’s priorities as mini-budget

23 Sep 2022

Thérèse Coffey’s plans to get the NHS through a difficult winter was heavily criticised on

23 Sep 2022
NMC to consider proposed changes to English language requirements for overseas nurses

Revamp would make it easier for overseas staff to join register and coincides with plan to

22 Sep 2022

Thérèse Coffey’s proposal includes support for GPs and a call for more volunteers, but cri

22 Sep 2022
Unions challenge legality of government's new strike rules

With nurses in the UK to be balloted on potential strike action, a legal challenge has bee

21 Sep 2022
Compensation in doubt for families of nurses who died from COVID-19

Some bereaved families have received £60,000 payouts but others could l

21 Sep 2022

Labour MP Dame Margaret Hodge made the comparison after reports that chancellor Kwasi Kwart

21 Sep 2022

Nurses say they felt honoured to represent the profession at funeral for

20 Sep 2022

A postal vote, delayed due to the death of Queen Elizabeth II, will now open on 6 October,

16 Sep 2022

Senior sister Laurie Street recalls moving experience attending Queen’s

16 Sep 2022

UK identified as having one in five nurses near retirement while lagging behind other Europ

15 Sep 2022

Delayed pay award will push some nurses into a different pension bracket

15 Sep 2022

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